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Joe Flannery didn’t have the luxury of a honeymoon period at Good Good. His new job as president started just as the YouTube group plunged into controversy.Good Good, one of YouTube’s biggest golf channels at 2.3 million subscribers, has seen mounting fallout from an ad with Callaway that was criticized…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Claude comes in peace.”We’re not interested in destroying anyone,” Amodei said on CNBC earlier this week. “We think of this as a very positive sum thing, right?”With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff seated beside him, Amodei sought to put to rest Wall Street’s belief that Anthropic…
Just weeks after my 28th birthday, I arrived in Burgenland, a wine region south of Vienna, to work at a natural wine domaine.Fresh off of quitting my full-time job in California, I planned to travel indefinitely, hopping from country to country by way of the wine harvest.I didn’t have the…
The beleaguered CEO of Good Good just publicly blasted Callaway after the golf company ended its partnership with the YouTuber group over a controversial ad.”Interesting that @CallawayGolf asks us to make an ad then approves it then asks us to take the fall then drops us in a coordinated media…
As an obsessive traveler, I’ve always been fascinated by the world of hospitality.Throughout my career in public relations, I was fortunate to work for some of the world’s best hotel brands, which gave me a behind-the-scenes look into what it takes to provide an exceptional guest experience.Now, I’m an Airbnb…
At a time when layoffs, low hiring rates, and a culture of mass applying have contributed to a frenzied job market, taking a career break could be one of your riskiest decisions.But what if it ends up being the best?Government data shows that while career breaks are relatively common —…
Working at OpenAI may look good for your résumé. For your under-eyes? The company’s researchers are not so sure.A tongue-in-cheek joke by Thibault Sottiaux, the engineering lead on OpenAI’s Codex, about the AI lab’s breakneck pace has sparked a mini before-and-after trend among colleagues — complete with changed hairstyles and…
Last week, when Meta went on trial over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict kids, I hunkered down for weeks of testimony from executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Just eight days later, it was over. On Wednesday, Meta agreed to settle for up to $18 billion, cutting short…
President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America, and it’s making waves on the internet.After tense trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed and the US imposed new 50% tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian goods, Trump turned to another tool in his arsenal: rebranding.On Thursday,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with James Strawn, a 56-year-old former senior software quality engineer in Colorado, who worked at Adobe for 25 years before being laid off in June 2025. After a difficult job search, he landed on a completely new career path: being a school…
