I wanted my daughter to graduate from college debt-free, so I bought a storage unit business. It paid for her entire tuition.
The author owns a storage unit business to pay for her daughter’s college tuition. Storing other people’s shot glass collections is not what I dreamed about doing when I was a little girl. I didn’t visualize myself shoveling out storage units full of cat toys, abandoned tires, chainsaw parts, and cheese graters. But when it…
A personal trainer helped her mom start strength training for longevity at age 58. 4 things have helped her stick with the habit for 5 years.
Sohee Carpenter (center) has trained her mom Grace Lee on and off for five years. Grace Lee, 63, grew up in a time when the weights room at the gym was considered strictly for men. However, in recent years, growing research has demonstrated the health benefits of resistance training for people of all ages and…
My 6-figure consulting job wasn’t fulfilling. I quit to start my own business when I realized dream company doesn’t necessarily mean dream life.
AJ Eckstein is a former consultant and the founder of Creator Match. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with AJ Eckstein, a 25-year-old former management consultant and the founder and CEO of Creator Match from Austin. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I interned at the Walt Disney Company the summer after…
Monsters walk among us — and they’re watching Netflix at 1.5x speed.
Consider the delicate, nuanced performances of a Netflix series like “The Diplomat.” Now, imagine that sped up by 50%, “Chipmunks”-style. This might not appeal to you, a cinéaste who savors the art of the flickering screen. But for some people, this is the dream: They’re watching Netflix at 1.5x speed. But … why? What craven…
I moved my family to Puerto Rico for a job. They were miserable — and we returned to Pennsylvania after just a year.
Puerto Rico is beautiful but it never felt like home for my family. In 2015, the opportunity to move from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico presented itself by way of a job offer with a med-tech company. I’d lived there when I was younger and my wife at the time and two younger daughters were excited…
Private jet usage is way up for 2 reasons
Flying private has gotten a lot more popular over the last several years. The number of miles flown by private jets soared 53% between 2019 and 2023, while the number of private aircraft rose by 28%, according to a major new study published in Nature. Two big factors led to that spike in private flights:…
Silicon Valley is on edge as Trump’s immigration policy sparks fears of a high-tech talent shortage
“Our high skilled immigration system is frozen in time,” Box CEO Aaron Levie recently posted on X. Many in the tech industry are concerned that President Donald Trump will make it harder to hire immigrants, sapping an important source of technical talent for the sector. “If the backlash against immigrants impacts the flow of really…
How Reddit went mainstream
Once a niche site for internet obsessives, it’s become everyone’s favorite digital hangout. For a long time, Reddit felt like it wasn’t a place for everyone. Not that everyone couldn’t be there — it’s free to join, completely anonymous, and you can lurk without an account — but it was also a weird, sometimes dark…
‘Animal spirits’: 7 market strategists share how to ride the red wave as US stocks surge to new records
Donald Trump won the presidency, though not quite as easily as he got the Republican nomination. Wall Street is in love with Donald Trump, as if there was ever any doubt. A robust, multi-year bull market rally for US stocks reached another gear after the businessman-turned-politician won the presidential election. The S&P 500 just topped…
