This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with 49-year-old Damon Duncan, who is based in Atlanta. His identity and salary have been verified by Business Insider. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I was laid off from my job as a sales engineer in April 2023. That was the last job I…
In 2001’s “Zoolander,” Ben Stiller delivered “Magnum,” the stunning facial expression of his fictional male model character, Derek Zoolander. Twenty-four years later, Stiller walked onstage at the Cinespia movie screening of “Zoolander” to deliver that look again, shocking a crowd of fashion-lovers. On hot summer evenings at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the final resting place of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t feel comfortable with how people are consulting ChatGPT on major life decisions. “A lot of people effectively use ChatGPT as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn’t describe it that way,” Altman wrote on X on Sunday. “I can imagine a future where a…
Erik Charlotte VonSosen has always talked of her craft in a nonchalant fashion. I’ve often witnessed this whenever I see the L.A.-based designer. We go somewhere, maybe a crowded house party or a flea market, and someone strikes up a conversation. They may be a stylist, an industry insider or simply a courageous flirt, but…
Investors might be sitting on a secret weapon that could send stocks soaring. That’s according to Wall Street strategists, who say that a big reason to be bullish on stocks in the near term is the record $7 trillion in cash investors have stored in money markets fund. That money — sidelined in assets like…
Slate Auto’s new electric vehicle is expected to be unusually cheap, priced in the mid-twenty-thousand-dollar range. Given its anticipated price point, Slate says it has seen interest from five different consumer segments as it prepares to enter the market, CEO Chris Barman said in a recent interview with Sherwood News. First, Barman said that “everyday…
Big Tech companies are soon going to let investors know if all the hype is still worth it. Amid tariff turmoil and market uncertainty, the tech trade continues to power the S&P 500 higher. With mega-cap tech earnings due to kick off later this month, investors are looking for clues to know if the AI-fueled…
The federal government looks like it is taking a page out of Silicon Valley’s playbook. The US Office of Personnel Management issued a memo on June 17 announcing sweeping reforms to performance management in the federal government. And the move to cut low performers looks a lot like what’s been happening at major tech companies. The…
If you’re bored of the unadorned silk dresses and plain white linen sets that supposedly whisper wealth and status, then you’re not alone. Restrained dressing under the guise of trends like quiet luxury and East Coast summer has produced stifling guidance against bold silhouettes, loud colors, and quirky accessories. But Damson Madder embraces joyful maximalism…
Bin X. Nguyen came of age in the mid-2000s at the height of celebrity paparazzi culture, watching MTV, poring over Teen Vogue, and following icons like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie from his bedroom in the suburbs of San Jose. “Escaping the mundane life of suburbia was really what influenced my childhood,” Nguyen says. “When…