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☆ Public and Private Lives, Playing Out in Four Sultry Romance Novels
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Olivia Waite | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An emotional reactionary, he was bumping right up against the on-page shenanigans limit for me. But he was her coward.” This line changes nothing except the reader’s perspective — but that perspective is all-important. Bashir might have the money — and the yachts, and the hotels — but the book gives Yusra the right of claiming. Lily Chu’s two most recent books, last year’s THE STAND-IN (Sourcebooks Casablanca, 384 pp. paperback, $14.99) and THE COMEBACK (Sourcebooks Casablanca, 400 pp., paperback, $16.99), also star wealthy heroes, but here, the heroines are the ones who are up to shenanigans.

Persons: Bashir, He’s, Yusra, Lily Chu’s, Sourcebooks Locations: Casablanca, Sourcebooks Casablanca

☆ What I Learned About Vacationing From My Workaholic Son—and His Phone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Don Wallace | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A day in the life of Erin Lichy, the new 'Real Housewives of New York City' cast member whose day job is selling and flipping luxury real estate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She is also a cast mate on the rebooted "Real Housewives of New York City," premiering July 16. Her two jobs play off each other: One day Lichy might sell a dated $5 million condo on the Upper West Side. While Lichy works with sellers to maximize their profit when listing a property, she's dabbled in flipping properties, too. Lichy earned her real-estate license at 19 years old and received a master's degree in sustainable development from New York University. Five of the new 'Real Housewives of New York City' cast members with Lichy at right.

Persons: Erin Lichy, Douglas Elliman's Eklund Gomes, —, Lichy, she's, hasn't, It's, Tesla, Abraham, Abraham Lichy, Levi, Layla, Elijah, Eklund Gomes, Homegirl, She's, it's, Le Cuona, We've, Erin Lichy She'll Organizations: Housewives, New, Service, Douglas Elliman's Eklund Gomes Team, New York University, New York City, NBC Locations: New York City, New, New York, Tribeca, Manhattan, Barry's, Flatiron, Tribeca ., romaine, Ubers, Brasserie

☆ I quit my job in TV to bartend and freelance. It's allowed me to better connect with people and the freedom to work on my own projects.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sara Loaiza worked in TV production for five years before quitting. In 2022, Loaiza, 28, who lives in Brooklyn, quit her job in TV production to work as a bartender and freelance on the side. I was in high school when I first found out about TV production. When I came back to the US, I picked up a bartending job because I didn't want to let go of that freedom in my day-to-day life. Even without a corporate job, I'm less anxious about the futureLoaiza often works as a freelance assistant producer multiple times a month.

Persons: Sara Loaiza, —, Loaiza, I'm Organizations: Service, CNN, Español, CNBC, World Trade Locations: Loaiza, Brooklyn, Europe

☆ Barack Obama shares his No. 1 piece of advice for his own daughters: Don't let your hunger for success ruin your happiness
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"What you want is a balance," Obama told LinkedIn News' "This Is Working" podcast on Thursday. His advice for his two daughters, both of whom are in their 20s: Don't let your hunger for success keep you from enjoying life. "When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. DON'T MISS: Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

Persons: It'll, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Gates, Gates, Elon Musk, CNBC's David Faber, I've, Musk, Kelly Evans Organizations: Microsoft, Northern Arizona University, Tesla

☆ Alan Menken on ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Mixed Blessing of Disney Fame
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

What was it like working with Lin-Manuel Miranda on new songs for “The Little Mermaid”? I gave him a little Caribbean tune thinking he would lyricize that, and in fact, he rapped over it! In 1997, David Horn, now the executive producer of PBS’s “Great Performances” series, told The New York Times, “When there’s a Sondheim musical, everyone refers to it as a Sondheim musical. When it’s something Alan has done, they refer to it as a Disney musical.” Do you still mind your shows being known as Disney musicals? I sometimes would have a little resistance to simply being characterized as “Disney composer Alan Menken” because I already had a huge hit with “Little Shop of Horrors” before I went to Disney.

☆ Elon Musk says he's upped his sleep to 6 hours per night—and that his old routine hurt his brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says his days of trying to sleep less and work more are over — at least, relatively speaking. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours [of sleep per night]." Now he gets at least seven hours of sleep, he wrote in a 2019 blog post. Musk often works seven days per week and only takes "two or three" truly workless vacation days per year, he said on Tuesday. "I work seven days a week, but I'm not expecting others to do that."

☆ Elon Musk's productivity hack is taking 2 or 3 days off a year, working 7 days a week, and getting 6 hours of sleep a night
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He told CNBC's David Faber he works throughout the year except for "two or three" days. Musk's obsession with long working hours has been extensively covered by the media. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX told CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday that he pretty much works throughout the year. It's probably about two or three," he told Faber. After acquiring Twitter in October, Musk told the BBC he sleeps on a couch in the library at the company's San Francisco headquarters.

☆ You Can Ignore the Bridezilla in the Breakroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Roxane Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

My colleagues plan to host a lunch and purchase a wedding gift for her. My budget is extremely tight and I bring my lunch to work every day because I don’t have any extra money. I’ve decided to ignore the email and avoid work that day. You clearly don’t like this person, so don’t contribute to her wedding gift or lunch and don’t give that choice a second thought. It’s easy to buy into the idea that if you’re human, if you can’t work yourself into the ground without consequence, you are failing.

☆ Work-Life Balance Is Harder to Find Thanks to Pandemic and Office Mandates
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

The insidious creep of job burnout was inescapable when I spoke with more than a dozen ambitious midcareer women for an article last winter. While work friendships can stifle loneliness, the centrality of a job in American social life does not bode particularly well for Americans' work-life balance. For those who've put all their eggs in the proverbial basket of their job, Koretz said, these times of transition can trigger a kind of identity crisis. The idea is that you just work and work and work and work and work. Workers can also take small steps toward improving their work-life balance by setting aside time each day and each week for nonwork priorities.

☆ High-earning, workaholic men are cutting their work hours the most right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Men who used to work the most cut their work weeks by three hours on average since 2020. At a conference last week, Yongseok Shin, a Washington University in St. Louis professor who worked on the study, said those groups are educated young men, high-earning men, and men who previously worked the most hours. It contrasts with another important trend for young men in the workforce: even though educated, highly paid men are working fewer hours, they're still working. Having access to remote and hybrid work opportunities likely convinced men making more money that they didn't need to work so hard, Shin said. Men who previously worked 55-hour weeks are paring backIn the NBER study, Shin said, men in the "top hours decile" reduced their hours from 55 hours per week in 2019 to 52 in 2022.

☆ Why so many Americans hate their work hours
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Ethan Dodd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Lower-income workers want to work more, and higher-income workers want to work less. In fact, nearly a quarter of low-income workers making less than $47,000 a year want to work more hours. On the flipside, almost a third of middle- and high-income workers say they work too many hours, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday. Workers are left either wanting to work more but can't get the hours, or they want to work less but feel they shouldn't. When surveyed, lower-income workers would likely jump at the opportunity to work more hours to earn more.

☆ Paternity leave: In Japan, it's four weeks, but men are too afraid to take it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Japanese men are entitled to four weeks of flexible paternity leave, on up to 80% of their salary, under a bill passed by the Japanese parliament in 2021. While it is illegal to discriminate against workers who take maternity and paternity leave in Japan, Iwahashi said workers on fixed-term contracts were particularly vulnerable. And anyway, “A little tweak on paternity leave won’t significantly change a declining birth rate,” he added. He also unveiled a plan aimed at boosting the uptake of paternity leave by encouraging firms to disclose their performance. But he saw a silver lining in encouraging paternity leave.

☆ An A.I. chatbot asked Bill Gates what he wishes he could tell his younger self — here’s what he said
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Recently, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder sat down with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the two answered questions generated by an AI chatbot. In past interviews, Gates has also said he'd tell his younger self to "read a lot" and "explore the developing world" as a traveler. "I never asked [Microsoft employees] to work any harder, or be tougher on their mistakes, than I was on myself," Gates told the "Armchair Expert" podcast in 2020. Eventually, Gates had to learn to lighten up, he told Sunak — especially as Microsoft grew. "For the small, early Microsoft group, that was OK," Gates said.

☆ Everyone's freaking out about SVB because everyone else is freaking out about SVB
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But the real star — or perhaps supernova — of Thursday was SVB Financial, which saw shares drop as much as 62%. As you can imagine, the past year has not been kind to SVB. SVB had to sell a $21 billion bond portfolio for a $1.8 billion loss (thanks a lot, interest rates!). It wasn't long before reports started rolling in about VCs instructing their founders to get their money out. Here's more on the tech founders trying to calm everyone down amid the chaos.

☆ Overworking can be contagious. Here are 3 tips for keeping up with a workaholic colleague without burning out, according to a careers expert.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Overworking is contagious, according to Melody Wilding, an executive coach and author. Having a workaholic as a colleague can make employees feel like it is impossible to keep up. Here are three tips for working with a workaholic colleague without becoming one yourself. "Setting these expectations is really important with the workaholic because it's about not feeling pressure to keep up," she said. Find out what's important for youAttempting to keep up with a workaholic is a losing battle, Wilding said.

☆ Matt Gaetz tried playing kingmaker during the House speaker vote after spending 2 years as a political pariah. Republicans say the grandstanding is unlikely to stop.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz was a key player in the House speaker vote fight. "I don't think this guy's looking to be a policymaker," the GOP strategist told Insider. Doug Heye, a former House leadership aide turned GOP strategist, said the jury's still very much out on Gaetz's motivations and his endgame. Or, it could be as easy as believing that guy who donned a gas mask to ridicule a House vote on COVID-19 relief is committed to troublemaking. Not a workaholicA former House GOP leadership aide said Gaetz's reputation precedes him on Capitol HIll.

☆ To be successful, let go of false ideas about sacrifice and productivity, says president of the American Psychological Association
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

As of 2023 she is the president of the American Psychological Association. Before that, she was the coordinator at Princeton's University's SHARE program which offered programming and support to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment. And before that she received her doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke University and did her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical Center. "It's time to let go of the false dichotomy, or the false choice, which is we believe that in order to be successful I have to abandon myself," she says. Bryant: A common misconception is people think "if I try not to think about it I'll get over it."

☆ I am a working mom who wants to ask to go down to 4 days a week. Will that kill my career?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Insider's latest work-advice column is about a mom who wants to go down to a four-day workweek. She worries she'll regret not spending enough time with her kids but also fears for her career. I feel like I'm missing my kids' lives and I don't want to have any regrets on my deathbed. I'm considering asking my boss if I can work four days a week. Strober suggests saying something like, "I know that you prioritize work over just about everything.

☆ Why Paid Sabbaticals Are Good for Business: Better Employees, Less Burnout
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Crissie Hoskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

And through it all, I didn't get fired, there was no formal reprimand, and I got paid the entire time. Sabbaticals provide a proactive hedge against employee burnout, an antidote for attrition, and a protection from career wanderlust. Some employers argue that offering paid time off won't help keep employees around, but my sabbatical made me more passionate about my work — and my workplace — than ever. I love my job and want to be sure my team and clients get the best of me. Sabbaticals are good for businessMy sabbatical wasn't an anomaly — research shows that sabbaticals help employees fight burnout and improve their well-being.

☆ Tom Zhu: Elon Musk’s right-hand man at Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Hong Kong CNN —Tesla’s China chief has reportedly been given a big promotion. Tom Zhu, Tesla's executive in charge of China, speaks as a new Tesla experience store opens near West Lake on August 18, 2015 in Hangzhou, China. Zhu joined Tesla in 2014 and has been described as “pragmatic,” “industrious” and “a workaholic” by the Chinese media. Aerial view of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory at Lingang New Area on July 11, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Tesla’s China successZhu’s reported promotion came after an impressive performance by Tesla’s China operations.

☆ A former Salesforce exec and startup COO describes her downward spiral into workaholism: 'I had to learn work boundaries the hard way'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I thought I was going to work at Salesforce my entire life; I was there for almost 12 years. But a turning point happened in my career — and really, my life — after my husband and I had a jarring conversation. On the drive home, my husband said, "You are really hard to be around right now." At Ironclad, I still worked hard — that's just who I am — but this time I worked smarter. Creating these boundaries and learning how to stick to them has helped me understand that I set the limits of my work life — not the company I work for.

It’s quite remarkable.”In his first five-year term on the Standing Committee, Wang ran the party's secretariat, an organ responsible for day-to-day affairs. In Xi's third leadership term, Wang is on track to be in charge of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body. "All the major slogans, from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, seem to have come from Wang Huning," Lam said. 'AMERICA VS. AMERICA'Where most Standing Committee members have experience such as running a major city or province, Wang is an academic. During 1989's pro-democracy student protests, Wang told Xia not to stand with the students, a warning Xia did not heed.

☆ Make the yuletide gay: Inside the making of this year's LGBTQ holiday movies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Max Gao | Max Gao Is A Freelance Entertainment | Sports Journalist Based In Toronto. He Has Written For Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Premiering Sunday on Hallmark, “The Holiday Sitter” follows Sam (Jonathan Bennett), a workaholic bachelor who reluctantly agrees to babysit his niece and nephew before his solo vacation. Jonathan Bennett, left, George Krissa and Mila Morgan in "The Holiday Sitter." Bennett, as an executive producer, originally came up with the idea of a “gay ‘Uncle Buck’ for Hallmark” on the set of another holiday movie three years ago. “We both love the Christmas holiday. After watching “The Holiday Sitter," people are “going to feel that the Hallmark holiday table is bigger than ever,” Bennett added, "and that no matter who you are, there is a seat for you."

The women's attorney, L. Chris Stewart, based in Atlanta, said the Americans died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a malfunctioning water heater. Investigators believe the trio died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Mexico City prosecutors said. Ben Jared / PGA TOUR via Getty Images fileAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, carbon monoxide poisoning is almost entirely preventable. But carbon monoxide poisoning can be especially dangerous during power outages, when people use alternative sources of fuel or electricity, such as generators. A winter storm in Texas in mid-February 2021 resulted in one of the worst carbon monoxide poisoning incidents in recent history, experts said.

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