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I’m an executive coach. I tell clients not to spend Sunday night preparing for work.
Shane Arthur, an executive coach in Raleigh, North Carolina, advises clients to avoid working on Sundays — and to start their workweeks by avoiding…
Inside New Yorkers’ hopes and fears over Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores
Phillip Grant is feeling optimistic. He thinks he’s the best man to operate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run supermarkets. Along with being a former…
At China’s robot Olympics, the finish line comes with a padded wall and a stretcher
The robot uprising may have to wait. For now, the machines are still running headfirst into walls, both literal and metaphorical. That reality was on…
When heartbreak pays the rent
Gabrielle Stone never imagined she’d get divorced, let alone that she’d tell the world about it. Her first instinct after the one-two punch of ending…
Uber driver says these 3 behaviors will get passengers a 1-star rating
Nothing annoys Uber driver Levi Spires more than a passenger who makes him wait. Riders don’t have to make conversation or tip to earn five stars…
My friend is 21 years younger. I wanted her skin; she wanted my perspective.
Three years ago, when I met someone 21 years my junior in an online class, I never thought we’d become close. Each week in a writing class, we filled…
Taking solo birthday trips abroad taught me that I don’t need company to do something meaningful
Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and…
Lettuce. Blueberries. Eggs. Jalapeños. Why are there so many food-safety scares this summer?
Bill Marler’s business is booming — and that’s not great for the rest of us. Marler is a food safety lawyer, defending people who’ve been sickened by…
I dropped out of college and now earn $159,000 as a software engineer. Lifestyle creep left me $30,000 in debt.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Devonte Duncan, 27, a software engineer living in Brooklyn…
I took a cruise with my mom and aunt. I loved it, but I made 3 mistakes.
Back in October, I embarked on a seven-night Royal Caribbean cruise across northern Spain with my mom and aunt. It had been a while since I’d…