This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Molly Moon Neitzel, founder and CEO of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream in Seattle. The interview has been edited for length…
This interview is based on a conversation with Alison George, 52, who lives in Raleigh. George cared for her father, who died in 2023, and is now a caregiver for…
After three months of keeping the secret, I waited nervously in the hotel lobby.When they stepped out of the elevator, I put out my hand. “I’m your guide, Ash-san.” My father went to shake it, paused, then said, “Oh, it’s…
I don’t spend much time with anyone over 50, besides my parents.As someone in my early 30s, I mostly find myself interacting with people in a similar life stage: completing postgrad degrees, building careers, and figuring adulthood out.I typically take…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino managed to catch more than 40 World Cup games in 39 days thanks to the elite’s favorite time-saving tool: a private jet.Ahead of Sunday’s final, which will be Infantino’s 44th game of the tournament, Business Insider’s…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cynthia Everett, a ride-hailing customer in New York. Business Insider verified the price differences that she described with screenshots. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.I work in group homes and provide care to people with disabilities. That involves…
My deeply southern family raised me to never talk about money. We were poor, sometimes living in our car, and occasionally hungry. But we never said it out loud.Now, as a single mother of three kids with significant medical needs, I’ve worked several jobs to pay for their childcare and…
Hannah and Drew agreed they wanted their wedding to feel intimate and personal.”I’m very sentimental,” Hannah said. “Every single thing in our house has a story to it. So I…
Jessica Salmi waited nearly an hour on hold before her call was disconnected. Jason Marques’ servicer can’t say if his next student-loan payment will be $100 or $633. Robin Binkley…
As the US military prepares for high-intensity, mass-casualty future wars, its medics are training to do something they almost never did during the Global War on Terror — remove a tourniquet from a wounded soldier.Not long ago, tourniquet training for…
Like others in wealth management, Mikael Lemieux is used to talking about taxes and investing— he’s just sometimes doing it from inside a locker room.Lemieux works in JPMorgan’s Athlete Center of Excellence, which launched in March as an educational resource…
How do you measure whether an AI is actually good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside emailed me recently with a fascinating real-world benchmark.Instead of giving AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 33-year-old Andrei Seben Fontana from Tapejara, Brazil. It has been edited for length and clarity.I traveled with my dad, uncle, and cousin to Atlanta, Miami, and New York City for the…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henry Gonzalez. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve lost nearly 350 pounds and kept the weight off. As a kid, I was never small. I was a bigger kid…
I’d just spent the morning creating AI images for my online newsletter. They were eye-catching despite my nonexistent art skills. I turned the laptop screen…
There’s a founder making waves in the AI industry that’s not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is…
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My son was 11 when he volunteered to be the boy soloist at the school Christmas concert. Nobody else would do it. That alone made me proud. He stood up there looking like a young Aled Jones, and he was…
Some United Airlines flights across the US, from New York to San Francisco, were delayed on Saturday due to a technology outage.United Airlines passengers said…
In 2002, I moved from Alexandria, Virginia, to Newport, Rhode Island, where my now-husband has family roots.I immediately fell for its stunning natural beauty, vibrant…
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Big Tech earnings season starts next week with Google, but the most important number won’t be profit or revenue. It will be how much these companies say they’ll spend on AI data centers.Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta have already laid…
A new generation of consumer social startups is emerging.From platforms focused on getting people to meet IRL to dating apps taking on Tinder or Hinge, startups are disrupting the digital social scene.Founders of these startups are tackling problems like loneliness,…
Right as I turned 30, I moved to the Washington, DC area for a new job. I had just gotten out of a serious relationship and was finally moving out of the small town I had grown up in. I…
There’s no good time to discover you’ve misread your cinema ticket, but 3:20 a.m. on a Saturday outside the Imax in central London is a particularly bad one.The film began at 4:15 a.m., not 4 a.m., as I’d previously thought.…
My 19-year-old daughter, Cameran, has been in a relationship for several years, and it has helped her grow into who she wants to be. She met her boyfriend, Casey, when they were 16 at a campground during the summer, and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rick Neuhoff, 65, a homeowner in Portland, Oregon, who rents out his indoor pool using Swimply. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Before COVID got bad, I was doing…
I’ve sent four kids — my son and three stepchildren — to college, so I thought I’d experienced almost everything in this process: campus visits, move-in and move-out, loans, roommate issues, and family weekends.As my youngest kid prepares for college,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 23-year-old Careb Bien-Aime, who is attending New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m an information systems management major at NYU, after studying at a community college.I…
Over the course of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, countless fans have come together to support their favorite teams in the energetic matchups.Those who weren’t fortunate enough to nab tickets to one of the stadiums across Canada, the US, and…
Ukrainian special operators are learning to keep a close watch on the skies when they move in to assault Russian-held trenches, as the surge in drones on the battlefield forces soldiers to constantly change how they fight.”Our training has changed,”…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I wanted to…
Two miles north of Philadelphia’s World Cup games sits a small but mighty mecca of small businesses attempting to reap the benefits of international soccer fandom.In East Passyunk, dozens of…
Warren Buffett is worried.The legendary investor called out reckless speculation in markets and the massive cost of the AI buildout during a rare interview with CNBC on Wednesday.”It’s tough to find values…
Kevin O’Leary is pushing back against a common concern in the AI data center boom: that the sprawling facilities consume too much water and put pressure on those local systems.During…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Max Votek, the cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes, an enterprise consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies implement AI. This…
A data center goes up in the middle of a California desert oasis, and in return, a nearby community gets a 32,000-square-foot bathhouse where people lounge in pools warmed by subterranean servers.Forma, a New York-based architecture studio, designed the “Pink Thermal Baths” concept in…
