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☆ I built a 'tiny house' Airbnb hotel and sold it for $7 million. Here's why I decided to walk away when I did.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I sold the property, called Live Oak Lake, for $7 million in October 2023. Part of the reason I considered selling Live Oak Lake was because of the stress of running it. We listed Live Oak Lake for sale in the summer of 2022. AdvertisementSelling the property has alleviated my stressI think I sold Live Oak Lake at the right time. AdvertisementThe Live Oak Lake project was an amazing project, a baptism by fire in the realms of real estate, marketing, and hospitality.

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☆ Airbnb CEO says most employees don't want full autonomy at work — and those that do should start their own companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I think their actions don't say the same thing," he told Fortune. Chesky, who inspired the term "founder mode," says those seeking autonomy should be entrepreneurs. The Airbnb CEO recently spoke with Fortune about the "founder mode" model of leadership. But I don't think people for the most part want to be disintegrated. AdvertisementHe said that his operating in founder mode "flies in the face of everything we're taught about modern leadership."

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☆ I'm a VP of product who uses my vacations to test if I've hired the right people
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He examines how his team steps up when he takes PTO to determine whether he's hired the right people. I usually find vacation an opportunity to judge if I've hired the right team. Every time I've come back, I've felt the folks I've hired are the right people; they've stepped up, and they know they can make decisions. So when I'm going on vacation, I ask myself, who can I direct people to instead for questions they'd normally ask me? AdvertisementLet's say you have one or two people on your team you're concerned about while you're going to be on vacation.

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☆ I didn't expect to become a 'trad wife,' but taking care of my husband eases my anxiety. I couldn't be happier in my marriage.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Hf Sylaj | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Being a traditional wife means wanting the best for my husband. AdvertisementMy journey to becoming a "trad wife" — or traditional wife — started in 2012 when I made dinner for a man I barely knew. I also knew I wanted to be the kind of old-fashioned wife we now call a trad wife. AdvertisementTo me, a "trad wife" isn't about how many kids you have. Being a traditional wife means I am secure in my place in this world and in my marriage.

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The Federal Trade Commission is announcing a finalized rule to make it easier for people to cancel subscriptions and memberships they just don’t want anymore. When the proposed rule was announced last year, Khan said, the agency got about 16,000 comments expressing how canceling subscriptions had become a headache at best. Khan and the FTC have already taken legal action against Amazon’s Prime division over accusations that it is luring customers into subscriptions that the FTC alleges are extraordinarily difficult to cancel. “Some members have the ability to cancel their membership online based on their membership type and location of their home club,” it said. Nelson said she’d be grateful for the changes Khan and the FTC are proposing.

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☆ Working in corporate America burned me out, so I became an elementary school teacher
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Jesse Gormley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Inspired by his career change, I decided it was time for my own career change. My first position in my brand-new career began as a substitute teacher in the elementary school I attended as a child. AdvertisementTeaching was one of the hardest things I've doneWhen I state that teaching sixth grade was one of the hardest things I had to do, it's no exaggeration. In my fourth year of education, I've found myself working in a great elementary school with an equally wonderful staff and an administration that appears to appreciate my work.

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☆ People want to work for a 'green flag' boss—this job interview question can help you find one
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

People want to work for a good boss just as much as they want to earn a good salary. That's why it's crucial to look for signs of a supportive manager, or a "green flag boss" as Weishaupt puts it, when you're interviewing for a new job. The one big thing I say to my team is, 'There's no mistake you can make that I can't fix.' On the other hand, if the manager responds that "people follow my lead or do what I say," Vyas says, "those are red flags." Plus, sign up for CNBC Make It's newsletter to get tips and tricks for success at work, with money and in life.

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☆ America has a serious ugly home problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Recently she posted a video on her YouTube channel in which she phrased the question more bluntly: "Why are homes so 'ugly' now?" Most people agree that America needs more houses, but nobody seems all that thrilled with the ones being built. Related storiesThe blame for America's architectural nightmare, however, doesn't stop at production builders, rising costs, or local codes. Homes look this way because they're not just places where we live — they're also supposed to help us get rich. As they stare down these rising costs, builders and architects have almost no choice but to streamline or opt for cheaper design elements.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ has a cultish take on toxic work culture
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In his new film, “Kinds of Kindness,” though, Yorgos Lanthimos goes further. Jesse Plemons is Robert in Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, “Kinds of Kindness." Workplace harassment is a pervasive problem in a huge range of professions, from farm work to domestic labor to Hollywood itself. Remote work saves companies money by reducing rent and relocation costs, and because workers who work from home are more satisfied with fewer pay raises. People in “Kinds of Kindness” are pushed to mistake domination for kindness.

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☆ The Supreme Court’s approach on ‘history and tradition’ is irking Amy Coney Barrett
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Devan Cole | John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Though Justice Clarence Thomas’ decision in a major trademark case last week was unanimous, it prompted a sharp debate led by Justice Amy Coney Barrett over the use of history to decide the case. “There definitely is the potential formation here of an alternative or several alternative approaches to history that ultimately draw a majority,” Wolf said. “What we could be seeing is a more nuanced approach to using that history,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center. But in a striking concurrence that captured support from both liberal and conservative justices, Justice Elena Kagan asserted that the court’s historic analysis need not end with the late-18th century. Barrett’s concurrence said the dispute could have been dealt with based on the court’s past precedent with trademark law and stressed that just leaning on the nation’s trademark history wasn’t good enough.

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☆ Opinion: Here’s how I, as an attorney, would try to persuade the Trump jury in closing arguments
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Opinion Joey Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

If the jury agrees, Trump would become a convicted felon, and could face up to four years in prison. But Trump’s defense attorneys will have much to say Tuesday about the evidence presented by prosecutors in an attempt to avoid that outcome. As to ledgers and invoices keeping track of these checks, Trump is the owner of the organization, not the bookkeeper or finance person. Cohen claims Trump was with the bodyguard at the time, and that he handed Trump the phone. The evidence shows that in order for checks to be issued to Cohen, Trump would have had to give his approval.

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☆ Biden's threat to cut off weapons for Israel isn't the same as what got Trump impeached
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Israel has already gone into Rafah, but Biden characterized their current level of involvement as short of his red line. I’m old enough to remember when Democrats impeached another President for supposedly withholding foreign aid that had been approved by Congress. The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan watchdog, formally concluded that the Trump administration broke the law in withholding congressionally approved aid to Ukraine. Biden relied on a bipartisan coalition to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. That said, while Biden will need bipartisan support to keep the government funded in September, he likely will not ask for more Ukraine aid anytime soon

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☆ Analysis: Biden’s Rafah warning sends immediate shockwaves through US and global politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Hospitals are overstretched as Palestinians die in Israeli attacks on the suburbs and tens of thousands of people have already fled. For Netanyahu, the eradication of the group that carried out the October 7 attacks may be a matter of political survival. • Can Israel — as Netanyahu vows — go ahead alone in an operation even the US has disowned? • How would a full-scale offensive in Rafah further hamper already faltering attempts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas? Initially, Biden’s warning, delivered in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett in the swing state of Wisconsin on Wednesday, looks like a case of political whiplash.

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☆ FTC bans employers from using noncompete clauses
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday voted to ban for-profit US employers from making employees sign agreements with noncompete clauses. And – with one exception – it makes currently existing noncompete agreements unenforceable after the rule’s effective date, which is set at 120 days from the rule’s publication in the Federal Register. The rule, however, does allow currently existing noncompete agreements for senior executives to remain in force. The ban would apply nationwide, overriding state laws regarding noncompete agreements. In December of last year, New York State Governor Kathleen Hochul vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature to completely ban noncompete agreements in that state.

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☆ Graham Sutherland’s study for the portrait Winston Churchill hated goes up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Caitlin Chatterton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his 80th birthday, as it is unveiled in London’s Westminster Hall in November 1954. This painted study of Churchill by Sutherland, made in preparation of the portrait, is up for auction for the first time. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby'sWhile “The Crown” is not a documentary, it is true that the 80th birthday portrait —described by Churchill as “filthy and malignant” in a letter to his personal doctor — was burned. “(Sutherland) caught him in a much more relaxed, intimate way,” Zlattinger said of the study, a small canvas painted in oils. Graham Sutherland, seen with his-then unfinished but eventually much-maligned portrait of Churchill.

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☆ Mark Cuban says this common leadership style is a toxic trait: 'Trust the process or fix what's broken'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The 65-year-old billionaire entrepreneur weighed in on the common leadership style in a recent post on social media network X. If you find yourself constantly micromanaging the people around you, something's wrong, Cuban noted. Trust the process or fix what's broken if you always have to micromanage," Cuban wrote in his March 11 post. Cuban's post was a response to a thread about counterintuitive leadership principles written by Ofek Lavian, CEO of financial tech company Forage. In that thread, Lavian referenced a 20VC podcast episode from last year featuring Shopify CEO and co-founder Tobi Lütke, who embraced micromanaging.

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☆ Mitch McConnell ramps up his criticism of Chuck Schumer in CNN interview
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Manu Raju | Ted | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In an interview with CNN, McConnell said Schumer’s speech was a direct contradiction of US policy and called on the White House not to go down that road. McConnell rejected calls for conditions on military aid to Israel – something some Democrats have called for in an effort to tamp down civilian deaths. In his speech, Schumer explained his deep misgivings about the toll on innocent people in Gaza. “I am anguished that the Israeli war campaign has killed so many innocent Palestinians,” he said. McConnell blamed the Biden administration for micromanaging the war in Gaza and said Schumer’s calling for “regime change” in the wrong country.

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☆ Premarket stocks: Revolution or market bubble? Investors weigh the AI boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —What’s the difference between a revolution and a market bubble? Thanks to strong performances in stocks and bonds in 2023, coupled with steady savings rates and employer-provided matching contributions, 401(k) investors ended 2023 very much in the black, reports my colleague Jeanne Sahadi. That’s according to new fourth-quarter data from Fidelity Investments, one of the largest providers of workplace retirement plans that cover 23 million 401(k) participants. The troubled plant-based meat company, which has partnerships with McDonald’s and KFC owner Yum! On a Tuesday call with Beyond Meat’s investors, Brown outlined a set of initiatives intended to rightsize the struggling company.

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☆ New Senate bill aims to kill proposed SEC rule on AI conflicts of interest
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Emily Wilkins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

More than 20 Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate sent Gensler a letter last fall, calling on the SEC to withdraw the rule. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.). The Senate bill currently lacks Democratic support, meaning it's unlikely to get much traction as long as Democrats control the Senate. If the final SEC rule is issued after the beginning of November, and not before it, then the rule could fall in the window of CRA, come January 2025. He also argued the precedent has been for the SEC to require firms to disclose potential areas of interest, not eliminate them completely.

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☆ Central bank blunders undermine tough rate talk
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Francesco Guerrera | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Comments by central bankers underline their desire to keep interest rates high until price growth quiesces. Policymakers’ recent mistakes mean they will struggle to convince investors their tough talk is real. U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell says his fellow policymakers are “not thinking about rate cuts at all”. In May, after another U.S. regional bank failure, markets concluded that the Fed’s rate hike at the beginning of that month would be its last. Respected central bankers might be able to convince markets that these numbers don’t portend imminent rate cuts.

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☆ Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Election Case Gag Order
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Trump’s lawyers appealed the order almost as soon as it was imposed, deriding it as “the essence of censorship.”In court papers, they have told the appeals court that the order should be repealed since it violates the First Amendment. They say that this gag order in particular was needed because of Mr. Trump’s “near daily” attacks against Mr. Smith, Judge Chutkan and potential witnesses in the case, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The prosecutors have tried to position themselves as protectors of both the integrity of the judicial process and the people who take part in it, telling the appeals court that Mr. Trump’s threats on social media have sometimes had damaging effects in the real world. It remains unclear how quickly the three-judge panel of the appeals court will decide on whether to rescind the gag order or keep it in place as the case moves toward its trial date. It has been in abeyance for about two weeks as the court has gotten filings from the defense and the prosecution.

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☆ Snap workers say they're being closely 'tracked' to enforce compliance with the RTO mandate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Snap is doing what it can to get employees working in the office again. The Snapchat parent at the start of September enacted its return to office mandate , requiring workers to be in an office at least four days a week. Besides that, Snap is also "badge tracking," the people familiar said. Snap workers' adherence to RTO rules will become part of their performance reviews going forward, the people familiar added. Snap's attempts to enforce the RTO mandate come alongside piecemeal layoffs , executive departures , ongoing business struggles, and advertising woes.

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☆ Tax-advantaged accounts can help you save on health-care costs—here's how HSAs and FSAs differ
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts are both tax-advantaged financial tools that can help you save money on your medical expenses. Some FSA funds may roll over into the new year, but it depends on your plan sponsor, according to FSAStore. If you invest your HSA funds, the earnings are also tax-free, giving HSAs a triple tax advantage. "Your HSA custodian doesn't micromanage your HSA expenses like they will your FSA," Rhinehart says. She says it's a good idea to keep receipts when you use your HSA funds just in case you're ever audited.

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☆ F.C.C. Moves Toward Restoring Net Neutrality Rules, Igniting Regulatory Fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Cecilia Kang | More About Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Why It MattersBy voting to move ahead with a proposal to restore net neutrality, the F.C.C. The agency will then be able to police broadband providers for net neutrality violations, consumer harm and security lapses. Background: What is net neutrality? Telecom companies have also argued that net neutrality rules could lead to regulatory creep and the regulation of broadband rates. What Critics SayRepublican lawmakers are fighting the move to restore net neutrality rules.

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☆ A Florida baby boomer blindsided by a layoff explains her plans to switch careers so she can work remotely forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Florida baby boomer decided that after a demoralizing layoff, remote work might be the solution. Some are committed to remote work, opting for pay cuts or career pivots to keep working from home. Jane said her bosses were out of touch, unaccommodating with remote work, and overly demanding. But she needed the security of a job, so she found one paying a comparable rate to her old one with similar benefits while she prepared for a switch to fully remote work. "I want to do remote work because I can travel and enjoy my life a bit more than being chained to an office."

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