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Consumers are tightening their belts — just not on food delivery
Consumers are trying to save money — just not on $30 delivery burritos. DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart all posted strong sales growth in their quarterly results earlier this month, showing that consumers are still willing to shell out for groceries and restaurant food delivered to their homes…
I’m an executive coach. I tell clients not to spend Sunday night preparing for work.
Shane Arthur, an executive coach in Raleigh, North Carolina, advises clients to avoid working on Sundays — and to start their workweeks by avoiding meetings on Monday mornings. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. I believe in startup and shutdown routines for your week. On Monday…
The modern parenting throuple
Molly and Sean Morse agree that they want their 5-year-old daughter to be ready for the AI future. By night they’re tech-free, telling stories with her, building fantasy worlds and characters and letting her imagination roam. Then in the morning, she uses an AI image generator like Midourney to…
Inside New Yorkers’ hopes and fears over Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores
Phillip Grant is feeling optimistic. He thinks he’s the best man to operate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run supermarkets. Along with being a former city economic development executive and construction entrepreneur, he’s a New Yorker who’s shocked that an orange costs $2 at his local gas station…
A mysterious free AI model is impressing developers. And nobody knows who made it.
A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work…
America’s largest association of cattle ranchers says Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is ‘undermining’ farmers
America’s largest trade association of cattle producers says President Donald Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is political theater. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle producers and feeders, said on Friday that the strategy would do more harm than…
At China’s robot Olympics, the finish line comes with a padded wall and a stretcher
The robot uprising may have to wait. For now, the machines are still running headfirst into walls, both literal and metaphorical. That reality was on grand display at the second iteration of the World Humanoid Robot Games, a five-day competition held in China where robots compete in Olympic-style…
Forget longevity buzzwords like Zone 2 and VO2 max, a top personal trainer says. Focus on this simple metric.
What do the terms Zone 2 and VO2 max have in common? According to the celebrity personal trainer Harley Pasternak, they are irrelevant to the majority of people, the health-conscious among us included. If your goal is to be healthy physically and mentally, you are far better off focusing on a…
Breaking Down My $159,000 Salary in Brooklyn, New York
Devonte Duncan, 27, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a software engineer at a tech company, earning $159,000 a year. After reaching a six-figure salary, his spending quickly caught up with his income and led him into debt. Now, Devonte takes a much more deliberate approach to his finances…
Uber driver says these 3 behaviors will get passengers a 1-star rating
Nothing annoys Uber driver Levi Spires more than a passenger who makes him wait. Riders don’t have to make conversation or tip to earn five stars from Spires, who said he gives most passengers the top rating. If a rider keeps him waiting without an explanation or apology, that’s different. “That’s…