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One day, after my youngest daughter left home, I found myself walking around my favorite Seattle park feeling so lonely, invisible, and unmoored that I thought I might just disappear without anyone noticing.After COVID, a broken relationship, and decades of being everything everyone needed me to be, I’d been laid…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ng Bee Kia, an 80-year-old retiree living in Singapore. It has been translated from Mandarin and edited for length and clarity.I was in my 20s when I started weightlifting.At that time, I was working at the warehouse for a local supermarket…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sammy and Zach Wedemeyer. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… We knew we were in debt. When we ran the numbers around New Year’s, we realized our family was $214,000 in debt.We decided to make some…
This interview is based on a conversation with Lisa Devine, 37, a candle studio owner from Queens, New York. It has been edited for length and clarity.People often ask me why my Mom and Pop’s arts-and-crafts studio in New York is called “2nd Chance Candles.”The answer is simple: your past…
Gina Lai wasn’t expecting to make three major life changes before turning 30. But within the span of four years, she quit her healthcare career, went back to school, and moved across the world to Hong Kong. Loading audio narration… It all started during the height of the pandemic, when…
KKR’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Arctos Partners traces back more than a decade to a relationship that began long before Arctos even existed. Loading audio narration… “We have known Ian Charles, the founder, for a long time: a decade plus,” Nuttall said at Bloomberg’s Invest conference on Wednesday as he…
After more than 25 years building Palo Alto Networks into a $125 billion security giant, billionaire Nir Zuk is making a contrarian bet again.His new startup, Cylake, is rejecting the cloud-based model he once championed, instead building an AI-powered, hardware-based security system for governments, defense contractors, and other highly regulated…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cornilia Issa, of The Burning Stones. It has been edited for length and clarity.Five years ago, I was doing some Christmas shopping in the city when I saw oil candles made from broken granite. I took a photo and showed it…
As a preschool teacher, I’m constantly encouraging my students to try new things.I’ll suggest they to do a puzzle with a kid they haven’t played with before or maybe try painting instead of racing toy cars again. Sometimes, I’ll ask if they want to abandon the slides and explore the…
I’m 39, and my retirement plan is haphazard, chaotic, and borderline nonexistent. I feel a lot of shame around this fact because I should know better.My first job out of college was at PBS, where I opened a TIAA retirement account at 22. Somewhere in the intervening 18 years, the…
