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☆ I moved to Spain, got divorced, and was feeling lonely — until I found a new way to make friends
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Dalia Goldberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Dalia Goldberg moved to Spain with her then-husband in late 2018. Related storiesIn early 2020, I'd just spent my first year and a half in Seville, Spain. My husband and I had moved to Spain thinking we'd travel around and enjoy a great quality of life while working remotely. Many members of the Improvites told me the activity has boosted their confidence and helped them make new friends. Will, another member from the UK, moved to Seville from northern Spain after his marriage also broke down.

Persons: Dalia Goldberg, —, Jennifer, I'd, lockdowns, we'd, It's, Bob Rouf, Will, he's, I've Organizations: Service Locations: Spain, Seville, North America, drudgery

☆ My children are having a better, more fun childhood than I did. I think I'm jealous.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Joe Harless | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA recent sleepover made me consider how different my childhood was compared to my children's. While my sleepovers were better than theirs, their experiences in other areas of their childhood seem much better. And while I'm happy they get to have those experiences, I'm also starting to get a little jealous. They don't have to spend hours at church like I didOf all the shared life experiences, church activity makes me the most envious. And it's nice to think that someday in the future, my oldest will be hesitant to let his kid mow the lawn, too.

Persons: —, Sleepovers, I'm, Trunchbull, I'd, they've, Zelda, That's Organizations: Service, Business, Disney, Methodist Locations: West Virginia, Orlando, Chattanooga, Asheville, North Carolina, Breckenridge

☆ Will A.I. Kill Meaningless Jobs?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Emma Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This is what it must have felt like to be a guest showing up for a party at Jay Gatsby’s house, Mr. Wang thought. He hopped from one software engineering role to another, toiling on some projects that he felt were meaningless. At Google, he worked for 15 months on an initiative that higher-ups decided to keep pursuing even though they knew it would never launch. He then spent more than a year at Facebook on a product whose primary customer at one point described it to the engineers as unhelpful. During the pandemic, tens of thousands of people joined the subreddit page r/antiwork to share quips about rejecting drudge work and, in most cases, all work.

Persons: Brad Wang, Jay Gatsby’s, Wang, drudge, ”, Herman Melville’s “, Scrivener, “ Organizations: Google, Facebook, “

☆ How a 60-mile, sixth-grade field trip became a date with destiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It was one line from an itinerary of an upcoming field trip to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. And no place proved more prescient than those Capitol steps. Deep in my heart, I was certain that one day I’d be living in Columbia as a college student. Illustration Ian Berry/CNNThe cosmos and crimeThe afternoon stops solidified the revelation I felt on the State House steps. For me, it was a mere 60-mile, in-state field trip – culminating with a Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps – that proved to be my date with destiny.

Persons: I’d, Columbia –, That’s, Robert Mills, Ian Berry, Mills, disharmony, Gibbes, Alex Murdaugh, –, Douglas, Forrest Brown Organizations: CNN, Columbia, University of South Carolina, Belk, Kmart, CNN Travel, Capitol, State House, State, USC, Mills, South, South Carolina Law, Division, University of South, Presbyterian Student Center, CNN Digital Locations: Columbia, South Carolina, New York City, London, Western, University of South Carolina

☆ Death of Hedge Fund Stars: Wall Street, Stock Market Titans Are Gone
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Take activist hedge funds, which buy up a percentage of a company's stock (or an asset) and then use their weight to push for operational changes. Or there would be a fun, splashy war between the hedge fund and the C-suite. Hedge funds rely on outperforming the market when times are hard and it's easier to find pockets of outperformance and exploit them. Of course, hedge funds are having a hard time coming up with a crew because the clients have changed too. Advertisement"At the end of the 1960s, the bubble burst, and everyone thought, 'That's the end of hedge funds,'" Mallaby said.

Persons: David Tepper, Anthony Scaramucci, Lenny Kravitz, lanyards, Bobby Jain, Goldman Sachs, Denise Shull, Charles Lemonides, ValueWorks, Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein, BlackRock, Nelson Peltz, Bob Iger, Paul Singer's Elliott, —, Elliott, Meir Statman, Statman, I'm, That's, Paris, Marc Jacobs, they've, they're, Sebastian Mallaby, Julian Robertson, Julian, Mallaby, Lemonides, wonky quants, Keith Gill, David Einhorn, Andrew Left, bro Organizations: Appaloosa Management, Carolina Panthers, Bellagio, Millennium Management, Credit Suisse, Jain, Disney, Paul Singer's Elliott Management, Santa Clara University, Behavioral Finance, New, Tiger Management, Met, rockstar, Ferrari, Greenlight, Harvard, Princeton grad, Research Locations: Vegas , New York City, Singapore, Argentine

☆ Gen Z's Most Trusted Source for News: Online Comments Sections
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. For Gen Z, checking what other people are saying in the comments isn't shallow. The aim is to reach Gen Z readers where they live — scrolling through the comments — and turn them into subscribers. But I'll confess that I worried about the idea that Gen Z checks the comments to decide what to believe.

Persons: Z, Gen, Yasmin Green, Gen Zers, they're, Zers, Jigsaw, it's, they've, bros, influencers, Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw's, It's, Goldberg, Donald Trump, Trump, Z's, Ukraine —, They're, David Rothschild, I'm, ruefully, Adam Rogers Organizations: Media, Google, CNN, The New York Times, Times, NYPD, Research, Microsoft Research, Pew Research Center, Facebook, Business Locations: New York, Ukraine, Russia

☆ Inside the Chechen Units Helping to Fight Russia’s War
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Nanna Heitmann | Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s fighters are waging bloody battles in Ukraine’s east to add to its captured territory. Moscow supports this war effort with soldiers from outside the regular army, including some from a training camp in Chechnya. Some join for the money, others to escape everyday drudgery. Soldiers trained in Chechnya sign up to fight for Russia for a variety of reasons: money, boredom patriotism. Mayhem awaits them, as evident in the devastation of the city of Bakhmut.

Organizations: Russia Locations: Ukraine’s, Moscow, Chechnya, Bakhmut

☆ I'm still working at 79. I've never felt burned out and have no plans to retire.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. I'm the founder, chairman, and CEO of Ink Inc. Public Relations, and I'm 79 years old. AdvertisementI'm still working because I still love my careerOne of the things that keeps me going is having a competitive nature. I'm not planning on retiring in the classic sense to some golf courseMost people experience fatigue, but I've never felt burned out. I'm not typically asked how old I am, but on the rare occasion I'm asked, my response usually surprises the inquirer, which isn't a bad feeling.

Persons: —, Richard Grove, It's, Burson, I've, I'm Organizations: Service, Ink Inc, Public Relations, Business, Inc, Street, The New York Times, USA, Kansas Jayhawks Locations: Kansas City , Missouri, Kansas, New York City, California, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico

☆ Imagine Your Last Day of Work Ever. Here’s Theirs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Victor Llorente | Charley Locke | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Arthur JayFabric-store owner, 82, St. Petersburg, Fla.Arthur Jay didn’t think he would spend his life running the family business. After growing up around his parents’ first fabric store on Long Island, he left to attend college and then to pursue a career in management at Kmart. But when Jay was 27, his father died unexpectedly, so he had to take over at Jay’s Fabric Center in St. Petersburg. “For me, every customer that came in was a different opportunity,” he says. “If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, getting up every day would be a drudgery.”

Persons: Arthur Jay Fabric, Arthur Jay didn’t, ’, Jay, ” Organizations: Kmart Locations: St, Petersburg, Fla, Long, St . Petersburg

☆ Why AI might make it harder to pull off a 4-day workweek
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He also expects more go-getters will feel pressed to do the same as AI bores deeper into the workplace. Of course, if people need to oversee AI bots at all hours, workers could take on babysitting duty at different times of the day. But as he sees how AI will change how humans work, "people are going to get more and more tired — and busier," Gill said. Looking for a payoffNot everyone thinks AI will quash dreams of a four-day workweek. Whelehan said that, ultimately, management will decide whether AI will lead to job losses or enable a four-day workweek.

Persons: —, Binny Gill, Gill, Steve Cohen, Emily Rose McRae, McRae, Simon Johnson, Johnson, Alexey Korotich, Korotich, Dale Whelehan, Whelehan, Kognitos Organizations: Service, Business, New York Mets, Gartner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, International Monetary Fund

☆ Cramer: The 'proximate cause' of Super Micro's 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

At law school, we learned about "proximate cause," one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. But was that the proximate cause? No, the real proximate cause, the one that's really at fault, was the February unemployment report, which came out on March 8. At the time, many thought the proximate cause of Nvidia's pirouette was the performance of two chipmaker peers. Surely those two updates couldn't be the proximate cause of the peak of Nvidia, right?

Persons: It's, Let's, pirouette, Matt Murphy, Jay Powell, Powell, Zeus, Biden, Jim Umpleby, ferociously, Jeff Marks, Morgan Stanley, haven't, Mills, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Ann Wang Organizations: Nvidia, hasn't, Marvell Technology, Club, Broadcom, Marvell, Federal, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Apple, Procter, Gamble, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, Micro Locations: It's, what's, Wells Fargo, Taipei, Taiwan

☆ Jon Stewart takes aim at Sam, Satya and Sundar for 'false promises' on AI and jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jon Stewart is taking aim at tech bros over their "false promises" about AI and work. "The Daily Show" host blasted AI as labor-replacing, calling it a threat to jobs. Stewart also mocked the suggestion AI was creating new jobs like prompt engineers. AdvertisementJon Stewart is taking aim at tech bros over their "false promises" about AI and work. "The Daily Show" host mocked some of Silicon Valley's most influential AI leaders on Monday's episode, sharing clips of OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai among others.

Persons: Jon Stewart, Stewart, —, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, he'd, Lina Khan, Apple Organizations: bros, Service, Apple, Federal Trade, CBS, Business

☆ Ex-Microsoft VP of HR: If the application process is bad, the job will probably be worse. Beware of these red flags when interviewing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Chris Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . As the former VP of HR for Microsoft, I helped define the experience of job candidates. At the same time, I've also seen countless red flags in the hiring process for other companies that serve as tells for their culture. But there are tells that expose problems within the company and should be red flags for job seekers. Read the TellsWhen you're walking away or hanging up from that job interview, spend a few minutes thinking about the tells you saw.

Persons: Chris Williams, —, I've, doesn't, they're Organizations: Microsoft, Service

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, pushing ahead after months of difficult negotiations and amid growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad. But a bipartisan deal on border security struck by Republican Sen. James Lankford fell apart just days after its unveiling, a head-spinning development that left negotiators deeply frustrated. After the border bill collapsed, the two leaders abandoned the border provisions and pushed forward with passing the foreign aid package alone — as Democrats had originally intended. In an unusually raw back-and-forth, GOP senators who support the aid challenged some of the opponents directly on the floor. Turner posted on X, formerly Twitter, after the trip that “I reiterated America’s commitment to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.”But Speaker Johnson is in a tough position.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, It’s, ”, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Jeff Merkley, Peter Welch of, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden's, Schumer, McConnell, “, ” McConnell, Republican Sen, James Lankford, J.D, Vance, Russia's Putin, Putin, Kentucky Sen, Rand Paul, Carolina Sen, Thom Tillis, ” Tillis, ” Sen, Jerry Moran, Moran, Trump, Russia “, Mike Turner, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Turner, Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, ” Johnson, Abigail Spanberger, Zelenskyy, ” Spanberger, Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Republican Party, Ukraine, Republican, Republicans, Sens, Ukraine —, GOP, U.S . Senate, Trump, Ohio Republican, Kentucky, NATO, House Republicans, House Intelligence, Russia, ”, Senate, Virginia Democrat, Associated Press Locations: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, United States, U.S, Oregon, Peter Welch of Vermont, Russia, Kyiv, China, Gaza, Ohio, Carolina, Europe, America, Virginia

☆ Bring Office Cubicles Back; Improve Employee Productivity, Hybrid Work
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

In a memorable montage from the 1999 workplace satire "Office Space," Peter Gibbons, a fed-up office drone, decides to take a stand. For years, the office cubicle was the four-walled avatar of corporate disaffection. Late '90s films like "Office Space," "Fight Club," and "The Matrix" enshrined its detested status. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open office plans and a Silicon Valley-led gloss of egalitarianism, epitomized by Google's high-profile headquarters redesign in 2005. The top comment on the "Office Space" cubicle clip on YouTube captures the irony of this shift: "I would have killed for a cubicle," the commenter wrote.

Persons: Peter Gibbons, Google's, weren't, Nikil Saval, Slack, hasn't, Joseph Country, Heather Chapman, Chapman, Sydney Baker, there's, Baker, Thomas Roulet, Roulet, somethings, it's, Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, Kelley, cubicles, hewing Organizations: Toyota Corolla, Porsche, Workers, YouTube, Research, Harvard Business School, Environmental Psychology, University of Cambridge Locations: Silicon, Michigan, Louisville , Kentucky, —, Charlotte , North Carolina

☆ A look back at ‘Entertaining,’ Martha Stewart’s first book
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Editor’s Note: The new CNN Original Series, “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart,” features never-before-seen images and rich archival footage that reveals the woman behind the legendary lifestyle icon. When Stewart says “Entertaining,” she truly means entertaining. Austin Steele/CNNA new CNN Original Series, “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart,” premieres Sunday and provides a look at her rise from caterer to business mogul. It’s a perfect occasion to look back at Stewart’s first book (she has 99 total, because what can’t she do) that started it all. Four decades later, the book is still considered an entertaining must-haveThough “Entertaining” kicked off Stewart’s career from local caterer to nationally known hostess, its release was not without controversy.

Persons: Martha Stewart, Martha, Snoop, Stewart’s, ”, Stewart, Austin Steele, It’s, Alan Mirken, CNN Stewart, Sofu, Alison Roman, suckling, — it’s, Swiss chard, wouldn’t, Julia Child, Barbara Tropp, Norma Collier, there’s, Bon Appétit Organizations: CNN, 9PM, New York Magazine, Crown Publishing, York Magazine Locations: caterer, New, Brussels, Swiss, Japan, Portuguese

☆ AI Assistants Could Take the Drudgery out of Law
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphotoBruce Pandolfini and Max Raskin correctly point out that AI may overtake significant aspects of lawyers’ and artists’ jobs (“AI Won’t Stop People From Playing Games,” op-ed, Nov. 2). But AI will likely make better lawyers, better artists and better humans. As a lawyer, I see AI overtaking some of the drudgery of the legal profession, liberating me to do more creative and client-focused tasks. For artists, AI could act as an assistant in a master’s workshop, similar to how Raphael relied on secondary artists in his workshop. I hope that AI will help us spark new ideas, collaborations and conversations offline.

Persons: Bruce Pandolfini, Max Raskin, ’, Raphael

☆ Three tips to maximize benefits during open enrollment
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Chris Taylor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

More than two out of three employees (67%) spend less than 30 minutes reviewing benefits options during open enrollment season, while almost half spend less than 20 minutes, a new Voya Financial survey shows. To get enrollment over with quickly, more than 90% of employees click the same options as last year, a new report by insurer Aflac shows. Compound that figure from enrollment every November, and you can see how your options can create a solid financial future or a shaky one. "Open enrollment isn't just a formality. After all, things might have changed since the previous open enrollment.

Persons: Eric Thayer, Sean Lovison, Jack Heintzelman, Spenser Liszt, Liszt, Nate Black, Black, it's, Chris Taylor, Lauren Young, Richard Chang Organizations: Macy's, of Labor Statistics, Employers, Employees, Thomson Locations: New York, Moorestown , New Jersey, Needham Heights , Massachusetts, Dallas

☆ Want to Stick to a Budget? Grab a Pencil
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Imani Moise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Latasha Jordan ’s favorite budgeting tool is a blank sheet of paper. The 39-year-old from Durham, N.C., folds the page into three sections twice, an act of organizational origami she refined over the past decade. The folds create enough boxes to fill in nine months of income, expenses, debt and savings by hand. A budgeting app could save her hours and effort, but she insists that the drudgery of doing it herself is what makes it actually work.

Persons: Latasha Jordan ’ Locations: Durham, N.C

☆ This Is How to Make a Budget You’ll Actually Stick With
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Imani Moise | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Latasha Jordan ’ Locations: Durham, N.C

☆ I watched YouTube in a self-driving Mercedes and experienced the future of commuting
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Drive Pilot can take over in traffic jams, letting you kick back, watch a movie, or read a book. Drive Pilot will be available in the electric EQS, shown here, as well as the gas-powered S-Class sedan. Over time, Mercedes plans to teach Drive Pilot to function in more places and at higher speeds. One lidar sensor actually helps Drive Pilot see in 3D, the other is just for symmetry. For people subjected to that sort of treatment daily — or, tragically, twice a day — Drive Pilot could be a game changer.

Persons: —, Santa Monica, Mercedes, we've, Deniz Calagan Organizations: Mercedes, Benz, Service, General Motors, Benz AG, Global Communications Mercedes Locations: Los Angeles, Santa, San Francisco, California, Nevada

☆ Mercedes-Benz's $100,000 electric SUV is an awesome Tesla rival — but its blob-like looks aren't for everyone
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I drove Mercedes-Benz's new electric SUV: the EQE SUV. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 4MATIC SUV. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 4MATIC SUV. The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 4MATIC SUV. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE 500 4MATIC SUV.

Persons: Mercedes, Tim Levin, I'm, anyone's, Elon Musk's, Tesla, iX, fanny, that's Organizations: Mercedes, Service, Benz, Subaru, BMW, Tesla's, EV Locations: Wall, Silicon, Stuttgart, Elon

☆ I left NYC and bought a house in Montana. I had a big job title but a terrible bank account — now I'm happier and my money goes further.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I didn't know a single person in Montana, but after I visited Bozeman, something about it felt like home. I had a big title but a terrible bank account and felt trapped. I look back on my life in NYC and see how anxious and exhausted I was. People are aware of you in a way that they aren't in a big city, where you can blend in. Buying a house in MontanaLester with her friends at her house in Montana.

Persons: Shallon Lester, she's, I've, Lester, Christian Dior, I'm, Montana Lester, Shallon Lester I lucked, Montana I've, I'd, Guys I've, haven't, it's, Lauryn Haas Organizations: Service, Lean, lhaas Locations: New York City, Bozeman , Montana, Montana, Wall, Silicon, California, Bozeman, Manhattan, Manhattan . Bozeman, NYC, Bozeman I'm, Los Angeles

☆ Elon Musk wants to give amputees robotic limbs powered by chips implanted in their brains
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk floated an idea for a new line of Tesla products on Wednesday: robotic limbs. While updating investors on Tesla's second-quarter performance on Wednesday, the billionaire entrepreneur floated an idea for a new line of Tesla products: robotic limbs. The Tesla Bot would be 5-foot-8, walk 5 miles-per-hour, be powered by AI and cameras, and be able to relieve humans of the drudgery of factory work and other manual labor, Musk said. A Tesla Bot rendering. As for Optimus, Musk said on Wednesday that he's confident that the robots will be doing "something useful" in Tesla factories come next year.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk, Neuralink, he's Organizations: SpaceX, Twitter, Reuters, Optimus, Tesla

☆ How A.I. and ChatGPT May Change Medicine - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Daniela J. Lamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The bar is higher for diagnostic programs than it is for programs that write our notes. But the way we typically test advances in medicine — a rigorously designed randomized clinical trial that takes years — won’t work here. But even as he prepares to embrace new technology, Dr. Rodman wonders if something will be lost. writing our notes for us, Dr. Rodman sees a trade-off. At the same time, patients will be using these technologies, asking questions and coming to us with potential answers.

Persons: —, Adam Rodman, Beth, Rodman, “, Dr Organizations: Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, New England, of Medicine, A.I Locations: Boston

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