Writer at Solar Daily

Lachlan Brown

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Lachlan Brown is a co-founder of Brown Brothers Media and one of Solar Daily's two publishers. He is the author of Hidden Secrets of Buddhism: How to Live with Maximum Impact and Minimum Ego, and oversees content operations and publishing strategy across the network. At Solar Daily, Lachlan focuses on the Mind & Meaning pillar — the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes.

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Psychology

The happiest way to get older may be to stop measuring yourself against a version of you that no longer exists

Getting older goes better when your younger self stops being the yardstick. Here is a gentler way to judge your days.

Jul 26, 2026

Psychology

Loneliness researchers keep arriving at the same uncomfortable result: the physical cost of feeling unseen tracks closer to smoking than to any social variable anyone expected, and it shows up most clearly in people who are surrounded by others all day long

The deadliest form of isolation isn't being alone—it's feeling invisible in a crowd.

Jul 26, 2026