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Moving from the suburbs of New Jersey to New York City in my 20s felt like a long-earned milestone. And for a while, I loved it.Although my 9-to-5 kept me busy, I spent a lot of time trying out restaurants and coffee shops, attending events where I could meet creatives,…
Growing up in Florida, I always pictured a future in New York City.I attended law school in Manhattan, then worked my way up the corporate ladder after graduation. Big Law was never my dream, but it felt like a stable career path.Over time, though, I started realizing that working as…
Rupert Murdoch chased the TV Guide of the Future for years. He spent billions trying to build an on-screen map for digital television before giving up.Now his son Lachlan looks like he’s making it happen by buying Roku in a $22 billion deal.On paper, Lachlan’s transaction seems like the thing…
When I graduated from college in 2021, all I cared about was moving abroad.As a Spanish and communications student, I was supposed to spend a full year studying abroad in Seville, Spain — something I had looked forward to for years.Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, I had to leave…
Last summer, I planned what I thought would be an epic adventure. An amazing trip with my husband and four kids for my 50th birthday. My sister and her family decided to come too, and then my brother and my mom.We planned to start in Spain, travel up through France,…
I spent over 10 years at Meta, joining in 2012 when the company was still called Facebook and the newly acquired Instagram team occupied just two rows of stand-up desks in a half-filled Menlo Park campus.As a global director, I helped lead a creative group launching campaigns with Marvel, Disney,…
Ten years ago, my husband, Scott, and I moved to West Virginia and started building an off-grid cabin. Loading audio narration… We knew we didn’t want a tiny house, but we also wanted to keep costs and build time as low as possible. We quickly settled on a happy medium:…
When my parents and I immigrated from Liberia to the US in the 1990s, our first home was my grandmother’s two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts.Her house became a refuge as my parents found their footing in a new country. Living with her gave them childcare help and the breathing…
Anthropic’s bid to build self-improving AI agents just spawned a new, anthropomorphic technique dubbed “dreaming.” Loading audio narration… The high-flying AI lab announced the new process at its developer conference on Wednesday. “Dreaming” is part of Anthropic’s push to overhaul software engineering and other knowledge work with increasingly autonomous tools.…
After my husband and I bought our dream house — a 2,100-square-foot ranch-style property in a peaceful Connecticut neighborhood — we never thought we’d rent again. Owning it felt like the culmination of everything we’d been working toward. Loading audio narration… But at some point, our house stopped aligning with…
