Finance
United Airlines CEO says he sleeps 8 ½ hours a night and limits meetings to ‘no more than 4 hours a day’
Don’t think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck. “If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we’re just going to talk about it, but you’re not going to read slides to me,” Kirby told Semafor’s “CEO Signal” podcast. Kirby is
Indeed’s CEO wants to break this ‘vicious cycle’ in hiring
Hisayuki Idekoba hears regularly about how broken hiring can feel. As head of the job platform Indeed, job seekers tell him they have applied to roles only to get nothing back, while employers complain about unresponsive candidates and surging application volumes, thanks in part to AI bots that…
I replaced my boss with AI
My boss had a proposal: It was time to replace him with AI. It was late spring, following months of AI-attributed layoffs across the economy that left workers wondering: Am I next? In the name of journalism, my editor and direct manager, Ryan Kailath, agreed to be a guinea pig. I’m an AI skeptic…
A single mom works as a makeup artist and NYC real estate broker. Here’s how she affords life in the city.
Working in NYC real estate, brokering deals for the rich and famous in one of the most desirable property markets in the world, is a “glamorous” business. Yet, for broker Violetta Kruglyak, that does not translate to a glamorous life. For her, breaking into the real estate world is defined by one…
Meet the NYC parents who feel like their toddlers got into Harvard
When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with 2,000 seats in a handful…
My husband and I have a weekly marriage check-in. We use the same questions each time.
After having a baby last summer, my husband and I realized something: by the time the house was quiet and our baby was asleep, neither of us had much energy left to talk about anything. We weren’t fighting often, but little frustrations had a way of lingering because there never seemed to be a…
My family of 4 visits the same vacation spot multiple times a year. I hope my kids look back on it fondly.
When I was a child, the Jersey Shore was my magical place. My great-grandmother, her siblings, and a few other relatives lived there in a high-rise apartment building, so every summer we’d visit for a week. Looking out from the balcony, I believed the ocean went on forever. On the bottom floor, the…
Moving from New York to Kentucky gave me an affordable life I love — and retiring at 55 is now on the table
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 for seven…
‘It’s going to hurt’: How a surging student-loan payment is reshaping a family’s future
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…
Miss USA’s new playbook
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 vote for their…