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Nato Lagidze

Nato began writing for Ideapod in 2021 and now serves as its Editor-in-Chief, guiding the publication’s editorial direction around independent thinking, self-awareness, and ways people make sense of their lives. With an academic background in psychology, she investigates emotional bonds people form with places. She dreams of creating an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.

Worrying about whether you’re happy enough is one of the most reliable ways to ensure you won’t be. This is not a paradox. It is a mechanism.

  • 6 min read

Philosophers have a precise word for the state you enter when you forget yourself entirely. It is not happiness. It is closer to what happiness is trying to become.

  • 4 min read

Research shows that labelling content as AI-generated makes people rate it as lower quality — even when the content is identical to the human version

  • 3 min read

Nobody teaches you the actual math behind success — here is the formula most high performers stumbled onto by accident and almost nobody else ever finds

  • 4 min read

The difference between knowing yourself and performing an identity

  • 4 min read

Nobody tells you that the same mechanism pulling you back to social media is also pulling you toward consuming more information — and once you see the loop, you cannot unsee it

  • 5 min read

The four skills that will still matter in a world where AI does most of the cognitive work aren’t the ones being taught in any business school curriculum right now

  • 5 min read

Quote of the day by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

  • 4 min read
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