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The first time my son asked if he could bike in the neighborhood with his friends, I hesitated. His friend balanced on his bike, one foot on the ground, waiting impatiently for an answer. I looked at my eight-year old son, his eyes wide with hope, and every instinct in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lisa Fail, 61, who lives in Durham, North Carolina. In late 2024, after about three decades in tech, she decided to take a career break. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m super lucky. I’ve…
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…
