Writer at Silicon Canals

Kiran Journals

Writer

Kiran is a writer at Silicon Canals with a degree in multimedia journalism. Her work focuses on the psychology and identity questions that show up across the people building technology — community-building, self-perception, and the choices that shape a career over decades. She writes primarily for the Mind pillar.

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Mind

In a survey of over 20,000 adults, the generation that scored as the loneliest wasn’t the oldest but the youngest, the people you’d least expect, and the researchers found it held true regardless of gender or race.

Our intuitions about loneliness have it backwards: the young feel it most acutely, and understanding why upends everything we thought we knew about connection in modern life.

Aug 14, 2026

Mind

Psychology says the person who appears totally fine after a devastating loss and the person who falls apart are not as different as you’d think, and the truly resilient one is rarely who you’d guess.

Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.

Aug 8, 2026

Mind

Psychology says the weird little habits that people have quietly judged you for your entire life may actually turn out to be the clearest signs of a highly intelligent mind

The quirks people roll their eyes at—fidgeting, swearing, endless doodling—might be markers of a sharper mind than conventional wisdom suggests.

Jul 31, 2026

Business

Ozempic has no owner. Not a person, not a family, not a parent company, and the reason why is stranger than the drug itself

A pharmaceutical empire worth half a trillion dollars cannot be bought, sold, or truly owned—and that structural oddity may be the only thing protecting it from becoming something far more dangerous.

Jul 22, 2026