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I quit the corporate job that asked me to do the work of 3 to become an indie game developer who travels the world
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kelsey Fiegle, an independent game developer behind Vortella’s Dress Up. She developed the game with her husband, Wes Thorburn. Their games are available on the browser gaming platform Poki. The essay has been edited for length and clarity. I…
I’m approaching 40 with no real retirement plan. My wife and I have accepted that I’ll just keep working.
I turn 40 in a few months. Every year around my birthday, my wife and I have the same conversation. We make coffee, the kids disappear into a screen for an hour, and we pull up the numbers. Between our day jobs and my freelance writing side hustle, we earn enough to pay our mortgage,
Inflation is kicking off a discount arms race between grocery stores
It looks like inflation is coming back from the dead, just in time for spooky season. The conflict in Iran and other complications are driving up energy and transportation costs, and that’s taking a toll on already-stretched household budgets. But recent food price increases aren’t yet showing up…
My baby business was pummeled by tariffs on China and Canada. It’s taught me perseverance.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Garett Senez, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Quark Baby. He lives in Vancouver. It’s been edited for length and clarity. We make baby-feeding tech and accessories. We started in 2021 with six SKUs. Now we’ve got 45. A lot of them are made in…
I moved from the US to Germany 4 years ago. Here are the 7 biggest culture shocks I’ve experienced.
After a tiring seven-hour flight from Boston to Frankfurt, a three-hour drive from the airport, and six flights of stairs to our apartment, we arrived in Düsseldorf and quickly learned air conditioning isn’t really a thing in Germany. The large tilt-and-turn windows in our place didn’t have…
OpenAI said there are 5 main ways rogue AI agents are messing with the internet
OpenAI said it had warned dozens of organizations that its AI agents may have behaved improperly on their websites. The transgressions range from using exposed passwords to posting material that could require cleanup, said OpenAI in an update on its blog on Friday. OpenAI separately confirmed in a…
Appeals court allows Pentagon to label Anthropic a national security risk
The Trump administration can blacklist AI firm Anthropic from all Pentagon contracts, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, in a decision that expands the executive branch’s authority to designate US businesses as national security risks. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Defense…
Meta smart glasses have a new AI-training opt-out
Meta’s smart glasses have a new opt-out. Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby confirmed to Business Insider that the company is changing the setting options on its camera-wielding glasses. Previously, the glasses could collect visual data for training when the wearer used AI features. Now, those users…
All 32 Robert Pattinson movies, ranked
Rotten Tomatoes score: 67% “Damsel” is a modern Western with a comedic twist, featuring Pattinson as pioneer Samuel Alabaster, a man traveling across the American Frontier to reunite with his true love, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). With Parson (David Zellner) by his side, Samuel’s journey through the…
I never tracked my teenagers on an app. Our relationships are better for it.
When I first heard of Life360, my first thought was that I knew I never wanted to use the app to track my two kids, despite its popularity among parents. Almost a decade later, I still feel the same. But it wasn’t until my oldest got his driver’s license in 2020 that I realized my