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Ellie Kemper: I’m giving my kids a less scheduled summer. It’s made me a better parent.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ellie Kemper, who is in partnership with Pirate’s Booty. It has been edited for length and clarity. It’s July, but I’m realizing there’s still a lot of summer left. Sometimes I’m like, “How many months until school starts?” There are still a lot…
The 15 best Mediterranean restaurants in the US, according to Yelp
From creamy hummus to inventive shawarma bowls, Mediterranean cuisine continues to grow in popularity across the country. While other cuisines within the fast-casual sector saw sales slow in 2025, Mediterranean concepts experienced significant growth, Restaurant Business reported, citing Technomic…
Why You Need Less Money Than You Think To Be Happy: A $40,000 Experiment
Back on June 30, I published Summer YOLO Fund: Permission To Spend, giving myself explicit written permission to blow through $40,000 in Honolulu this summer. The $40,000 was originally earmarked for investments in private startups after attending YC demo day. However, I wasn’t able to invest in…
For the past 5 years, my husband and I have spent months at a time living with his mom. It’s been going surprisingly well.
For the past five years, my husband and I have spent several months each year living with his 85-year-old mom. Since he and I both work remotely and don’t have any children or pets, we make the most of our freedom by choosing to spend a lot of time with his mom while we can.
Watch the OpenAI Hugging Face presentation that people are calling a ‘holy %{*#^’ moment in AI
Experts in AI and tech are cursing in shock after OpenAI’s new revelations about the Hugging Face incident. Earlier this week, OpenAI employees revealed jaw-dropping details about the incident in which OpenAI agents broke out of the company’s internal testing environment and hacked into Hugging…
Grindr CEO says AI is doing work that would have required hiring 200 additional engineers
Just how much human engineering work is AI capable of delivering? Grindr put a number to it. In a letter to shareholders, Grindr CEO George Arison touted the company’s advances with AI. He gave a “conservative estimate” that engineering output increased by 2.5x between July 2025 and April 2026…
I took my first overnight Amtrak train from NYC to Miami. Here are 11 ways I made the 30-hour ride more bearable.
I could have flown from New York City to Miami in October 2021. It would have saved me 27 hours and at least $100. But as a lifelong train lover, I’d always wondered what it would be like to spend a night on the rails. So when I realized there was a 30-hour Amtrak route
Michael Burry says he’s shorting AI stars Oracle and Nebius
Michael Burry says he’s shorting Oracle and Nebius, two companies that are betting big on the AI boom. The investor of “The Big Short” fame said in a Substack post on Thursday that while researching the fourth part of a series titled “The Heretic’s Guide to AI’s Stars,” he’d shorted the two stocks…
Satellite images show the damage Ukrainian strikes have inflicted on Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries’ warehouses
Ukrainian drone strikes targeting Russia’s largest online retailer have reduced massive warehouses — from the outskirts of Moscow to the Black Sea — to rubble, new satellite imagery shows. The imagery, captured in early August by US spatial intelligence firm Vantor and obtained by Business Insider…
I spent most of my 20s traveling all over the world. By 29, I was completely over it.
I grew up in New York during the era when high schoolers had green Student Metrocards and St. Marks was a grimy strip of dollar-pizza spots, underage tongue piercings, and cheap alcohol. I loved coming of age in New York City, but when I entered my early 20s, I started itching for a change. In