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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Cesternino, 47, who appeared on “Survivor: The Amazon” in 2003 and “Survivor: All Stars” in 2004. He went on to launch his podcast, “Rob Has a Podcast,” in 2010 and has since expanded it into a network with dozens of…
Last summer, my family of four traveled to Scandinavia, visiting Denmark and Norway, and nearby Iceland. Loading audio narration… One of the highlights of the trip was renting a private floating sauna on a Norwegian fjord in the small town of Flam. I wasn’t sure what my two middle-school-aged boys…
For years, Kristy Shen and her husband, Bryce Leung, chased the dream of homeownership. Loading audio narration… “We were desperately trying to buy a house,” Shen told Business Insider.Having grown up in poverty in China, she was initially more comfortable putting money into a home than into the stock market.”My…
Welcome to the Hoshiverse, where one 29-year-old man can’t stop, won’t stop working. Loading audio narration… Hoshi is one of the 13 members of the K-pop supergroup Seventeen. Since his teen years, he’s been better known by his stage name and the tiger paw symbol he throws up whenever he…
I started applying for jobs in the first week of my senior year at Stanford University, assuming I would have something lined up by graduation, if not sooner. I was surrounded by friends entering finance and consulting, where recruiting begins early and offers are secured months, sometimes years, in advance.…
Michael struggled to pay down debt until he turned to an unconventional strategy: secretly working multiple full-time jobs at once. Loading audio narration… In 2020, Michael was working remotely as a technical recruiter, and his job wasn’t very demanding. He wished he could do something more productive with his time.”The…
Two weeks after opening her dream business, a horror-themed art jamming studio in Singapore called Scuro, Merida Lim was already thinking of quitting. Loading audio narration… “I was so sad because I felt like it wasn’t a viable business idea, but I was trapped because I signed a two-year lease,”…
They’re the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence race you’ve never heard of. Loading audio narration… While the largest tech firms have unveiled unprecedented spending for AI infrastructure, and leading language developers Anthropic and OpenAI close in on blockbuster IPOs, a group of former crypto-mining companies have quietly become power…
Turning 40 is a milestone that inevitably inspires introspection. Loading audio narration… In the months leading up to my 40th birthday, my wife and I found ourselves at a personal and professional crossroads.The price of day care in our Providence, Rhode Island, suburb would cost more than our mortgage, meaning…
In a previous life, I was a ratty, vagabond mountain girl. I never thought of myself as a writer, and I definitely didn’t plan to build a career as a ghostwriter. I rarely planned where I’d sleep each night.During a gap year from college in winter 2020, I was working…
