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When Jeremy Spiegel was looking for work in 2009, it was clear why finding a job might be difficult: it was the depths of the Great Recession.But when he lost his director role at a publishing company in 2024, there was no recession to blame. Spiegel, who’s in his 40s and lives in Massachusetts, has spent two years looking for work — despite having more than twenty years of experience.”I’ve been told so many times a version of ‘It’s not you, it’s us’ that I am beginning to wonder if it is, in fact, me,” Spiegel said.He said others have…

Domino’s is finally launching a truly personal pizza. Yay! Right? Except that the company’s announcement about it is weirdly sad. Hungry diners will be able to customize “without compromise,” it says, avoid “sacrifice,” and share a meal without actually sharing. Of course, pizza’s not that deep, but that’s sort of the point. We should generally be able to come to an agreement on olives and pepperoni.A growing number of Americans are eating by themselves — the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey shows that as of 2023, over a quarter of Americans spent most of their eating and…

Shopify’s chief operating officer has one word to describe employees that will thrive in the AI era: “X-shaped.”On an episode of the “Rapid Response” podcast released on Wednesday, Jess Hertz said that Shopify previously embraced the idea of a “T-shaped person” — someone with broad capabilities but deep expertise in one area. AI is changing that model.”What I think we’re starting to see is AI is really pushing towards what I’m calling X-shaped people,” Hertz said. “You have different vectors of expertise, and you’re really moving away from just the expectation that you have to have depth in this one area.”She…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dean Chou, a 53-year-old US citizen who moved back to Taiwan to be closer to his aging parents. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was born in Taiwan, and moved to Los Angeles in 1999 for college.After graduation, I got hired as a product coordinator for a lighting fixture company. I worked between the American office and the factories in China, and that’s how I learned about procurement. Chou became a US citizen in 2018 and built a whole life for himself there.  Provided by Dean Chou. Around 2009, when…

Good Good’s CEO and president are out on Wednesday in the latest twist at the beleaguered YouTube golf collective, according to a memo seen by Business Insider.Nahid Giga, one of the company’s founders and an early investor, will step in as interim CEO, according to a memo shared by Alex Puchala, who leads finance and operations at Good Good.Outgoing CEO Matt Kendrick, also one of Good Good’s founders, had publicly blasted Callaway after the golf company ended its partnership with the YouTuber group over a controversial ad it made in a partnership with Callaway.Puchala called it a difficult day for…

The NBA on Wednesday said it had suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer for one year as part of a broad array of sanctions on the basketball team and its two most senior executives for violating the league’s salary cap circumvention rules related to star player Kawhi Leonard and four companies that did business with the team.Ballmer “knowingly” sought to help Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities” worth millions of dollars, and approved a business deal that Ballmer “knew was a precondition for Aspiration Partners to enter into an endorsement agreement with Mr. Leonard, and for his failure to create…

Bill Simmons has said he authorized another person to place sports bets on his behalf, but don’t expect the podcasting star to get more than a slap on the wrist.Simmons, who runs Spotify’s podcast strategy, said on his show on Sunday that he’d enlisted his daughter’s boyfriend to log into his account and place NFL futures bets for him.The issue is that Simmons lives in California, where online sports betting is illegal, and his daughter’s boyfriend lives in Massachusetts, where it’s legal. So-called “proxy betting” is illegal under Massachusetts state law.Simmons’ bets have caused a stir, especially since he said…

With America’s debt mounting and oil prices on the rise again, the bond market has been gripped by a sell-off this week.Market jitters were first triggered last week, following Scott Bessent’s plan to have the Treasury as much as double its long-dated bond purchases. The move briefly quelled yields, but they rose again as investors feared the government wasn’t tackling the big fiscal issues that have been driving yields higher all year. In the days that followed, a flare-up of US-Iran tension has driven oil back within striking distance of $100 per barrel, throwing fuel on inflation fears and recalibrating…

Amazon customers are taking aim at the e-commerce giant over its email etiquette.Earlier this summer, some Amazon customers started seeing generic descriptions instead of exact ones in receipts and other order-related emails. An engine air filter for a car, for example, might now appear in the emails as an “automotive item” and require the reader to check Amazon’s website or app for more details about the order.It’s a change that has drawn ire from some Amazon shoppers. Amazon made a similar change to its emails in 2020, but eventually rolled it back.One Reddit post, for instance, has attracted 450 comments…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Teri Williams, president and chief operating officer of OneUnited Bank. It has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up in Indiantown, Florida, I used to follow my great-grandmother around, whom I called Ma Honey. Ma Honey owned a penny candy store, a barbecue place, and a juke joint, where I learned how to play pool. She also owned rental properties, and I’d go with her to collect the rents.Ma Honey’s businesses shielded her family from the dangers of a segregated southern town. Her money also gave our family opportunities: she paid…