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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…
Mackenzie Young, 26, lives in White Lake Township, Michigan, and quit his job as a software engineer at Google in May 2025 to pursue a career in music. Business Insider has verified his identity. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. Loading audio narration… Coming out of college,…
Bernie Sinclaire calls herself a “mommunist.”For nearly two years, the 38-year-old has raised kids with her best friend in their shared Manhattan apartment — and she couldn’t recommend the setup more. She and Anabelle Gonzalez, 39, have a household rhythm: they trade off chores, cooking, and doing crafts with their…
