working
The US Air Force has delayed the retirement of its A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, but the Warthogs are still headed for replacement, with F-35s, F-15s, and other aircraft expected to take on missions long associated with the A-10 platform.The Air Force has argued the A-10 won’t be viable in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Zeng, 24, a Meta software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been told by many of my friends that my living situation is very “Spartan.” I don’t own a car,…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said leading consulting firms will come to regret their partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic. Loading audio narration… “If you are running a consulting business and you are deploying Anthropic or OpenAI directly into your organization (I’m looking at you PwC and Accenture) you are letting the…
Burger King wants to be crowned the top burger chain — and while company leadership says its turnaround effort could take decades, it’s already showing results. Loading audio narration… “‘Reclaim the Flame’ is, frankly, a two-decade strategy because of everything that has to be done,” Burger King US and Canada…
America has been experiencing a productivity boom for the past five years, and economists are debating what’s driving it. Loading audio narration… Stanford University economics professor and leading remote-work researcher Nicholas Bloom has one theory: remote work is playing a major role.In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Bloom shared a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Pulliam, a 51-year-old tech and executive career coach in Issaquah, Washington. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… After studying computer science, I worked as an athletics coach for 13 years before joining Microsoft as a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rebecca Minkoff, a 45-year-old fashion designer, cofounder of the Female Founder Collective, and former “Real Housewives of New York City” cast member. It has been edited for length and clarity.My public image is, I think, very glamorous. In reality, there’s a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vivi Mengjie Xiao, an AI product manager and content creator on RedNote, China’s social media platform. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m an AI product manager in China, and earlier this year, my CEO…
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…
