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☆ Remember those pricey Herman Miller chairs that everyone wanted in 2020? Some are now being discarded, crushed by excavators, and sent to landfills.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

As a result, the iconic Herman Miller chairs popular during the pandemic are ending up in landfills. More than three years after the Covid pandemic sent employees home, office spaces in New York City are still only half occupied, the New York Times reported. As those deserted offices clear out, their tenants have had to decide what to do with the abandoned office furniture. Lior Rachmany, the founder of Dumbo Moving and Storage, told the Times his company has "never seen so many Herman Miller chairs." MillerKnoll, Inc., which owns the Herman Miller brand, told Insider in a statement that it expanded its furniture repurposing program in May.

Persons: Herman Miller, —, Lior Rachmany Organizations: Service, Museum of Modern, New York Times, Times, Environmental Protection Agency, Dumbo, Inc Locations: York, New York City, New Jersey

☆ 28 Things Every Student Needs to Pack for College
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Lisa Lombardi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +12 min

One of these plug-in air fresheners will keep a dorm room smelling good, and each scent refill lasts for over a month. Aromatherapy diffuserTakeout meals from the dining hall and dirty laundry sure can stink up a tiny dorm room. But with an aromatherapy diffuser, you can keep a dorm room smelling great and exude calm vibes. Bed risers with USB portsHold N' Storage Bed Risers with Power Outlet and USB Ports $48 at AmazonTo add under bed storage, you can’t beat bed risers, says Saltman. These Hold N’ Storage bed risers elevate a bed by 7.25 inches, providing room for extra bins and luggage.

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☆ New report shows Ticketmaster controls the vast majority of the live event business, and any promises of 'transparency' just mean they'll overcharge concertgoers more brazenly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Live Nation Entertainment announced new "transparent" pricing where it will display fees at the beginning of the transaction. While this has been on Biden's agenda for months, he hasn't addressed the grip Live Nation Entertainment has on the entertainment industry. Republican state Sen. Scott Wilk introduced a bill in early 2023 to ban exclusivity contracts in the ticketing industry. Ultimately, she said, it's up to the Department of Justice to investigate and potentially take action on Live Nation Entertainment. According to the New York Times, the DOJ opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment in late 2022.

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☆ The free lunch is over for Wall Street's programmers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

For as long as I can remember, the safest place on Wall Street for job security was in tech. But according to one Wall Street billionaire, that sentiment won't hold true for much longer. As Insider's Paige Hagy reports, Griffin instead highlighted how programmers need to position themselves to provide the most value to companies in this post-ChatGPT world. In the before times (pre-ChatGPT), no one was really questioning the value programmers were adding. At least that's the take from Wall Street vet Marty Chavez.

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☆ The Most Comfortable Pillows for Back Sleepers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +14 min

Best overall pillow for back sleepersSaatva Latex Pillow $165 at Saatva Saatva’s shredded latex pillow balances plush comfort with a solid amount of neck support. Best memory foam pillow for back sleepersTempur-pedic TEMPUR-Cloud Ultimate Pillow $89 at Tempur-pedic The Tempur-Cloud Ultimate Pillow is a responsive memory foam model that adapts to your body for plush comfort and pressure point relief. But within a day, it plumped up nicely to make a medium-loft memory foam option that would work for different size sleepers. I’ve written extensively about sleep and sleep hygiene in particular, including reviews for Buy Side of pillows for side sleepers, pillows for stomach sleepers and the best mattress toppers. Temperature regulation: For a comfortable night’s sleep, pillows should keep the microclimate—the area between the sleeper and the bedding—from feeling warm.

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☆ I tried the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset — here's what it's like
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Steve Kovach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

related investing news Here's what analysts are saying about Apple's new Vision Pro headset The promise of Apple's new mixed-reality headset isn't really about the headset I got to take one for a test drive. The Vision Pro isn't large enough to fit glasses if you wear them. Even though most of the focus with Apple Vision is on the visuals, I was equally impressed by the audio. The Vision Pro has a pair of speakers that sit near your temples and provide a surround sound effect. But as someone who has tried just about every mainstream headset to date so far, I can tell you that Vision Pro feels like a $3,500 machine.

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☆ Russian Wagner Group is using American social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to recruit new members around the world, according to new report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Wagner Group has turned to Facebook and Twitter in search of new recruits, Politico reported. Job postings linked to the Wagner Group garnered nearly 120,000 views across Facebook and Twitter over the last ten months, according to Politico. A Western government official, meanwhile, told the outlet that at least two phone numbers included in the social media posts were linked to either the Wagner Group or Russian intelligence. The group boasted salaries of 240,000 rubles per month, or the equivalent of $3,192, according to Politico. Even before the Russia-Ukraine war, the Wagner Group was involved in fighting throughout Central Africa.

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☆ Inside the Life of Influencer Barbers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Kurtis Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I slide into a cushy leather chair in this bustling shop next to a small flooring business. The hum of clippers echoes throughout the room. A framed photo of former President Barack Obama hangs on a wall, and the TV is tuned to highlights from a recent Golden State Warriors basketball game. But the volume is turned down low, and instead I hear snippets of conversations — quick descriptions of desired cuts, followed by comfortable banter about politics (Donald Trump running for president — again!) career scoring record) and life (a 20-something moving in with his girlfriend).

☆ Six Golf Vacations Even Your Golf-Hating Spouse Will Love
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Weiss | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LET’S BE FRANK: Old-school golf trips were a handy way to ditch the spouse and fritter away a week with like-minded monomaniacs. The following spots offer course corrections that let both golfers and their better halves pursue their own form of fun, be it a birdie, an eagle, a catamaran cruise or a walk in a “meditation labyrinth.”1. Arizona: Tee Time and TranquilityWith 36 holes of Jay Morrish-designed golf and a 33,000 square-foot spa, the Boulders Resort, Curio Collection by Hilton, in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a cushy oasis in the Sonoran Desert. Ancient souls will feel young again: A meditation labyrinth and reflecting pond promise transcendence, while the earthbound golfer makes his or her way around the plush golf course.

☆ My husband and I quit our cushy jobs abroad and moved back to our tiny Indiana town, where our house cost just $80,000 and we feel like we've won at life
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tiffany Baker and her husband have lived and traveled all over the world with their three children. But they moved back to Terre Haute, Indiana, a city of about 60,000 an hour from Indianapolis. Tiffany: We love living overseas and traveling to experience new places, but nothing beats living in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Baker Family in Terre Haute. Living in Terre Haute allows us to use our money and time to do whatever we want, whenever we want.

☆ SCOTUS justices went on cushy teaching trips to Italy, Iceland, and the UK funded by a conservative law school: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Kieran Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

George Mason University funded a series of plush trips for Supreme Court justices in recent years. Per The Times, the law school sent justices on trips to European tourist spots as part of teaching programs. Gorsuch was asked to help pick which Italian city would host his teaching trip. The law school dean, Ken Randall, said students had their time there "undoubtedly enhanced by the justices teaching or visiting or speaking with students." Insider sought further comment from the law school and the court.

☆ P&G earns household-staple status
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The $356 billion company said on Friday that sales grew 4% year-over-year to $20 billion in the three months ended March 31. That growth was led by a 10% price hike for the second consecutive quarter, while also growing market share in the United States. P&G warned of higher commodities and packaging costs, as well as wage inflation. P&G is proving that the cushy Charmin double roll is irreplaceable. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

☆ Warren, AOC press top Silicon Valley Bank depositors about any cushy treatment they received
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — Two top progressive lawmakers questioned whether Silicon Valley Bank offered its largest depositors unusually cushy treatment, one month after the institution collapsed and sparked broader damage to the banking system. "Silicon Valley Bank's unusually cozy relationship with its clients increased the threat of contagion when the bank went under," Warren said in a statement. "The American people deserve to know how these mutual backscratching arrangements developed, who benefitted from them, and what role they played in Silicon Valley Bank's failure." Over 95% of the bank's deposits were uninsured as of December, which threatened companies' ability to make payroll after the bank failed. Warren and Ocasio-Cortez asked the depositors to provide details on any special treatment they received from SVB by April 24.

☆ Getting laid off from PayPal was a blessing in disguise that enabled me to turn my online side hustle into a full-time business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

She started the business as a side hustle but took it full time when she was laid off in February. She described how she scaled the business after losing her job and offered advice for entrepreneurs. El-Amin was laid off in February from her role as a technical product manager at PayPal, alongside roughly 7% of the company's workforce. Her startup, called Flynanced, is a career-development and wealth-building platform for women who work 9-to-5 jobs. Finding product-market fit gave me options to growWhen I started Flynanced in 2020, I didn't think I was going to become an entrepreneur.

☆ The Twitter manager who went viral for sleeping at the office is going on a vacation after Elon Musk fired her
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former Twitter executive said she's taking a vacation just weeks after she was laid off. Esther Crawford was one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants and went viral for sleeping at the office. The Twitter executive worked at the company for over two years after it acquired her startup, Squad, in 2020, according to her LinkedIn page. Crawford isn't the only former Twitter executive to take off on vacation after the widespread layoffs. Still, it's unclear whether Twitter's severance pay is as cushy as that of other tech companies for all those laid off.

☆ This Isn't What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed to Look Like - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +25 min

Things have been difficult for her family, she says, but one thing she isn’t worried about: a midlife crisis, looming just over the horizon. One of our questions was about whether they had experienced a midlife crisis and how they would define the term. Many people said they felt they couldn’t be having a midlife crisis, because there was no bourgeois numbness to rebel against. “Who has midlife crisis money?”The traditional midlife crisis, as presented in popular culture, at least, unfolds amid suburban ennui. We just increase our Lexapro.”Was the midlife crisis ever even real?

☆ Legendary VC Doug Leone touts AI, praises Elon Musk, and reveals how he tests people over dinner in a new interview. Here are the 10 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Doug Leone compared AI to mobile devices and the internet in terms of technological impact. Great companies often emerge in tough times, and easy money can be bad for founders, he said. Leone is a legendary venture capitalist who led Sequoia Capital for over 25 years. (Leone said he looks for founders, partners, and employees who are seen by others as insufferable, belligerent, and bad listeners.) "What you shouldn't do and say: 'There's money in venture, I want a cushy life, I want to go into venture.'

☆ Reasons Plane Travel, Airline Customer Service, Airports Are so Terrible
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Bartie Scott | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

It's almost impossible to imagine a time when air travel was pleasant, much less enjoyable. Lost baggage, overbooked flights, outdated equipment, hidden fees, and disorganized staffing have fliers at their wits' end; consumer complaints about airline service have risen by 300% from pre-pandemic levels. Many of these measures had been put in place to improve safety following some rattling accidents in the early days of commercial air travel. So in 1978, at the urging of the economist and "inflation czar" Alfred Kahn, President Jimmy Carter enacted the Airline Deregulation Act. He added that "airline service, by any standard, has become unacceptable."

☆ The most dangerous cruise routes, ports, and destinations are in parts of the world where conditions are unpredictable — and help is nowhere nearby, travel analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

But some cruise destinations and routes are prone to dangerous conditions and risky activity. These are some of the most dangerous cruise locations around the world. AntarcticaThe world's southernmost continent is among the most beautiful — and dangerous — cruise destinations, according to Chiron and Klein. Cruise passengers during a lifeboat drill in the Northwest Passage near Nunavut, Canada. National Park Service via APCruise lines avoid dangerous portsWhile rough seas and high winds can make ocean travel dangerous, uncertainties on land pose their own risks for visitors.

☆ There are plenty of open jobs for tech workers — they're just not at tech companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Demand for tech workers at non-tech companies has reportedly outstripped demand at tech firms. The findings come as tech companies continue to cut budgets and lay off workers by the thousands. Tech jobs, highly sought after for their high pay and cushy benefits, seem less secure than ever as nearly every major tech company has cut headcounts and slashed budgets in the past six months. The bloodbath shows no sign of slowing down: Nearly 95,000 tech workers have been laid off in the first few weeks of 2023, according to layoff tracker layoffs.fyi. A silver lining for tech workers?

☆ Leaked Amazon memo shows it only wants to hire students and new grads for entry-level software roles
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But middle managers could be the latest layoff target in tech, especially after Mark Zuckerberg's latest reported comments. Leaked Amazon memo reveals new hiring strategy. The e-commerce giant is only hiring students and new grads for entry-level software positions, per an internal note reviewed by Insider. More on Amazon's latest hiring strategy here. The latest people moves in tech:An Amazon Web Services exec who was accused of gender discrimination is leaving, according to leaked docs.

☆ I compared the best business-class trains I've ever taken in Canada and Italy, and my favorite cost half the price
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Joey Hadden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I recently traveled by train in business class in two countries to see how they compared: a Via Rail train in Canada and a Trenitalia train in Italy. The author rides in business class on trains in Canada (L) and Italy (R). Later that week, I took a 6-hour Via Rail business-class ride in Canada from Toronto to Montréal. Two months later, I took a 4-hour Trenitalia business-class ride in Italy from Venice to Rome during a two-week train trip through Europe. So, I decided to compare my train trips in Canada and Italy to figure out which country offered the best business-class experience.

☆ Here are Cramer's pros and cons on the state of the market in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here's what I come up with when I do that for the stock market and broader economy in 2023. There are a lot more pros than cons. That's a cushy seat on the sidelines and it's hard to get those people back into the equities market. But we have so many strong companies that the layoffs simply haven't been significant. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ 18 movies with valuable entrepreneurial lessons: From 'Startup.com' to 'Becoming Warren Buffett'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Vikas Jha | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Takeaway: This movie shows the effect money, greed and power can have on relationships. "The Social Network" (2010)"The Social Network" shows us that business success requires more than just a great idea. "Becoming Warren Buffett" (2017)In this documentary, Warren Buffett reveals his day-to-day, and his two most important investing rules. Takeaway: This movie shows how two young men were pitted against each other, striving to grow in a cut-throat business. I've found myself feeling motivated after watching a great film with lessons I can transpose to my entrepreneurial journey.

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