culture
When job-hopping, make sure not to accidentally bring your old company’s culture along for the ride, said Bob Baxley, a former director of design at Apple.”I think my own particular mistake, and I’ve seen this with some other Apple executives as well, is we went directly from Apple — I…
Customers say they feel like they are being asked to leave a tip at more places, and some are fighting back.About 33% of people surveyed by Morning Consult said that they’re expected to tip more, either more often or a greater amount, than they were five years ago.They’re not imagining…
I had always wanted to live outside the US — to experience the world and myself in a new way. But when the opportunity finally came, I didn’t realize how difficult it would be.In 2017, I was 46 and dating a French man. After visiting the city of lights several times,…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is riding high on the pro-defense tech wave largely ushered in by the Trump administration.On Monday’s earnings call, Karp attributed the company’s first quarter performance to “an unvarnished cacophony of the combination of 20 years of investment and a massive cultural shift in the US,” he…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Katie Passarello, a public relations contractor living in Cariño, Spain. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Staying long after the food or drink is finished to sit around a table and share conversations is at the heart of…
