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☆ If you want to take notes like Sam Altman, these are the 2 pens the OpenAI chief swears by
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Altman says he likes to take notes using pen and paper. Altman says he prefers to use a spiral notebook because he can rip its pages out when needed. The OpenAI chief said he uses pens from Uni-Ball and Muji to jot things down. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman likes to take notes the old-fashioned way — using pen and paper.

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☆ I was a single mom and learned how to grocery shop on a budget. I meal-plan on the fly based on sales and still afford occasional treats.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Ashley Archambault | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

As a single mom, I had to learn how to make my income work for my son and me. That's when I noticed that I still retain a knack for shopping smart, both in terms of health and our budget. While I now have a partner to split the costs of living with, our grocery bill has the potential to soar as food prices seem to rise weekly. Because I know I'm saving money, I also feel OK buying occasional treatsWhen I'm saving money overall, I can afford a few treats or higher-priced items. If something is cheap but we don't love it, then to me, that's just a waste of money.

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☆ 5 Things I Do Leading up to a Big Tech Interview.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementHere are six things I do leading up to a big technical interview:1. However, I did have technical interview rounds focused on system design questions. I would go through them one to two weeks before the interview and try to answer them. Read my own notesIn the last 24 hours before a big interview, I stop doing any mock interviews or looking at new technical questions to prevent feeling even more anxious.

Persons: —, Yung, Yu Lin, Read Organizations: Service, Google, Yahoo, Meta, Visa, PayPal, Business Locations: Sunnyvale , California, Taiwan

☆ When my kids were little, I wrote short snippets capturing our daily lives. Now they're teens, and this window into our past is priceless.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Eileen Hoenigman Meyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewIt took me almost a year to calculate that my kids, Sylvia and Nico, were 15 months apart. Life with little kids is as overwhelming as it is glorious. AdvertisementI bought a little notebook for each kid, and I started writing short snippets about them whenever I could steal a minute. AdvertisementI stopped writing in their notebooks when the kids started school. But these little snippets offer us a glimpse of what it felt like to be there early in the morning, at dinner time, and in the middle of the night.

Persons: —, Sylvia, Nico, that's, Greg, they've Organizations: Service, Business

DON'T MISS: The ultimate guide to becoming a master communicator and public speaker"[The class] certainly had the biggest impact in terms of my subsequent success," Buffett told Segal. Professionals can still benefit from the lessons Buffett used in that public speaking course, Dale Carnegie CEO Joe Hart told CNBC in 2019. Don't spend ten minutes or ten hours preparing a talk: Spend ten weeks or ten months. Refer to brief notes, Carnegie suggested, because reading from a script can keep you from being present. Take CNBC's new online course Become an Effective Communicator: Master Public Speaking.

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☆ Closing arguments for Trump’s hush money trial begin Tuesday. Here’s what to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But prosecutors will have an extra degree of difficulty with a long break ahead of closing arguments, as jurors will have been away from the case since Tuesday. “This, more than even your typical case, is going to be a closing case,” he added. The star witness in this case are the documents, and the documents speak for themselves.”Trump’s attorneys will present their closing arguments first on Tuesday, followed by the arguments from prosecutors. They will say this is a documents case,” he explained, going on to describe the various accounting documents presented during the trial. Still, the closing arguments from each side will be carefully crafted to win not only a verdict in their favor, but also to mark each attorneys’ place in the historic trial, Villalona mused.

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☆ ‘The Simpsons’ airs its 768th episode tonight. Here’s how its writers keep things fresh
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Toward the end of its 35th season, “The Simpsons” made a move that rankled some fans: It killed a longtime resident of Springfield. I would say under 10,” said Matt Selman, sardonic showrunner of “The Simpsons,” in an interview with CNN. There are around 16 writers per season, typically made up of 22 episodes, though this season has just 18 due to the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes. Last month, Sosthand won a Writers Guild Award for the episode, beating out three other nominees from the “Simpsons” writers room. It’s nice that their hard work has been noticed, Selman said, but critical appraisal of “The Simpsons” is always in flux.

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☆ I was accepted to Yale. Here's everything I included in my successful Ivy League application.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Brian Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewI recently reviewed my Yale admissions file after being a student there for three years. I believe that everyone's college application journey is unique and that mine is just one sample, but I equally understand the urge to hear about other people's experiences. So, I'm now sharing a deeper look into my college application. I tried to highlight my passions in my extracurricularsThe author's college application. I wanted to capture who I truly am in my college essayThe author's college essay.

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☆ Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and ‘master of the short story,’ dies aged 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Yahya Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Alice Munro, the Nobel Literature Prize winner best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings, has died in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92. The news was confirmed to CNN “with great sadness” by a spokesperson at her publisher, Penguin Random House. It largely sets the tone for Munro’s prose; semi-autobiographical in nature and exploring the universality of the human urge for self-discovery, love, and independence, through the mundanity of everyday life in small, rural communities. Alice Munro, left, and Margaret Atwood at the National Arts Club in February 2005. Munro’s mastery of short stories and literature has been lauded by many of her contemporaries.

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☆ California just hiked minimum wage for fast food workers. Some restaurants are replacing them with kiosks
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —California just raised the minimum wage for the state’s fast food sector workers by $4 to $20. And, although many casual observers disagree, higher wages for fast food workers could actually help fast food owners, Dongoski said. The employment level in fast food restaurants still hasn’t reached pre-pandemic levels. This has nothing to do with minimum wage.”However, the minimum wage increase serves as an accelerant, Brown said. The changes are necessary, said Ghai, who employs 3,700 fast food workers in California.

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☆ Your Google Docs are (probably) safe from AI training
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google Docs that are publicly available have been used to train Google's AI. But just what is a "publicly available" Google Doc? AdvertisementI use Google Docs like a chaos gremlin: constantly and with a nihilistic approach to organization and labeling. That's why I was alarmed when it was revealed that Google had been using "publicly available" Google Docs to train its artificial intelligence. So, for now, unless you're tweeting out links to your spreadsheets, your Google Docs were probably not used for any AI training or considered otherwise to be "publicly available."

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☆ This 10-second trick immediately makes you a better conversationalist, according to emerging Harvard research
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. When it comes to conversations with new or new-ish people, there is one research-backed hack for "almost any time where you have that little bit of dread or a little anxiety" talking to someone, Duhigg told Business Insider. Brooks told Business Insider that her research is still ongoing. "If there's an uncomfortable silence, you know exactly what you're going to bring up."

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☆ I teach journaling workshops to help people process tough emotions and communicate better. Try these prompts to get started.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Sonya Matejko | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

If you're having trouble getting started, try this prompt: What is every emotion you've felt since you woke up today? To get yourself thinking, try this prompt: Write a letter to yourself one year ago today. Try this prompt: Pick an emotion and write a letter to them as if they were a real person. To get started, try this prompt: Think of someone you want to reconnect with. But my favorite is this prompt: Write yourself an encouraging note in your email and then schedule it for weeks away to get a pleasant surprise in your inbox.

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☆ Love your leftovers — the best way to reheat your favorite foods
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Casey Barber | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Here are my strategies for reheating meals that taste just as good the second (or third) time around and eating every single portion of everything I cook. Turning to the microwave is often the first response when reheating leftovers, but it's not always the method that will give the most optimal results for most foods. These ovens can reheat food without waiting to preheat, and many offer convection, air frying or one-touch pizza options. What foods work best for microwave reheating? Foods that have a main liquid component, such as soups and stews, are a natural fit for microwave reheating.

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☆ Annie Ernaux Can Read Anywhere, So Long as It’s Quiet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Right now, I’m rereading a work that I read 60 years ago, “Tragic Sense of Life,” by Miguel de Unamuno. What’s the last great book you read? Published in France this summer, it is the most powerful, profound book I’ve ever read about the devastation of one person’s childhood by an adult. On the other hand, I need to be seated comfortably with the book on my knees, not on a table. And to have plenty of time, though there can be pleasure in reading a book while an urgent task awaits.

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I have a separate short-term savings account that I automatically put $10 in every week for gifts. While I do buy some gifts closer to the holidays (especially for kids), I buy items on sale all year. This is where I keep a gift fund. I don't have a firm budget for how much I spend each month, but I typically pull from my gift fund or my splurge fund from such purchases. Plus, I've received sundry items for gifting, such as stuffed animals, treat bags, gift boxes, baskets, and stocking stuffers.

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☆ Diners are shocked to see a 4% 'employee healthcare' fee on their bills at an LA restaurant — but the owner says it's common
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Diners are increasingly noticing restaurant surcharges. A Los Angeles eatery received blowback after a diner tweeted about its 4% healthcare surcharge. Some questioned if the owner would cancel an employee's health insurance on a slow night. If the restaurant has a slow day or u opt-out, do staff not get health insurance that day?" "As most LA diners will know, Alimento's 4% healthcare surcharge is hardly unique," he wrote.

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☆ Here's the No. 1 number to calculate if you want to be rich, says millionaire—'very few people' know it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Dominique Broadway | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But at the very least, there's one number you need to calculate: your bottom line number, or your income minus your expenses. It sounds simple, but as a financial consultant and self-made first-generation multimillionaire, I'm often surprised by how very few people can tell me their bottom line number off the top of their head. You don't need an elaborate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to do this — just a notebook, pencil, and your bank accounts in front of you. Many of us have expenses that we don't even realize we're paying for, or amounts we didn't know were so high. Here's an example from one of my community members, Jacqueline, whose bottom line number is $243:Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Source: Dominique BroadwayWhat your bottom line tells you

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☆ Britain is getting so desperate to tame inflation it’s talking about food price caps
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Food inflation dipped slightly to 15.4% in May, but that’s still the second-highest rate on record. But chocolate and coffee prices are rising as global commodity prices soar, British Retail Consortium CEO Helen Dickinson said. Price controls anyone? “The current food price shock does not warrant such an intervention,” he added. Brexit is responsible for about a third of UK food price inflation since 2019, according to researchers at the London School of Economics.

☆ UK govt to ask supermarkets to cap prices of basic food items - Telegraph
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - The British government is looking at plans to have retailers cap the prices of basic food items such as bread and milk, the Telegraph reported, as the cost of such essentials continued to rise in the double digits. However, asked about such price controls, health minister Steve Barclay told BBC TV it was "not my understanding" on Sunday. 10 Office is in talks with supermarkets on a deal similar to one in France where major retailers charge the "lowest possible amount", the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Major supermarkets such as Tesco and Sainsbury's have announced price cuts on some food items in recent weeks. High food prices are a direct result of the soaring cost of energy, transport, and labour, as well as higher prices paid to food manufacturers and farmers," BRC's Andrew Opie said.

A CERTAIN style move terrifies countless men with a passing interest in fashion. Some would sooner streak through Times Square than be seen sporting this “faux pas.” The avoid-at-all-costs abomination? Wearing black and navy together. With a discipline that would impress a four-star general, guys both young and old abide by such staid rules on not mixing certain colors. Ask them to wear, say, green head-to-toe and you might witness a conniption.

☆ How I Hold It Together: Quiet FaceTimes and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Nicole Stock | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

I write notes to my future self 📝Whenever I get through a particularly tough day or a period of anxiety, I write myself a note about it for the future. I’ll jot down how it felt to overcome that moment, and what it feels like to be on the other side of it. I try to make working out fun 🏋️‍♀️As someone who struggles with sticking to a regular workout routine, I am always looking for ways to stay motivated. An hour or two of bouldering at the climbing gym strengthens muscles big and small, and I can either do it solo or with friends. And for a few seconds, after I reach the end of a climb, I feel like I’m on top of the world.

☆ Did you 'quiet quit'? Here's how to bounce back and regain motivation at work, according to a career coach.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Career coach Octavia Goredema shared tips on how to re-engage in your career after quiet quitting. If you've "quiet quit" your job, Goredema has tips on how you can reframe your mindset to feel motivated in your career once again. Thomas Barwick/Getty ImagesZoom out and reset your perspectiveTo bounce back from "quiet quitting," Goredema said you must first reframe your perspective. If you're burned out, you're likely focused on what isn't currently working in your job or career, Goredema said. Set 'career commitments'Once employees have reframed their headspace, Goredema said employees should focus on setting "career commitments," or consistent changes that reframe an employee's approach to work.

☆ Collapse of SVB, Signature Bank Tests the FDIC’s Executive Reserve Corps
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Candice Choi | Ben Eisen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tim Mayopoulos was squashed into a middle seat in coach on his flight to San Francisco, the only one available when he booked that afternoon. The Wi-Fi wasn’t working, so he pulled out a notepad to jot down what he would say to employees when he started his new job as chief executive of the failed Silicon Valley Bank the next morning.

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