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I named the main character in my first novel after my foster brother. I wanted him to know he was never temporary.
I was 10 years old when my parents decided to become foster parents. I was 28, married, and with a child of my own when they took their last placement. Throughout those years, my parents adopted five of our foster siblings through the foster-to-adopt program. But not every foster sibling stayed. As…
My college-age son is independent and self-sufficient. I owe it all to traveling with him when he was young.
My toddler son wasn’t sure what to make of the situation. We’d just finished touring Costa Rica’s Manuel Antonio National Park, and were strolling through the adjacent village of Naranjito. He had his trusty stuffed toy, Grover, in tow. It wasn’t long before a group of local children spotted it and…
I ran Palantir’s rotational program for forward-deployed engineering. Here’s what rivals get wrong about FDEs.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinoo Ganesh, the 34-year-old CEO of Kepler. He spent over six years at Palantir in the 2010s and later worked at Citadel. He’s based in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Palantir had a program we called Project Frontline. The…
They were getting closer to student-loan forgiveness. Then their progress was stripped away.
Christina Quinones was two payments away from reaching the threshold for student-loan forgiveness. She’d spent nine years and 10 months pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments. Quinones, who…
My kids started school last week, and I pulled them out after the first day for a family trip. I don’t regret it.
After the islands, my husband flew in to join the trip, and we headed for Santa Barbara for a day. As we walked around, we talked about the city’s Spanish architecture, the history of colonization, and the California mission system. Connecting our visit back to the Lone Woman, who was eventually…
Meet the 52 women competing to be the next Miss America
Makalyn Heaslett, 27, has brought business to the sports world. She graduated from Auburn University, previously worked for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox, and is now an account executive for the Tennessee Titans. Heaslett is also pursuing a master’s degree in sport administration at…
I stayed in a 250-square-foot tiny home for the first time, and 10 surprises left me thinking I could live in one
The tiny home I stayed in had wheels meant to be pulled by a trailer, but it didn’t look like it had been moved recently. Located in the hidden yard of a larger home, the Airbnb stood on cinderblocks against a wall. Its wheels were not visible from the accessible side, and I thought moving
OpenAI says it will change how it informs the public when its AI agents go off the rails
OpenAI says it’s time to come clean about what happens when its AI agents go rogue. The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This “incident,” the latest in a series of uncovered…
My husband and I both survived strokes. At 69, I’m still working full time and caring for him.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Carla Bacon, 69, who is caring for her 70-year-old husband while working a full-time job in Oklahoma. Bacon’s husband has slowly been recovering from a stroke, and they’ve had to go into medical debt to make ends meet. This interview has been…
I’m a UFC fighter and dad of twins. Having a family makes my career harder.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Paddy Pimblett. It has been edited for length and clarity. Straight away, when my wife Laura got pregnant, I said, “We’re gonna have twins.” Her mom and my dad are both twins. I was right, but it turns out our girls are identical, so there’s no