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In my 30s, my self-worth was still so connected to how much I could accomplish in a day that I named my business “do communications.”Then one night, as I sat reading my 2-year-old daughter a bedtime story while 24 weeks pregnant, I started spotting and cramping.When I called my obstetrician,…
Jai Lott, 41, began working in the coffee industry as a teenager in Australia before moving to the US and joining the coffee chain Bluestone Lane. He later became Blank Street’s first employee. After recently leaving Blank Street to move back to Australia, Lott reflected on some of the things…
Workers will likely find it hard to make ends meet again in 2027 because companies are planning to hold the line on pay raises for a fourth straight year, a recent survey shows. On average, employers plan salary increases of 3.2% based on merit and total salary increases of 3.5%…
The Big Apple is getting more unequal: A new report from New York City Comptroller Mark Levine found that income inequality worsened in the city from 2019 to 2024.That’s not entirely unexpected. The country’s financial capital has long had a wealth gap between its Wall Street bigwigs and everyday workers,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Pedersen, a 41-year-old senior principal engineer at GoTo, based in the Salt Lake City area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.As a senior principal engineer at GoTo, where I started working in 2013, I’m the technical lead…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tolgay Karabulut, the 43-year-old founder of BaklavaStory, a baklava bakery in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been running a baklava bakery, the thing I’m most passionate about, for the last five years. But the financial pressure…
Caught between two superpowers, Taiwan stands to be the world’s most dangerous flash point.The island democracy of 23.2 million people knows its precarious position. For the last four decades, the global semiconductor hub has conducted annual military drills focused on staving off a cross-strait invasion by Beijing, which considers the…
Geopolitical turmoil is pushing central banks to think harder about where they keep their gold reserves.On Wednesday, the Netherlands central bank said it had reallocated about 86 metric tons of gold from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August, “in view of increasing geopolitical unrest” and to…
There are easier ways to impress people than spending years trying to keep a company alive, says Paul Graham.”If you want to seem cool, like starting a startup is just about the least efficient way to do it,” Graham, the cofounder of Y Combinator, said in an interview with the…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced a one-year ban on AI in schools, which he said could affect 600,000 public school students. And the tech world has a lot to say.On Wednesday, Mamdani proposed a moratorium that would ban the use of AI in schools for children from 2-K…
