Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on June 9, 2026. For a long time I genuinely believed I was non-conflictual. Easy. Calm. The kind of person who doesn't make things difficult. I held that belief about myself quite proudly, if I'm honest. It felt like a virtue. It took me a while to see that it was not a positive personality trait. It was a coping mechanism I had never questioned. I didn't think of myself as someone whose behaviour and self-image were out of sync. And that,

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on June 2, 2026. This is the last issue in the bias series. Six weeks, six quiet ways your brain has been making decisions without completely consulting you. I saved this one for last on purpose. There's a version of this bias that's easy to spot. The movie you keep watching even though you're not enjoying it, because you're already an hour in. The restaurant dinner you finish even though it's not good, because you paid for it (and God forbi

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on May 26, 2026. I am three years into my psychology degree and this is the first semester I actually know what is coming. Not because the workload changed. Because I finally built a tracker (thanks Claude 🙂). University assignments, deadlines, Euda Studio, work, social commitments, all of it in one place. And what I saw when I laid it all out honestly surprised me. I had been operating on a version of my schedule that existed only in my he

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on May 19, 2026. For about two years before Euda Studio existed, it lived in the back of my mind. I knew I wanted to write. I knew I wanted to share the things I'd been through, what I was learning in psychology, the things I wished someone had told me earlier. I had a notes app full of ideas and a folder of screenshots I had saved for "when I'm ready." And I kept telling myself the same thing: I'll start once I finish my degree. Once I actu

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on May 12, 2026. On Friday night I walked into a birthday dinner in Belgium where I didn't know a single person except my boyfriend. Everyone else had history together. Inside jokes that went back to childhood, easy banter, the kind of group that has experienced life together. And there I was, the new girlfriend, sitting down to a table of strangers who mostly knew of me before I'd said a word. The planning before the dinner had been the big

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on May 5, 2026. Think of the worst thing anyone has said to you this year. Got it? That probably took about a second. Now think of the nicest thing anyone has said to you this year. That's harder, right? That's not a flaw in your memory. That's biology doing exactly what it was designed to do. Your brain has what psychologists call a negativity bias, and the ratio is roughly five to one. One negative experience hits with about the same emoti

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on April 28, 2026. Last week I told you about the two minds running your life, System 1 and System 2. The fast one and the slow one. The autopilot and the intentional thinker. Today I want to show you the first way that fast brain shapes your life without you noticing. It's called confirmation bias. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Here's the simplest way to describe it: Your brain doesn't look at the world and then forms beliefs. It

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on April 21, 2026. Quick question before we start. How many decisions do you think you make in a day? The research estimates it somewhere around 35,000. This sounds impossible, until you realise most of them aren't really "decisions." They're mostly your brain on autopilot. Which shoe to tie first. Whether to trust the stranger's face. When to reach for your phone. Most of our lives happen on autopilot. And most of us never notice. That's wh

Originally shared in Tuesday Notes on April 14, 2026. Sunday was "Day of Good Deeds" and it got me thinking about something slightly uncomfortable: What if being a "good person" is... actually selfish? Not in a bad way. But in a biological, brain-wired kind of way. Because here's what happens when you help someone: Your brain releases dopamine (reward), oxytocin (connection), and lowers cortisol (stress). So that warm, slightly glowing feeling after doing something kind? That