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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marie Pabelonio, a 38-year-old editorial lead at Google, based in the Bay Area. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been at Google since 2019, and as a writer, I knew AI would affect my role.Looking back on my…
In 2023, Lin Koh, her husband, and their two young children moved from Santa Clara, California, to France to help care for her husband’s mother, who lives in France and has Alzheimer’s.”We were observing her decline, and we made the call,” Koh told Business Insider. The Bay Area’s high cost…
Mothering is a continual history, one that is constantly being written as the work of affirming and sustaining life continues.I have been a mother for 18 years. I am past the time when my children needed everything from me, when caring for them subsumed all my time and energy. I…
This interview is based on a conversation with Rena Clare, 67, a retired professional photographer from Omaha, Nebraska. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I wasn’t particularly sporty in high school. Golf was just about it. The whole idea of fitness or having a healthy…
If you work at Accenture and want to get a promotion, you’d better be using AI. Loading audio narration… Julie Sweet, the CEO of Accenture, says artificial intelligence is embedded in how performance is evaluated at the consulting giant.”Today, AI at Accenture is how we do work,” Sweet said on…
John Kiriakou spent about 15 years at the CIA, rising to the position of chief of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan. He describes how the work strained his first marriage.His first wife wasn’t in the CIA, and didn’t know he worked for the government agency. He couldn’t tell her where he’d…
In the final season of Mad Men, Peggy has an idea for a burger chain commercial that her bosses like. Then doubts herself. She goes back to her empty yellow legal pad, jots down a new concept from scratch, and returns to eat at the restaurant, even though she’d already…
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Forget happy hour. Try playing hooky.”We need it! Reparations for our pain and suffering,” my friend, Lauren Grove, texted me.It was right after a February blizzard had dumped more than 12 inches of snow over the Tri-State area, and with her kids being the same age as mine — busy…
If Ben Zabihi had started his career five years ago, his workday would have looked very different than it does today.A few years ago, he might have spent much of his time formatting code and writing documentation. Now Zabihi, who has been working as a software engineer at a small…
