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I went from earning $173,000 a year to making $6 one month. I don’t regret quitting.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heigi Jeong. It has been edited for length and clarity. People often assume that I quit my six-figure job in product design because of severe burnout or an existential crisis, but that wasn’t the case. I moved from Korea to Toronto in 2020 as an…
Moving from New York to Kentucky gave me an affordable life I love — and retiring at 55 is now on the table
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Lyktey, 34, a New Yorker who grew up in Wantagh, on Long Island, but moved to Fort Wright, Kentucky, five miles outside Cincinnati. He now works as the chief of lab operations at Gravity Diagnostics and has lived in Kentucky for seven…
I let my 15-year-old fly home alone from Europe. It didn’t go smoothly, but I’m still glad she earned the independence.
Most summers, I try to pack in as much travel as possible with my kids. My children have dual citizenship, and it’s important to me that they spend time in Europe and connect with their roots. I enjoy showing them the rest of the world, too. In past years, my kids have had fun traveling
‘It’s going to hurt’: How a surging student-loan payment is reshaping a family’s future
Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane. Early one June morning, before Evelyn, 17, and Olivia, 19, left…
‘Black Swan’ investor Mark Spitznagel says you should guard against disaster — but take risks too
A “Black Swan” investor says to guard against disasters — but take risks too. Mark Spitznagel has built his career on protecting his clients’ portfolios against extreme, rare, and unpredictable events known as “black swans” or “tail risks.” Yet the Universa Investments founder and chief told…
Miss USA’s new playbook
The 2,400-seat Miami theater lit up like a Coldplay concert when the QR code dropped at the Miss USA pageant. A sea of phones — held up by supportive parents, partners, and past pageant queens — trained their cameras on the massive barcode being projected from center stage, ready to vote for their…
A developer emailed Claude Code’s creator about AI slop. Boris Cherny wrote back.
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as
I used to write between lunch breaks at my corporate job. Now my income as a best-selling romantasy author supports my family
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brigid Kemmerer, a New York Times bestselling author of young-adult and romantasy novels. Kemmerer, based in Baltimore and now 48 years old, has worked as a full-time author for the past 10 years and has published at least two dozen books. The…
Charity founder says he secretly gave FTX fraud figure Caroline Ellison a job
It looks like Caroline Ellison has emerged from stealth mode. A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange. Austin Chen, the founder of Manifund, a grantmaker tied to the effective…
5 jewelry trends that are in right now and 4 that are out, according to jewelers and stylists
Sharpe said pearls are trending this fall season, but with a fresher, less traditional feel. She told BI these iterations will be supersized, multistrand, more irregular, and natural-looking. “I think the more unique the shape is, the better,” Sharpe said. She also noted there are a variety of ways…