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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marie Pabelonio, a 38-year-old editorial lead at Google, based in the Bay Area. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been at Google since 2019, and as a writer, I knew AI would affect my role.Looking back on my…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nuala O’Hanlon, who quit her marketing role at Primark in Dublin to backpack through Asia. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been in the fashion merchandising and marketing industry for my decadelong career. I started taking on visual merchandising…
My husband and I wanted space. We wanted to be off-grid. Loading audio narration… After years of traveling in a van, our wild hippie hearts wanted a place where we could build whatever we wanted, meditate outside in the sun, and feel inspired by natural, untouched land nearby.When we first…
My eldest felt a strong urge to own a car for most of his teenage years. He would pop into the living room and show his dad and me his latest internet find, usually a 20-year-old jalopy with questionable reliability costing several thousand dollars.Each summer break, he would talk about…
White-collar workers, beware.CEO Jack Dorsey is departing from the classic tech layoff playbook — and it could be a sign of what’s to come.In a post on X on Thursday, the billionaire said he’s slashing nearly half Block’s workforce, cutting its over 10,000-person staff to just under 6,000. He said…
On a recent trip, my daughter and I were tossing her stuffed animal around the hotel room. The toy spun around near the ceiling and came to rest on the corner of the TV, high above our heads.My daughter pointed and tried to explain where the animal landed, on the,…
