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When Deb Stern steps up to the barbell for a heavy back squat, all distractions fall away.When you’re sweating under cold steel, there’s no room for stray thoughts. Stresses about her busy caseload as an attorney, her packed schedule as a mom of two, and the hustle of New York…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Crystal McDuffy, a 28-year-old marketing manager based in New York. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve always known that I wanted to work in tech. I felt that tech would bring me closer to…
United Airlines is changing how people fly in its most expensive cabins. Loading audio narration… The airline said Friday it’s soon rolling out new “basic” fares for its Polaris business class and Premium Plus premium economy cabins that strip out some perks — like seat selection and lounge access —…
Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, has some simple advice for aspiring technologists: Start building — now. Loading audio narration… The executive hosted an Ask Me Anything on his Instagram account this week and answered a college freshman’s question about how to enter the industry.”You just have to immerse yourself…
After nearly two decades working undercover for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Billy Queen was given the most dangerous assignment of his career: to infiltrate one of the most violent biker gangs in Southern California, the Mongols. Loading audio narration… Within the first few months, his mission had…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Heather Wagenknecht, a vice president of sales for a company that deploys towers for public safety and telecom from Batavia, Illinois. It has been edited for length and clarity.As the VP of sales for my company, I average between 100 and…
For some tech CEOs, they’re not just building AI — they’re already living with it.Three founders of AI startups in San Francisco shared with Business Insider how they personally use AI in their work and lives, and what some of their favorite tools are for themselves and their team members.From…
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…
