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I was in the room when Zuckerberg shared his AI victory lap with a thicc Muse mascot
Mark Zuckerberg swaggers onstage to thunderous applause and a sea of raised phones. He is wearing a T-shirt that reads “BUILDING IS MY LOVE…
I sent my daughter to wellness camp instead of lacrosse camp. She learned how to do nothing.
“So, lacrosse camps this summer?” a parent asked me last spring. It was the kind of question I had answered many times before. For years, summer…
We’ve flown and taken long road trips with my toddler. A 9-hour Amtrak ride tested our parenting skills.
Once we settled, we attempted to get Allie to take a nap, but were repeatedly unsuccessful. We took her to the bathroom six times, asked her to stop…
I can clean my own house. I’d rather pay someone to do it and spend Saturday with my family.
Cleaning my house sometimes feels like an exercise in futility. Benjamin Franklin wrote that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. I…
Google partners with veterans groups to help 25,000 enter skilled trades
Exclusive: Google on Thursday announced a new initiative to partner with veterans groups to help 25,000 veterans, service members and military…
I’ve visited all 63 major US national parks. Here are 10 of my all-time favorites.
Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park (not to be confused with Glacier National Park in Montana) might be a slightly controversial choice. As much of…
I sit with people while they complete their to-do lists. It’s been a surprising way to turn patience into a side hustle.
I never thought of myself as particularly patient. Then, my hairdresser mentioned that she’d had the same giant basket of unfolded laundry sitting in…
Starbucks plans to close 250 North American coffeehouses this week
Starbucks announced plans to close roughly 250 stores across North America this week, company COO Mike Grams revealed Thursday. Grams announced the…
A Nobel Prize-winning economist explained why he’s backing California’s billionaire tax
Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu took to X on Wednesday to explain why he had signed a letter backing California’s billionaire tax. The…
Starbucks is closing 250 stores. Read the memo it sent to staff.
Starbucks said on Thursday that it will be closing 250 underperforming locations across North America. COO Mike Grams told staff in a memo that a…