Essay·11 min
Sleep that does not have to be earned
A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.
Nou Heravi
Briefing|Sunday, 13 September 2026Technology is the subject · Psychology is the lens
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Essay · 12 min · 22 Aug 2026
The age a model assigns you
When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.
By Nou Heravi, Editor
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Lightweight spiking neural networks for human activity recognition on resource-constrained edge wearable devices
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
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An explainable multi-modal graph learning framework with attention-based GCN-GAT for EEG-based depression detection
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
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Sleep that does not have to be earned
A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.
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The classroom without a pocket
Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
Deep Chamber
Long-form sense-making — depth without noise.
Essay·11 min
The classroom without a pocket
Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
Nou Heravi
Essay·8 min
The mind that outsources thinking
When fluent machines answer before we finish forming the question, judgment does not vanish overnight. It thins — rehearsal by rehearsal — until expertise becomes a feeling we can no longer check.
Nou Heravi
Briefs
Short features — one crystalline insight each.
Brief·3 min
Lightweight spiking neural networks for human activity recognition on resource-constrained edge wearable devices
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
Brief·3 min
An explainable multi-modal graph learning framework with attention-based GCN-GAT for EEG-based depression detection
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
Brief·6 min
The inner voice that is no longer only yours
After enough fluent completions, some people notice a stranger’s cadence in thought. That report is phenomenological. Inner-speech science is older, and it does not yet include this residue as a finding.
Brief·6 min
Motivation is not a mood — it is a circuit people will sell
Animal work on orexin and persistence is real. The leap from rat breakpoint to a human product is not.
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Light foresight from current construct pressure — working hypotheses, not predictions.
If this continues
Pressure on attention
Recent coverage clusters around attention. If product and research trajectories continue, expect design defaults and everyday interfaces to reshape this system further. The desk is watching evidence strength, not hype.
attention
If this continues
Secondary signal: executive function
A quieter but rising thread concerns executive function. Second-order effects often arrive here before they become headlines.
executive function