Writer at Space Daily

Lachlan Brown

Co-Publisher

Lachlan Brown is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media and one of Space Daily's two publishers. He is the author of several books on Buddhism, mindfulness, and relationships, and oversees content operations and publishing strategy across the network. At Space Daily, Lachlan focuses on the Mind & Meaning pillar — the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes.

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Mind & Meaning

I’m 37 and I watched my parents retire with everything they worked for — a paid-off house, savings, good health — and then slowly, year by year, become two people who sit in separate rooms scrolling their phones because they forgot how to be interesting to each other

I used to think the hard part of retirement was the money. My parents proved me wrong without meaning to.

May 15, 2026

Psychology

Psychology suggests self-taught people may solve problems differently from most people

There's an odd question that turns up in cognitive psychology research, not often enough to be a settled field but enough to form a pattern: could learning outside the normal path shape how you approach certain kinds of problems?

May 12, 2026

Psychology

Psychology suggests people who constantly apologize for things that aren’t their fault may not just be polite — for some, it reflects learning to manage other people’s moods

Someone bumped into me at the door. Sorry. The barista handed me the wrong drink.

May 12, 2026

Human Behaviour

I stopped initiating with my closest friends for four months just to see what would happen, and the silence wasn’t cruel or pointed, it was worse than that, it was the silence of people who never noticed I was the one holding the rope

For four months I stopped initiating contact with my closest friends, and almost none of them noticed.

May 11, 2026

Psychology

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post aren’t necessarily passive — some may have quietly opted out of the pressure to perform

There is a particular kind of social media user who barely registers in the public conversation, mostly because they barely produce one.

May 11, 2026

Constellations

Why the plutonium powering Voyager could fit in a milk carton, and how that tiny lump has kept humanity’s farthest signal alive for nearly fifty years

Picture a one-litre milk carton sitting on your kitchen counter. That is, in volume terms, roughly all the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel carried aboard each…

May 10, 2026

Human Behaviour

The happiest people I know aren’t the ones who think positively about everything – they’re the ones who stopped arguing with reality and learned to build something meaningful inside the life they actually have

For a while in my twenties, I was deep into the "think positive" thing. Affirmations on the mirror.

May 9, 2026

Human Behaviour

The hardest part of having few people who truly know you may not be loneliness — it may be realizing your self-sufficiency taught some people not to reach in

A friend said something to me a couple of years ago that I think about more than I'd like to admit.

May 9, 2026

Mind & Meaning

People who can’t quite remember the last time they felt genuinely happy aren’t always in crisis — sometimes they’re just quietly overdue for something small and good

A friend said something to me a few months ago that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.

May 8, 2026

Human Behaviour

People who constantly research self-improvement but never start aren’t necessarily lazy – sometimes they’ve confused learning with changing

I spent the better part of my twenties reading about how to live well. Books on habits, focus, meaning, discipline.

May 8, 2026

Human Behaviour

People who run every morning aren’t always chasing fitness — sometimes they’re protecting one of the few hours that belongs entirely to them

It's 5:40am in Saigon. The city is just starting to stretch. The motorbikes are still rare, the food stalls are flicking on their fluorescent lights, and the…

May 6, 2026

Internet Space

The blogs that survived the AI shift weren’t the ones with the best SEO or the smartest pivots — they were the ones whose writers had something to say that an AI couldn’t have generated by accident, and most of us are still figuring out whether that includes us

If you write for a living, or even seriously for an audience, the next eighteen months will probably tell you whether what you do is something a machine can do for free.

May 6, 2026

Psychology

People who were deeply unhappy at work sometimes discover that retirement may not fix the unhappiness — it may just remove the distraction

Ever met someone who counted down the days to retirement, only to find themselves lost and restless six months later?

May 6, 2026

Human Behaviour

Six things people who grew up lower middle class may do automatically as adults that quietly reveal where they came from, even after decades of professional success

A six-figure salary doesn't erase the way you stack the dishwasher. It doesn't change the small flinch you feel when someone leaves the lights on in an empty…

May 4, 2026

Psychology

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that comes from outgrowing the life you worked very hard to build

You know that feeling when you look around at everything you've achieved and wonder why it feels so empty?

May 4, 2026

Human Behaviour

Genuinely strong people may not be the ones who power through what they do not control — they may be the ones who learned to let it sit without trying to fix it

There's a version of strength that our culture has sold us for decades. It looks like clenched teeth and a straight back.

May 2, 2026