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There’s something offensive about the word “hobby.” It evokes images of building model train towns in a basement, poorly crocheting a potholder, or, even worse, playing pickleball. Hobbies are for people who instead of pursuing a rewarding career settled for tinkering, toying, and toddling. Or so I thought until I realized that getting a hobby is probably the best thing you could ever do for your one sweet life — especially if you let it take over your life.I used to feel sad for hobby people. Unlike them, I carried the burden of dreaming of being a capital W Writer.…

A 1963 Chevrolet K20 pickup truck and a new Chevrolet Silverado EV sit outside General Motors’ new world headquarters on Jan. 6, 2026 in Detroit.Michael Wayland | CNBCDETROIT – Outside General Motors’ new world headquarters, between the 12-story building and the city’s first new skyscraper in more than 30 years, sit two red Chevrolet pickup trucks. One is a 1963 Chevrolet K20. The other is a new Silverado EV. The trucks, while part of a temporary holiday display, are symbolic of what’s inside the new global offices for the Detroit automaker: its past and present, woven together.GM is occupying four…

California has a lot of billionaires, more than any other state and more than most countries. So a proposed wealth tax on its billionaires could be a windfall, if they stick around.Under the Billionaire Tax Act, California residents worth over $1 billion would face a one-time tax totaling 5% of their assets.If the tax plan receives enough signatures, it will appear on the ballot in November and, if passed, would apply retroactively to billionaires living in the state as of January 1. The tax would be due in 2027, with the option to spread the payment out over five years,…

Bill Ackman did not mince words when giving his opinion of President Donald Trump’s call for a temporary cap on credit card rates.In a since-deleted X post, the hedge fund billionaire said late on Friday that Trump’s call for a 10% cap on credit card interest for one year was a “mistake” that could lead to millions having their cards canceled.”This is a mistake President,” Ackman wrote. “Without being able to charge rates adequate enough to cover losses and to earn an adequate return on equity, credit card lenders will cancel cards for millions of consumers who will have to…

Overall, Singh, 32, was happy. He loved living in San Jose, California, and he was planning to propose to his then-girlfriend, Sharan Samra, 28, by the end of the year.His work as an engineering lead at Google, though, wasn’t completely fulfilling him.”I was feeling very frustrated with the way the job was going, the way that things were completely out of my control,” he told Business Insider. He added that he wanted a creative outlet and a project he could have more control over.As he considered his situation, Singh decided it might be time to make a long-held dream come…

The booming GLP-1 space was built on weekly injections. In 2026, new obesity pills will push the market into its next chapter.Patients are already getting their hands on the first GLP-1 pill for obesity from Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk — a once-daily drug that shares the same brand name as its popular injection Wegovy. A GLP-1 pill from the company’s chief rival Eli Lilly isn’t far behind, with a U.S. approval expected within months. For some people, pills may serve as a more convenient — and potentially cheaper — alternative to today’s blockbuster injections. The cash prices of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy…

Pixdeluxe | E+ | Getty ImagesIt often starts small.A dab of concealer. A tinted moisturizer. Maybe a brow gel that goes from borrowed to bought. For many men, like Daniel Rankin, makeup has transformed from something taboo into a tool to make them look less tired and more put together.”I remember thinking, ‘Am I really doing this?'” Rankin, a 24-year-old advertising agent from New York who likes to shop at Sephora, told CNBC. “But once I tried it, it just became normal.”In front of bathroom mirrors and in gym locker rooms, more men are now adding cosmetics to their routines,…

Last year, I sat in my office staring at the three monitors on my desk. On the screens were my online bank accounts — all of which were channeling Whoopi Goldberg’s character from the movie “Ghost.””You in danger, girl,” they seemed to be saying, mocking me.I spent decades building a career, collecting titles, degrees, and glowing reviews. Yet the numbers on my bank statements told a different story. The stability I assumed would come with age and experience kept slipping through my fingers, and I realized there’s a thin line between “doing well” and “barely holding on.”I came of age…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dom Jones, 39, a teacher and entrepreneur who moved from the US to Taipei, Taiwan, in the fall of 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Asia has always drawn me in. I grew up in the Los Angeles area, and one of the cities that I lived in was Long Beach, California.Long Beach has probably one of the largest Cambodian populations in the world outside of Cambodia itself. I went to school with a lot of Asian classmates in a very diverse community. So it was my life.I…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chrissy Traore, 41, who opened See & Be Kitchen with her husband Ben Salif Traore in Cairo, New York, about 40 miles from Albany, New York. When their business expanded quickly, they began running parts of it out of shipping containers on their property. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.Ben and I met while I was a chef and he was a baker. We worked at the same restaurant — they had a bakery and a restaurant right next door, and I was their pizza chef and he…