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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity.People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that wasn’t the case.I moved from Korea to Toronto in 2020…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Lyktey, 34, a New Yorker who grew up in Wantagh, on Long Island, but moved to Fort Wright, Kentucky, five miles outside Cincinnati. He now works as the chief of lab operations at Gravity Diagnostics and has lived in Kentucky…
Most summers, I try to pack in as much travel as possible with my kids. My children have dual citizenship, and it’s important to me that they spend time in Europe and connect with their roots. I enjoy showing them the rest of the world, too.In past years, my kids…
Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane.Early one June morning, before Evelyn, 17, and Olivia, 19, left for their summer jobs,…
A “Black Swan” investor says to guard against disasters — but take risks too.Mark Spitznagel has built his career on protecting his clients’ portfolios against extreme, rare, and unpredictable events known as “black swans” or “tail risks.”Yet the Universa Investments founder and chief told Business Insider over coffee in London…
The 2,400-seat Miami theater lit up like a Coldplay concert when the QR code dropped at the Miss USA pageant. A sea of phones — held up by supportive parents, partners, and past pageant queens — trained their cameras on the massive barcode being projected from center stage, ready to…
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response.On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brigid Kemmerer, a New York Times bestselling author of young-adult and romantasy novels. Kemmerer, based in Baltimore and now 48 years old, has worked as a full-time author for the past 10 years and has published at least two dozen books.…
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode.A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange.Austin Chen, the founder of Manifund, a grantmaker tied to the effective altruism movement, wrote…
Sharpe said pearls are trending this fall season, but with a fresher, less traditional feel. She told BI these iterations will be supersized, multistrand, more irregular, and natural-looking.”I think the more unique the shape is, the better,” Sharpe said.She also noted there are a variety of ways to wear pearls…
