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Business Succession Planning Lessons From Buffett’s Exit
Warren Buffett is leaving the Berkshire Hathaway chairmanship, the company said Friday, with the 96-year-old taking the title of chairman emeritus immediately and his son Howard stepping into the chair....
The Curious Power of Punctuation
Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? Source link
Hernan Diaz’s Grand Experiment
If “In the Distance” is about the lawlessness of a region that has not yet cohered into a nation, “Trust” is about a lawlessness more familiar to us today: the...
Tom Brady’s Endgame
By most measures, Brady’s childhood was idyllic. (On Google Street View, the home where he grew up resembles, fittingly, the house from “The Brady Bunch.”) But Anderson paints a picture...
Ugly Baby Is Hot but Has a Personality, Too
If you listened carefully, almost two years ago, on the day that the Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant Ugly Baby announced that it would be closing, you could almost hear a...
The Unknowable Miley Cyrus
By 2017, Cyrus was covering her tattoos with makeup, wearing all white, and singing ballads of marital devotion. The video for “Malibu,” a single from the album “Younger Now,” shows...
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV
Even before submitting the script for the pilot, Dunham was asked to write four episodes along with it. In September, the studio decided to make the pilot, and the shoot...
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Malcolm Gladwell, a longtime staff...
Interest Rate Hike Pushes the Fed Range to 4 Percent
The Federal Reserve raised rates on Wednesday afternoon. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to lift the target range by a quarter point to 3.75% to 4.00%, an interest...
How Founders Lose Control of AI Spend When Every Team Picks Its Own Model
Working with artificial intelligence is empowering until the cloud bill arrives. As startups and scaling businesses scramble to implement generative technologies, founders suddenly find themselves dealing with a quiet killer...
