11780: The Unknown Who Never Came Home
There are tragedies that arrive with a name.And then there are tragedies that arrive with a number. 11780. No photo album.No ID card.No mother holding a folded jacket and begging a clerk, “Please… check again.”No father pressing his forehead against a cold wall, bargaining with God for one more chance to say goodbye.No sibling screaming…
From One Year to Ten Minutes: The Hidden Magic of Getting Better
Today I was working from home, deep in my own little universe , the kind of focus where the world fades out and time stops acting normal. I was using ChatGPT and going back and forth with prompts, ideas, tasks… that “locked-in” mode where you think you’ve been working for 20 minutes but somehow half…
Iran’s Internet Blackout: 5 Days of Silence as Protest Crackdown Turns Deadly
As of Monday, January 12, 2026, Iran has been under a total communications blackout since January 8. Five days. That’s how long millions of people inside Iran have been pushed into forced silence, no internet, disrupted communications, and a country cut off from the world at the exact moment people need to document what’s happening,…
When Parents Praise Other Kids in Front of Their Own: The Lesson I Learned the Hard Way
I was listening to a psychologist recently who said something that stopped me cold: When a parent talks up other kids in front of their child, cousins, friends’ kids, classmates, especially in a repeated, “look how great they are” way, the child can quietly internalize it as:“I’m not the one you see. I’m not the…
Mani Rahnama
