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☆ I'm a wellness-app founder who developed insomnia in lockdown. Here's the routine I used to get my sleep back on track.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She told Insider she began sleeping terribly while working up to 14 hours in lockdown. My morning — and evening — routines used to be very different when I had insomnia in 2020. I like to say affirmations when I'm in a depressed mood — but when I'm feeling tired, breathing exercises help a lot. I start with more high-level strategic things, like reviewing the product roadmap — things that actually require a lot of brainpower. After three hours of this deep-focus time, I go out and walk my dog to make sure I'm getting enough exposure to light.

☆ Jennifer Aniston confronted Matthew Perry about his substance abuse during Friends years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Matthew Perry is continuing to share candid moments from his long journey to sobriety and the struggles he endured during his run on NBC’s “Friends” while yoyo-ing between addictions to Vicodin and alcohol. In an excerpt from his new book “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” Perry recounts how a visit from costar Jennifer Aniston to his trailer made him realize that his secret behavior when it came to alcohol wasn’t so secret. “‘I know you’re drinking,’ she said,” Perry, now 53, writes in the memoir, in an excerpt published by the Times of London. “You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season – when I’m carrying weight, it’s alcohol; when I’m skinny, it’s pills. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”“Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” by Matthew Perry, will be published by Headline on November 1.

☆ Ill-equipped Russian soldiers with only days of training are dying in combat: 'these guys are just literally cannon fodder'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's military has made it a priority to quickly recoup the number of soldiers it has to fight. Mobilization efforts have resulted in soldiers with little training being sent to the front lines. Some of these recruits had less than 10 days of training, the Times reported. "They are giving them at best basics and at worst nothing and throwing them into combat, which suggests that these guys are just literally cannon fodder," William Alberque, a specialist in the Russian armed forces, told the Times. One user on social media claimed Russian soldiers were living in "inhumane conditions" and had to provide themselves with food, the Times reported.

☆ I used alcohol to cope with running a multimillion-dollar startup at 21. After getting the drunkest I've ever been at a work event, I resolved to get sober.
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-11 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Dom McGregor dropped out of university to cofound Social Chain, an agency now worth $650 million. He decided to get sober after getting so drunk at a work event that his cofounder had to intervene. So we got rid of the website and doubled down on growing social-media assets. I stayed at Social Chain as the COO for four years after this, working alongside Steve. (Editor's note: In 2019, Social Chain merged with Lumaland AG and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

☆ I met my husband on Tinder — here's what everyone gets wrong about online dating
▼ + stars: | 2019-10-02 | by ( Meira Gebel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

My husband and I met on the popular dating app Tinder. Many people have misconceptions about online dating, from it being only for the socially inept to there being an extreme stigma around it. Despite the challenges it can present, online dating can be a really rewarding experience that can end in long-term commitment. Online dating is not some fringe concept like it was in the late '90s and early aughts. With that in mind, here are the four biggest things people get wrong about online dating.

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