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☆ A CEO shares the exact scripts she uses to ask for clarification and communicate seamlessly with her team
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Deb Liu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

On the other hand, Liu makes a point to purposefully solicit feedback and ask for clarity. He received an email response directly from the CEO saying there was something wrong with the landing page for the project. Proud of their work, then shared it with the CEO, telling him they had taken his feedback and redesigned the page. The confirmation: Remember to wrap up your request for clarification by reiterating what you've heard and understood. For this reason, if you're feeling unsure or unclear about a question or an answer, don't hesitate to ask out loud.

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Our experts answer readers' insurance questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess insurance products). When I got renters insurance, I guessed how much I needed. Compare the best renters insurance policies. I've had my share of car accidents and auto insurance claims, but this was my first time having a major loss and filing a renters insurance claim. An emergency fund is a mustAn insurance claim takes time.

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☆ I wanted to simplify my life, so I downsized my big house for a rental home and sold most of my stuff. I feel like I can breathe for the first time in years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Lauren CobelloMy old house sold in a dayMy old house sold in a day for $185,000 — $16,000 above the asking price. The old house had room for plenty of sleepovers; we would host large ones for birthdays, but we can't do that in the new house. Cobello's new home (right) is about a third of the size of her old house. In the old house, my monthly expenses included $350 on property taxes, around $26 on garbage collection, and close to $66 on water. After paying off my mortgage on the old house, my proceeds from selling it will be around $55,000.

Persons: Lauren Cobello, —, I'd, Cobello, Bob Ruggio, I've, It's, I'm Organizations: Service, WEBGIO, Facebook, Walmart Locations: New York, Oswego, homeownership

The Texas Legislature impeached Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday. Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton sits in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, on May 29, 2023. But the threshold for conviction in the Senate trial is higher, requiring a two-thirds majority of its 31 members. If that happens, Ken Paxton would be permanently barred from holding office in Texas. He had suggested before the House impeachment vote that all 31 senators would vote in the trial.

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☆ Republican DeSantis strives for personal touch on 2024 kick-off tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Earlier, DeSantis and his wife, Casey DeSantis, hosted an event at a welding company in Sioux City, in Iowa's extreme west. Now they were downriver in Council Bluffs, a city of about 60,000, and had two more events ahead before flying to New Hampshire and South Carolina for the remainder of a three-state, 12-city tour. Iowa voters are well known for demanding to see candidates up close. That means he will need to stump in places like Council Bluffs again and again before February. In her remarks, she showed herself as a fierce advocate for DeSantis’ Florida record while reminding listeners that the two are parents of three young children.

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☆ I'm a cruise musician on an adults-only ship. I make thousands of untaxed dollars each month and get to travel the world.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jack Nolan, 32, is a guitar player who lives and works on a Virgin Voyages cruise ship. He was starting his own cruise ship band and he asked me if I wanted to play guitar. Our drummer already knew the process of how to get a cruise ship gig, so he led the way. That's a really sweet part of being a full-time cruise ship musician, to save so much money. Jack Nolan makes $4,000 per month as a cruise ship musician, he told Insider.

Persons: Jack Nolan, Nolan, I'm, Valiant, Elvis, Etta James, Bruno Mars, It's, I've, we've, we're, Greece — it's, haven't, it's Organizations: Virgin, Morning, Celebrity, British, Kangaroos Locations: England, Australia, New Zealand, Norwegian, Greece, LA, California

☆ None of the Roy children deserve to succeed Logan but I'm hoping it's Shiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

There are really no good choices for who should succeed Logan Roy in "Succession." She also fakes authenticity — a power move, one expert told Insider. The show revolves around the deeply dysfunctional Roy family and the jockeying to succeed Logan Roy, the recently deceased patriarch played by Brian Cox, as head of the family media empire, Waystar Royco, loosely based on Fox News and News Corp. "Shiv seems to be a person who gets relationships," Gino told Insider. The media baron and inspiration for Logan Roy, Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp, also has stirred speculation over which of his children might succeed him at the top of the home of Fox News.

LAKE CHARLES, La., May 18 (Reuters) - In Washington, Republican U.S. Representative Clay Higgins has been a vocal advocate for spending cuts. As a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, Higgins was an early advocate for dramatic spending cuts, many of which ended up in the House bill. He hopes the spending cuts backed by Higgins won't affect local efforts to provide affordable housing. When it comes to spending, Higgins has been a solid "no" in Washington. For some local residents, Higgins' push for spending cuts in the face of so much need remains incomprehensible.

☆ DeSantis Signs Tall Stack of Right-Wing Bills as 2024 Entrance Nears
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Wednesday, Mr. DeSantis signed a slew of measures that hit all the culture-clash notes his base has rewarded him for, including bills banning gender-transition care for minors, preventing children from attending “adult live performances” like drag shows and restricting the use of preferred pronouns in schools. “We need to let our kids just be kids,” Mr. DeSantis said at a Christian school in Tampa. “What we’ve said in Florida is we are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”It was his third consecutive day of holding public bill-signing ceremonies across the state. The ceremonies, which he hosts in his official capacity as governor, allow Mr. DeSantis to promote his political message in settings that he carefully stage-manages as a veritable M.C., calling up additional speakers and then thanking them for their contributions. These events sometimes take on the feel of political rallies.

☆ Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Michael Ian Black | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

HAROLD, by Steven WrightHarold is a third grader with a rectangle in the middle of his head. Birds fly through this rectangle bearing thoughts. There are many birds and many, many thoughts for Harold to ponder. The book is set on a single school day in December of 1965, in Ms. Yuka’s third-grade classroom at Wildwood Elementary School. He also spends a great deal of time thinking about Elizabeth, his crush, who sits a few rows ahead of him and who has an I.Q.

☆ A 'Shark Tank' winner and stay-at-home dad who Mark Cuban called a 'compassionate capitalist' doubled down on his business when his wife's health took a sudden turn: 'There is no greater incentive to
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Freya Williams was a CEO and her family's breadwinner before contracting long COVID. Her husband dove into his small business and landed an investment from Mark Cuban of "Shark Tank." But COVID led to "long COVID" for her. Thousands of Americans have likely left the workforce because of long COVID, and Williams is among them. Delaney added that his wife's suffering and his family's precarious position had changed his drive as a business owner.

☆ Florida just ranked as the top state for education, amid DeSantis battles on curriculum, books, and college leadership
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But on Tuesday, Florida came in first for education as part of the annual Best States rankings from US News & World Report. The Florida education model works." Students from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools School for Advanced Studies-Wolfson campus protest during a statewide walkout on April 21, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar panned the US News analysis as a "narrow view of education" and predicted curriculum restrictions and book removals would "impact student scores in the years ahead." Florida ranks 44th in the US for spending per student on public schools, according to the Florida Education Association, which is the state's teacher's union.

☆ In Abortion Pill Ruling, the Supreme Court Trades Ambition for Prudence
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — It was an interim ruling, and the majority gave no reasons. But the Supreme Court’s order on Friday night maintaining the availability of a commonly used abortion pill nonetheless sent a powerful message from a chastened court. Ten months ago, five conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating a constitutional right to abortion that had been in place for half a century. All three of the Trump justices were in the majority. Cynics might be forgiven for thinking that the decision last June, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, was a product of raw power.

☆ Warren Buffett's former deputy slams crypto and meme stocks, heralds AI's 'iPhone moment,' and flags big risks to commercial real estate. Here are the 6 best quotes from her annual letter.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Warren Buffett's ex-deputy blasts meme stocks and cryptos and welcomes a more sensible market. Tracy Britt Cool advises investors to be careful and touts ChatGPT as groundbreaking. Here are the six best quotes from Britt Cool and her Kanbrick cofounder in their annual letter. Tracy Britt Cool and her Kanbrick cofounder, Brian Humphrey, also jabbed at meme stocks and cryptocurrencies, and hailed artificial intelligence as a game-changing technology. (Britt Cool and Humphrey singled out commercial real estate, heavily indebted companies with floating-rate loans, and the mushrooming federal debt as areas of concern.)"

☆ The creepy secret behind online therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Tanmoy Goswami | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Crisis Text Line, now in its 10th year of operations, uses artificial intelligence to respond to people experiencing emotional abuse, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. 'The vast majority of mental-health apps are exceptionally creepy'BetterHelp, a poster child of online therapy founded in 2013, calls itself "the world's largest therapy platform" and says it has over 2 million users. One of the first popular mental-health apps, PTSD Coach, was launched by the US Department of Veteran Affairs in 2011. But for mental-health companies these practices can undermine the very foundations of mental-health care: dignity, trust, and psychological safety. As Crisis Text Line wrote on its website extolling its deal with Loris: "Why sell T-shirts when you can sell what your organization does best?"

☆ Biden and the Media Are Electric-Vehicle Grifters
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Journal Editorial Report: Its tailpipe emission standards turn auto companies into public utilities. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWhen I pestered a senior Biden climate official a few months ago about the counterintuitive argument that green handouts won’t reduce fossil-fuel consumption, he surprised me by finishing my sentence. The only real solution is for governments “to put a price on carbon,” he said, and speculated Democrats and Republicans might break the ice with a carbon-related import tax. The point being, economic sanity exists everywhere except in the policies of the Biden administration and media coverage of them.

☆ Inside the Rise and Fall of Kittyhawk, Larry Page's Failed Flying Car Company
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Killing off projects had become something of a tradition at Kittyhawk, the secretive flying-car startup launched by the Google cofounder Larry Page. Larry Page has used his Google money to found a series of flying car companies with one common goal: "to free the world of traffic." "When Bloomberg did their original exposé, that's when urban air mobility became a thing," a former Kittyhawk employee recalled. Everyone thought: If Larry Page is in this space, there must be something here." Interpreting "Larry-isms" or "learning to speak Larry" were essential skills for any Kittyhawk employee who wanted to retain their sanity.

☆ Don't make America Florida, make it New Jersey instead, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Phil Murphy is pitching his home state of New Jersey as a model for America. He sat down with Insider in Florida, criticizing the state's policies under DeSantis. As head of the Democratic Governors Association, he wants blue states to be a contrast to red states. Ron DeSantis of Florida hasn't been subtle about selling his vision of what America should be. Phil Murphy is urging voters to look much further north on the East Coast, to New Jersey.

☆ CeCé Telfer: After a regulation change for transgender athletes, CeCé Telfer is determined to 'keep pursuing her dreams'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Interview Amanda Davies | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —CeCé Telfer calls it the moment her dreams seemed to be shattered as she questioned whether years of “blood, sweat and tears” were in vain. Last week, governing body World Athletics (WA) announced it would be prohibiting athletes who have gone through what it called “male puberty” from participating in female world rankings competitions. That includes Telfer, an American 400-meter hurdler who became the first out, transgender athlete to win an NCAA title in 2019. “The overriding feeling was definitely devastation for myself and for many around the world,” Telfer, speaking about her initial reaction to the announcement, tells CNN Sport in an exclusive interview. “I’m still going to keep pursuing my dreams and keep competing and keep running as much as I can, wherever I can, however I can,” Telfer adds.

☆ Here's an exclusive look at the 12-slide pitch deck generative AI startup Sutro used to score $2.2 million in funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sutro helps non-technical users build apps, including their websites, mobile versions, and backends. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to raise $2.2 million in seed funding from Eniac. Sutro also offers low-code tools that help its non-technical users inspect code for issues. Sutro is currently in beta and is accessible through a waitlist, mainly serving non-technical startup founders and small businesses so far. Here's an exclusive look at the 12-slide pitch deck Sutro used to raise $2.2 million in seed funding from Eniac Ventures and angel investors:

☆ Mark Zuckerberg is planning another round of layoffs, and it will likely decimate remaining morale at Meta
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Meta, the parent of Facebook, could go through another round of layoffs, according to reports. CEOs often see layoffs as a way to fix a company's problems, but the cuts can do lasting damage. Just a few months ago, Meta conducted its first-ever round of mass layoffs. One bout of layoffs dents morale; a second can be devastatingIt's uncommon for a company to conduct multiple rounds of layoffs, according to data from Crunchbase. One bout of layoffs can leave a dent in employee morale; a second round can be devastating.

☆ ChatGPT use could spark a new market for chipmakers worth 'tens of billions' annually, Bernstein calculates
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"Given this, our math suggests a GPU TAM in the multiple tens of billions of dollars annually is potentially plausible once ChatGPT and other large language models are at scale," he added. According to Bernstein's calculations, 100 million ChatGPT queries a day would require annual purchases of $1 billion to $2 billion worth of Nvidia's H100 PCIe chips. At one billion queries a day, expect $10 billion to $20 billion worth of purchases, Rasgon said. Add Google's search queries to the mix, or roughly 10 billion a day, and Rasgon anticipates $150 billion worth of potential H100 graphics processing unit sales annually. "Presumably the cost curve will slope downward as the scale of large language model adoption rises, but the multi-fold expansion of GPU market feels inevitable if [large language model] usages (whether for search or otherwise) becomes a sustained thing," Rasgon wrote.

☆ Instant View: Adani's $2.5 billion offer rides out share storm with investor backing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

COMMENTARYAMBAREESH BALIGA, INDEPENDENT MARKET ANALYST, MUMBAI"The FPO did get subscribed, thanks to a few institutional as well as large family offices. DEEPAK JASANI, HEAD OF RETAIL RESEARCH, HDFC SECURITIES, MUMBAI"For Indian markets, one of the concern areas is out of the way for the time being as this was weighing on investor sentiment. Since the current market price is below the offer price, the retail subscription was low as investors can rather buy it from the market." That was their focus area considering the fact that there was a difference between the market price and the floor price of the FPO. It seems that retail investors did not consider the fact that there is more to rates than just the price."

☆ Harvard professor emerita says Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is 'fundamentally intolerable' and a threat to political stability
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Data privacy expert Shoshana Zuboff told the FT that Elon Musk's Twitter is a threat to democracy. The former Harvard Business School professor calls Musk's Twitter takeover "fundamentally intolerable." However, The New York Times reported that racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic slurs have increased on the platform after Musk's takeover. But Zuboff thinks the risks of the Musk takeover and the corporate control of information by big tech are even bigger — and may result in unintended consequences. "These spaces cannot exist solely under corporate control," Zuboff said.

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