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Ruxandra Mazilu

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

#65: What's Hiding in Your Digital Footprint?

Jun 14, 2026

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4 min read

#65: What's Hiding in Your Digital Footprint?

This week: the government that hid a data breach for two years, the health data sold online without a hack, and how to check if you've been pwned.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#64: Why Playing More Might Be the Most Serious Thing You Do

Jun 7, 2026

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4 min read

#64: Why Playing More Might Be the Most Serious Thing You Do

This week: why mischief is a moral virtue, what childhood friendships teach us about adult ones, and the neuroscience that explains why play is the most serious thing you can do.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#63: What Did We Lose When Social Media Stopped Being Social?

May 31, 2026

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4 min read

#63: What Did We Lose When Social Media Stopped Being Social?

This week: the quiet exit from platforms that promised connection, why banning teenagers misses the point, and the misinformation arms race nobody can win.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#62: What Happens When the Jesters Go Silent?

May 24, 2026

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#62: What Happens When the Jesters Go Silent?

This week: why satire is democracy's oldest immune response, what Stephen Colbert's finale reveals about free speech, and what we lose when the court jester is shown the door.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#61: Where Do Your Best Ideas Truly Come From?

May 17, 2026

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#61: Where Do Your Best Ideas Truly Come From?

This week: why constraints make you more creative, what happens in the brain right before a breakthrough, and why human-made is becoming the new rare.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#60: Is Tea the World's Perfect Bridge Between Tradition and Health?

May 10, 2026

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#60: Is Tea the World's Perfect Bridge Between Tradition and Health?

This week: how tea connects us across cultures while nourishing our bodies, why the matcha boom is just the beginning, what the science says about tea's health benefits, and what it teaches us about slowing down.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#59: Why Does Every Country Pause Differently?

May 3, 2026

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#59: Why Does Every Country Pause Differently?

This week: the banker who invented the long weekend, why a Mexican battle became a global party, and the country that takes 35 days off a year.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#58: Is Your Brain Negotiating With Color Right Now?

Apr 26, 2026

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4 min read

#58: Is Your Brain Negotiating With Color Right Now?

This week: why blue lowers your heart rate, what your wardrobe says before you speak, and the hidden grammar behind every great film.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#57: What Are We Missing When We Skip Small Talk?

Apr 19, 2026

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4 min read

#57: What Are We Missing When We Skip Small Talk?

This week: why we're terrible at predicting how much we'll enjoy a conversation, how Finland built a culture out of silence, and what Gen Z's telephobia says about the rest of us.

Ruxandra Mazilu
Ruxandra Mazilu
#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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7 min read

#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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7 min read

#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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7 min read

#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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8 min read

#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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7 min read

#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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8 min read

#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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7 min read

#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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8 min read

#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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8 min read

#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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8 min read

#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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7 min read

#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
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