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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Paul Burke, 42, the CEO and cofounder of Vantory, an AI startup that streamlines vacation rental operations for property managers. He previously built a 64-home rental portfolio in Colorado and sold it in 2026 after two years. The following has been edited for length and clarity.If you’d asked me two years ago if I’d ever be running a property management company, I probably would’ve told you you’re crazy.One of my sisters lives in Winter Park, Colorado. She’s a real estate agent, and I was visiting her and met her boss, who…

Six months after my husband, Kenny, and I got married, we started saving and looking for a house.After going to showings almost every weekend for several months, we finally came across a property with a lot of potential. It was only a little over 1,000 square feet and not much of a looker, but there was a creek in the backyard and a huge deck. The catch: it needed a lot of work.The place had stained drop ceilings, old wiring, seven layers of flooring in the kitchen, turf-green carpet, zero insulation, and no doors beyond the front, back, and basement…

DETROIT — Automakers including Ford Motor and Rivian Automotive are leaning into a new type of manufacturing line: 3D printing.Manufacturers say it’s helping them reduce costs and increase speed. The technology has been around for decades, but it’s becoming more commoditized in the automotive industry, with 3D printers used to create everything from vehicle parts and accessories to tools for assembly plants and testing units for research and development labs.”At this point, we don’t have a choice but to scale up and begin using it through all factions of Rivian,” Jared Beck, head of Rivian’s additive manufacturing, told CNBC during…

When my phone rang during my senior year of high school, it was Florida Atlantic University calling. I didn’t know that answering would change the trajectory of my life.I had 48 hours to decide whether to take a chance on an opportunity that seemed too good to be true: the opportunity to graduate debt-free.After a last-minute decision to apply, I was admitted to Florida Atlantic University’s Kelly/Strul Emerging Scholars Program, which provides a fully funded, four-year scholarship package.The moment I received the call, a weight was lifted from both my family and me. College was no longer something my parents…

Like many CEOs, Asana’s Dan Rogers uses what his company sells. That means letting AI agents steer his workday.Asana makes a platform for connecting all work across a business, and it expanded in 2024 to let users collaborate with AI agents. Rogers, 49, took the top job the following year, and now regularly taps the bots to manage everything from his calendar and inbox to customer relationships and engineering priorities.His routine is a modern-day approach to the problem that led former Facebook engineering leaders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein to found Asana in 2008: freeing people to spend less time…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Hanna, the CEO of Cedar’s Foods, based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When my father came to the United States from Lebanon in the 1960s, he fell in love with this beautiful country. In 1981, he decided to start a hummus company, even though it was not yet common in the US. When he told my mother, she called her sister and said, “My husband is going crazy. Who is going to buy hummus?”My mother made samples, which my father would take to the…

This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Jennifer Rosner, 42, who lives in the suburbs of Chicago. At 36, Rosner moved into an apartment complex with mostly older residents. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.In 2019, I had moved jobs, and the office was in the suburbs. I didn’t want to commute from downtown Chicago, so I decided to bite the bullet and go to the suburbs. It’s a slower life and not great for dating. Everyone’s married with children.I moved into a newly built apartment building, and it turned out to be predominantly older…

The spookiest day of the year is getting especially bone-chilling at the grocery store.Halloween candy lovers are in for a fright when they stock up for trick-or-treating (or personal consumption): Prices for candy and chewing gum have grown 7.7% year-over-year in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, far outpacing general inflation of 3.7% in the same period. That means candy prices have grown faster than breakfast cereal, meats, and apparel. Broadly, inflation has surpassed wage growth for each of the past six months. In candy terms, that means that an hour of work will earn the average worker…

There’s a sweeping “manifesto” that’s making the rounds with software engineers — and many say it’s dead on.Proton CTO Bart Butler wrote a three-page sermon on the state of coding, as reported by 404 Media. The memo explains that the role of the engineer is no longer what it once was, and the company must adapt to the state of AI.”Your job has fundamentally changed,” the memo reads. “It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster.”Proton did not respond…

Workers remove downed trees from the East Potomac golf course on Monday. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption i Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge is launching a formal inquiry into potential misconduct by Trump administration officials in the lawsuit over East Potomac Park, including whether they repeatedly misrepresented the president’s plans for the municipal D.C. golf course. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered Friday’s hearing — the third in as many weeks — to seek clarity from government lawyers days after they acknowledged in writing Wednesday that there is a plan to transform the municipal golf…