Lachlan Brown is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, a digital publishing network reaching tens of millions of readers monthly. He holds a Graduate Diploma of Psychological Studies from Deakin University, though his real education came afterward: a warehouse job shifting TVs, a stretch of anxiety in his mid-twenties, and the slow discovery that studying the mind is not the same as learning how to live well. He started experimenting with Buddhist principles during breaks at the warehouse and eventually began writing about what he was learning. That writing became Hack Spirit, a widely read personal development site, and his book Hidden Secrets of Buddhism became a bestseller. His work breaks down complex ideas into frameworks people can apply immediately, whether they are navigating a career change, a difficult relationship, or the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Lachlan splits his time between Singapore and Saigon. He writes about high-performance routines, decision-making under pressure, digital innovation, and the intersection of Eastern philosophy with modern life. His perspective comes from having built things from scratch, failed at some of them, and learned that clarity comes from practice, not theory.
I used to use solitude and loneliness interchangeably. Two words for the same thing. Being on your own. Somewhere in my thirties I realised they weren't the same thing at all. They can look similar from a distance. Both involve being alone, or feeling alone. Both happen quietly, without ...Read More
For most of my twenties, I thought being articulate meant being able to use the right vocabulary at the right moment. I'd read a lot. I'd picked up the phrases. I knew when to say "nuanced" and "trajectory" and "tension between" and "the broader pattern." In meetings I could ...Read More
I've started to notice a particular kind of loneliness that doesn't look like loneliness from the outside. The person has a family. A long marriage, maybe. A job where people know their name. They show up to birthdays, they answer texts, they're surrounded by people who care about them ...Read More
The most socially successful person in any room can still be the loneliest one in the car on the way home. They have the texts, the invitations, the warm reception when they walk in. They also have a quiet, persistent feeling that if they disappeared for six months, ...Read More
A man I’ll call David ran a meeting I sat in on a few years back, in a glass-walled conference room in Singapore that smelled like burnt coffee and air conditioning. He wasn’t the loudest person there. He wasn’t the funniest. When the most senior executive in the ...Read More
There’s a kind of family distance people don’t talk about very honestly. Not the dramatic kind. Not the slammed-door argument. Not the parent being cut off completely. Not the explosive falling out where everyone knows what happened and nobody agrees on who started it. I’m talking about something quieter. The adult child ...Read More