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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…
George Chryssanthou and his partner of 25 years, Electra Friedman, were hoping to move to Greece when Friedman retired after a long career as an art educator. Loading audio narration… Eighty-year-old Chryssanthou spent his teenage years in the country, while 83-year-old Friedman was born there. The plan was to use…
True Religion had to recognize some hard truths in order to turn its brand around. Loading audio narration… When Michael Buckley returned to True Religion as CEO in 2019, he inherited a company that was struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Since then, he’s helped turn things around — doubling sales…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Seguin, who was surprise-diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at age 35. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ll never know for sure why I got colon cancer at age 35.Sure, I can look back now and point to…
