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By the time we reached our 40s, my husband, Dave, and I had built a life we thought we’d always dreamed of.We lived with our two greyhounds in an over-3,000-square-foot home outside Boston that we owned. We were both hustling and climbing the corporate ladder — he in the tech…
When Charlie and Thomas were born, I jokingly called them “Copy” and “Paste” in the hospital — my first official dad joke. But behind that joke was a genuine concern about how society would perceive them as identical twins. As parents, we set out to ensure that our boys would…
At Microsoft’s Build developer conference last week, the company’s head of AI security accidentally leaked details of its partnership with Walmart.The leak happened when employees protesting Microsoft’s selling products and services to the Israeli military interrupted a presentation at the conference. The executive was streaming and switched over to a…
For the better part of 26 years now, I’ve been a remote worker.I got my first remote role in medical sales a few years after graduating from college in 1999. At the time, I’d never heard the term “remote work,” and I didn’t know anyone who actually did it. I…
2025-05-14T10:55:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Lexi and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Melinda Long, a 48-year-old owner of Grit and Glow, a health and fitness company, and mother of three from Lloyd Harbor, New York. It’s been edited for length and clarityI love a good party, so when my oldest daughter, Sienna, was…
