I built my tiny home from scratch for under $50,000. Doing it all myself was hard, but the money I'm saving is worth it.

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Margo Fairchild in front of her Virginia tiny home.

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I ate at Gordon Ramsay, Lisa Vanderpump, and Giada De Laurentiis' Las Vegas restaurants. One got every dish right.

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Rigatoni vodka pasta at GIADA in Las Vegas
I tried Giada De Laurentiis, Gordon Ramsay, and Lisa Vanderpump's Las Vegas restaurants.

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I'm in my 50s, can't find a job, and am already draining my 401k. I've never felt closer to failure.

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Laura Lynch is taking a coding course and leaning on family to get by.

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I'm a 76-year-old baby boomer who has kept up with technology. It's helped me grow in my career and stay relevant.

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The author is a baby boomer who chose to keep up with technology.

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We went back to Ukraine and were stunned at how much its weapons have evolved in just one year

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DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE - MARCH 9: Soldiers from the 93rd Brigade's drone unit test fiber optic drones before using them on the front line in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on March 9, 2026.
Ukrainian soldiers are relying more on shotguns for last-resort drone defense.

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Sam Altman says Paul Graham and Peter Thiel taught him a key lesson about investing

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised legendary investor Paul Graham for the lessons he taught him.

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I thought working for myself would make motherhood easier. I couldn't have been more wrong.

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The author (middle) with her two sons says she now has regrets about her work-life balance when her kids were younger.

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Blackstone's Jon Gray goes jogging and goes viral. I took a run with him.

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Large group of runners in black shirts jog together on a tree-lined road in bright sunlight.
Jon Gray and summer analysts ran through Central Park on Thursday.

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The $25,000 Slate truck is proudly bare-bones. I think these add-ons are worth the extra money.

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Ben Shimkus, a reporter at Business Insider, stands in front of the base model Slate Truck.
The base model Slate has a lot of driving verve — but here's what I couldn't live without.

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Read the cold LinkedIn outreach that led Fishwife's CEO to hire a candidate

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Becca Millstein said this one LinkedIn message stood out.

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