Finance
After cleaning homes professionally for 10 years, I swear by these 7 affordable supplies from Dollar Tree
Back in college, a friend of mine was working as a cleaner. One day, her partner couldn’t help out with a client, so she asked if I’d be willing to step in. I enjoyed the work so much that I later started my own small cleaning-and-organizing business, which I ran for 10 years. During this
I never expected my mom to die at 61. I’m grateful we had the hard conversations first.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jermaine Ee, founder of HeirLight. It has been edited for length and clarity. Even when I was living in New York, I frequently flew home to visit my parents and three younger siblings in LA. When the pandemic made travel harder, I realized that…
I don’t let my kids attend sleepovers. The risk just isn’t worth it.
When my youngest child was 6, a new neighbor and her daughter came over to play. The mom enthusiastically offered to “return the favor” by hosting my daughter at her home for a sleepover. I knew this child had multiple older siblings, some of whom spent weeks going back and forth between their…
Full-time pilots put $150,000 into an RV side hustle. They explain how it generates revenue and share unexpected challenges.
After their own mediocre RV rental experience, Carrie and Brian Smith saw a business opportunity: offer travelers a more polished version of RV living. The Dallas-based couple, both full-time airline pilots, had already been exploring side-hustle ideas as they approached the industry’s mandatory…
These 40-something founders say they have something the AI kids don’t
Amir Elaguizy has books about neural networks from the ’60s. The 42-year-old serial entrepreneur doesn’t believe that being younger means you’re more AI-native. Elaguizy emailed with Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” before Hinton started working at Google. He’s been learning about AI’s roots…
My husband and I took a cruise in Europe while our kids were at camp. It was unsettling at first not to have parenting duties.
When my husband and I boarded a flight to Europe earlier this summer, we were embarking on our first major trip alone since becoming parents 12 years ago. I knew it would be an adjustment to travel without our twins. What I hadn’t quite realized was that the hard part happened before we even left
Super savers share the strategies to keep more than 50% of their income without feeling deprived
Saving more than half your income doesn’t have to mean living in your parents’ basement and subsisting on ramen. “A lot of the old FIRE content is focused on hyper-frugality: Sell your car and bike 20 miles in a snowstorm to work. Live in a storage unit,” Cody Berman, the author of “Retire by 30,”
I spent 15 years chasing my dream of designing planes. I gave it up to help revive rural Japan.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daisuke Fujii, the cofounder of Farm & Firm Company, a Japanese consulting firm that helps farmers and rural communities generate new income through agritourism, hospitality, and business development. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I…
Gen Z is bringing pen and paper back to the workplace
As companies spend billions on AI in the race to automate work, a surprising office trend is taking hold among the youngest generation of employees. Gen Z workers are embracing the decidedly low-tech: premium notebooks, colorful desk pads, handwritten notes, and the humble Post-it. Gen Z office…
Rhaenyra in ‘House of the Dragon’ is starting to sound a lot like Daenerys in ‘Game of Thrones.’ The showrunner says that’s the point.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for the “House of the Dragon” season three finale. Daenerys Targaryen is born nearly two centuries after the events of “House of the Dragon,” yet she haunts the narrative almost as much as the characters onscreen. There are echoes of Daenerys’ self-righteous rise to power…