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Enes Yilmazer: Inside the $35.5 Million French Chateau Mega Mansion That Took a Decade to Build in Calabasas

October 4, 2026

A Calabasas estate a decade in the making, priced at $35.5 million and spanning nearly

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Taylor Bell: In-N-Out Has 440 Locations and $2.6 Billion in Revenue From Just Four Menu Items

September 28, 2026

In-N-Out Burger runs 440 locations, owns its own $30 million processing facilities, pays store managers

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School of Hard Knocks: Beverly Hills Billionaire James Goldstein Opens His $100 Million Mansion and Shares How He Built His Fortune

September 25, 2026

James Goldstein has lived in his Beverly Hills estate for 60 years, built his fortune

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Silicon Valley Girl: The 10 Highest-Paying Jobs of the Next Decade (And 5 That Are Already Disappearing)

September 21, 2026

More than 750,000 office and administrative support jobs are projected to disappear from the US

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Ghost Town Living: He Thought His Mining Claim Had No Gold. A Fire Assay Just Proved Him Wrong.

September 14, 2026

Brent spent a year pulling rock from a legally claimed mining site and walked away

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Sierra Clark: Lloyd Kahn Skateboards at 91 and His Doctor Told Him to Stop

September 8, 2026

Lloyd Kahn started skateboarding at 65, fractured his arm badly enough to lose consciousness, drove

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iamBrandon: Brandon DoorDashed in the Hollywood Hills for 24 Hours and Nearly Didn't Survive

September 8, 2026

Brandon spent 24 hours DoorDashing through gated celebrity compounds and uphill pizza deliveries in Hollywood

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carly king: Inside George Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art: Star Wars Props, Models, and Costumes Up Close

September 8, 2026

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles pulled the Lucasfilm archives into the

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Architectural Digest: The Stall Family Bought the Lot Nobody Wanted for $13,500 and Built One of Architecture's Most Famous Homes

September 7, 2026

Clarence Stall bought a hilltop lot nobody wanted for $13,500 and a handshake, hauled concrete

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Peter Bjorndal: Inside the Tardigrade House: A Week with Architect Eugene Tssui in Berkeley

September 7, 2026

Peter Bjorndal spent a week inside Eugene Tssui's tardigrade-inspired fish house in Berkeley, California, a

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: GoPro Finally Lets You Swap Lenses and Filmmakers Are Already Losing Their Minds

September 4, 2026

GoPro's new interchangeable lens system lets filmmakers attach anamorphic glass and cinema zooms to a

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Y Combinator: Paul Graham Says the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Comes From the Right Founders, Not the Right Idea

September 4, 2026

Paul Graham sat down at Y Combinator's original Mountain View offices to explain why the

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