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Ruxandra Mazilu

Full Stack Marketer, Brand Builder, and Curious Human digging into what makes us wonder.

#56: What If Not Knowing Is Exactly the Point?

Apr 12, 2026

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8 min read

#56: What If Not Knowing Is Exactly the Point?

This week: why uncertainty feels like a threat, what leaders lose by pretending otherwise, and how to hold a dream and its obstacles at the same time.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#55: Is the Sun Deciding How You Feel?

Apr 5, 2026

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7 min read

#55: Is the Sun Deciding How You Feel?

This week: why your body follows the sun, how climate change is reshaping how we think, and the town that refused to live without the sun.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#54: Does the Language You Speak Change Who You Are?

Mar 29, 2026

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#54: Does the Language You Speak Change Who You Are?

This week: why your personality shifts when you switch languages, what disappears when a language dies, and a time-travel experiment through 1,000 years of English.h.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#53: Why Does a Poem Give You Chills?

Mar 22, 2026

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#53: Why Does a Poem Give You Chills?

This week: the neuroscience behind poetry's physical grip, a poem that rewrote French law, and the surprisingly dark stories hiding inside nursery rhymes.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#52: Why Are We So Bad at Sleep?

Mar 15, 2026

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6 min read

#52: Why Are We So Bad at Sleep?

This week: why sleep became a luxury travel category, the science linking your bedtime to your mental health, and the viral technique that tricks your brain into switching off.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#51: Is Walking the Most Underrated Thing You'll Do Today?

Mar 8, 2026

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#51: Is Walking the Most Underrated Thing You'll Do Today?

This week: why 20,000 steps might be the most productive hours of your day, how fast walking beats the gym in 15 minutes, and the forgotten art of going nowhere in particular.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#50: Why is everyone secretly obsessed with planes?

Mar 1, 2026

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#50: Why is everyone secretly obsessed with planes?

This week: the plane spotter who helped guard Air Force One, the rituals that make flying feel survivable, and Dubai's flying taxi that's almost ready for boarding.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#49: What makes nostalgia so powerful?

Feb 22, 2026

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#49: What makes nostalgia so powerful?

This week: why your brain is hardwired to crave the past, the comfort of rewatching old shows and playing retro games, and the false panic behind every 'kids these days' complaint.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#48: What can we learn from Olympians?

Feb 15, 2026

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#48: What can we learn from Olympians?

This week: why mental toughness is more than motivation, the hidden cost of peak performance, and the Winter Olympics facing an existential climate threat.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#47: Why do we create beautiful things?

Feb 8, 2026

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#47: Why do we create beautiful things?

This week: why constraints make you more creative, the reason art feels beautiful when you see yourself in it, and the troubling truth behind historic anatomical illustrations.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#46: Should we talk to strangers? If yes, why?

Feb 1, 2026

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7 min read

#46: Should we talk to strangers? If yes, why?

This week: why we systematically underestimate the joy of talking to strangers, how AI agents are socializing better than we are, and why young adults are the loneliest group in Britain.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#45: Why Should We Work To Get Out of Our Bubbles?

Jan 25, 2026

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#45: Why Should We Work To Get Out of Our Bubbles?

This week: why our brains evolved to avoid uncertainty at all costs, how AI learns to amplify the biases we already have, and the word for people who refuse to admit they've been wrong all along.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#44: What's Really In Our Control?

Jan 18, 2026

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#44: What's Really In Our Control?

This week: why critical ignoring is your most important skill in 2026, the Stoic principle that shapes happier lives, and the cosmic events that remind us some things just happen regardless.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#43: Why Are We Focused on Living Longer Instead of Living Better?

Jan 11, 2026

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#43: Why Are We Focused on Living Longer Instead of Living Better?

This week: the 80-year Harvard study proving relationships outlive longevity hacks, why one doctor still plans to die at 75, and the biohacker who claims immortality by 2039.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#42: New Year. Now What?

Jan 4, 2026

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7 min read

#42: New Year. Now What?

This week: the psychology of motivation without willpower, AI's shift from hype to pragmatism, and a rogue planet drifting through the Einstein desert.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#41: What Gets Carried Forward?

Dec 28, 2025

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#41: What Gets Carried Forward?

This week: why riding emerging waves matters more than perfection, conducting a purposeful year-end review, and how purpose is something you form rather than find.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#40: Why Do We Need Rituals at the Edge of the Year?

Dec 21, 2025

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#40: Why Do We Need Rituals at the Edge of the Year?

This week: appreciating imperfection when nothing feels perfect, the year-end ritual that replaces burnout with closure, and why cabbage is having a cultural moment.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#39: What Are You Holding Onto That's Holding You Back?

Dec 14, 2025

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#39: What Are You Holding Onto That's Holding You Back?

This week: why forgetting makes you smarter, the philosopher who found freedom in letting go, and why governments want five years of your digital past.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#38: What's Hiding in Plain Sight?

Dec 7, 2025

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#38: What's Hiding in Plain Sight?

This week: why deep listening reveals what arguments can't, the women scientists erased from history, and how analytics companies track every move you make.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#37: When Do You Truly Become an Adult?

Nov 30, 2025

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#37: When Do You Truly Become an Adult?

This week: why your brain isn't fully adult until 32, how Gen Z is rewriting the rules of financial independence, and the disappearing midlife crisis that's been replaced by quarter-life despair.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#36: How Do You Decide When Nothing Is Certain?

Nov 23, 2025

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#36: How Do You Decide When Nothing Is Certain?

This week: why annoyances compound when ignored, the paradox of optimistic (and pessimistic) business leaders, and the 100 life decisions psychologists say we dread most.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#35: What If Music Is Your Brain's Favorite Time Machine?

Nov 16, 2025

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8 min read

#35: What If Music Is Your Brain's Favorite Time Machine?

This week: why teenage songs never leave your brain, the neuroscience of creative breakthroughs, and the AI artist that fooled 97% of listeners.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#34: Is Being Easily Distracted The New Normal?

Nov 9, 2025

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#34: Is Being Easily Distracted The New Normal?

This week: the hidden cost of "AI brain rot," what those weird floaty things in your eye really are, and the case for treating your guilty pleasures as necessary maintenance.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#33: The Structural Advantage

Nov 2, 2025

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#33: The Structural Advantage

This week: why comparing your messy "inside" to someone's neat "outside" is pointless, the engineering masterpiece that proves constraints create genius, and the long-term vision that made a country nearly 100% renewable.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#32: The Hidden Architecture of Identity

Oct 26, 2025

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8 min read

#32: The Hidden Architecture of Identity

This week: the illusion that your mind is a clean room, how rock carving can help you understand more about your surroundings, and the history of the world's most viewed photo.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
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