Finance
I left my $250,000 Meta job to coach startup founders. I work fewer hours, have less stress, and still make a good living.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Shen, the 40-year-old founder of Refactor Labs based in Brooklyn. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’m the founder and CEO of Refactor Labs, an executive coach, and a cofounder conflict expert. I spent two years at Etsy as a…
Keke Palmer says she makes time to cry alone: ‘It’s a release’
Between acting, hosting, podcasting, and raising her son, Keke Palmer, 32, says she has developed her own ways to recharge. “I cry actually alone quite a lot,” Palmer said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast. Palmer said she’s an easy crier and sometimes simply decides…
Taiwan is using Frankenstein-style tanks made with old Patton designs to guard the gateway to its capital
TAIPEI — About a four-minute walk from the metro station, Taiwanese troops slipped into the Tamsui River on an American-made M3 amphibious bridging vehicle, dropping pontoons and clusters of barrels rigged to explode. On the shore, six retirees in gym slacks and tennis shoes were winding down their…
What Berkshire’s huge wager on Alphabet says about Warren Buffett’s post-CEO role
Warren Buffett has left the stage at Berkshire Hathaway, but he may still be pulling strings from behind the curtain. The legendary investor, who ended his six-decade run as Berkshire’s CEO at the turn of the year, is likely responsible for building the company a huge Alphabet stake from scratch in…
I run a high-end concierge company for the wealthy. Here are 7 unique services clients pay me to handle.
This as-told-to slideshow is based on a conversation with Abbie Manning, 30, owner of SW VIP Concierge, a luxury concierge and lifestyle management company based in South Devon, UK. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I worked as a superyacht stewardess across Europe for over five…
David Ellison’s Paramount is hiring 2 more former Google execs
Paramount Skydance has a favorite company to hire from: Google. David Ellison’s company has brought on two more former Google execs, product chief Dane Glasgow told employees in a memo on Tuesday afternoon. Nick Lee, who was the corporate vice president of Microsoft AI, is Paramount’s new EVP of…
Hayden Panettiere once wrote in her memoir that working on ‘Nashville’ was like diving ‘headfirst into my own hell’
Hayden Panettiere once wrote that starring on “Nashville” and reading the show’s script was like “looking in a funhouse mirror.” In her 2026 memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” published three months before her August 16 death, Panettiere wrote that it felt like her “personal problems were writing…
The best reading order to catch up on all 16 of Sarah J. Maas’ books before ‘A Court of Splintered Harmony’ comes out
Sarah J. Maas is officially back. On Monday, Maas announced the titles of her two coming “A Court of Thorns and Roses” novels. “A Court of Splintered Harmony” will be released on October 27, 2026, and “A Court of Forgotten Melody” comes out January 12, 2027. The two books will form a single…
Handshake AI wants to pay you up to $30K for work documents that you own
Your old work pages could turn into cold hard cash — if you own the rights to them. In the latest example of the AI industry’s hunger for training data, Handshake AI hiring a Professional Document Contributor, promising up to $30,000 for “high-quality written documents.” To qualify, applicants…
The push for AI watermarks is spawning a new wave of tools to remove them
Anthropic wants to make AI-generated text easier to identify. Some software developers are already building tools designed to make those labels disappear. The AI company said last week the “imperceptible watermark” on text produced by certain Claude models would travel with it when copied and…