“Richard Marcinko was a gentleman that trained CIA officers and special-ops people how to endure torture. He gave me a litany of things that I could do when I began to spiral.”⁠ ⁠ For his role in the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which came out in 2000, Jim Carrey’s tortuous costume and makeup had him on the verge of walking away from a $20 million paycheck.⁠ ⁠ In an interview with Vulture, the actor said the first day of makeup took eight hours. He nearly quit and suffered from panic attacks. But before he walked away, producer Brian Grazer hired the founder of SEAL Team Six to help Carrey suck it up.⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/A93b98V

Former Russian banking tycoon Oleg Tinkov says a single Instagram post condemning the war in Ukraine cost him nearly $9 billion, after he was forced to sell his stake in his bank for a fraction of its real value. He described the episode as a “hostage” situation that shows how dissenting billionaires are brought to heel in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Tinkov, the founder of Tinkoff Bank, was once celebrated as one of Russia’s wealthiest bankers. That status changed dramatically in April 2022, when he used Instagram to denounce the war as “insane” and to criticize Russia’s military as poorly prepared and riddled with corruption. As CNBC reported at the time, Tinkov claimed 90% of Russians opposed the war, and the remaining 10% were “morons.” He urged an immediate and “face-saving” end to the war. Tinkov told the BBC recently that within a day of that post, senior executives at his bank received a call from officials linked to the Kremlin, delivering a stark ultimatum. Either Tinkov’s stake would be sold and his name scrubbed from the brand, or the bank—then one of Russia’s largest lenders—would be nationalized. Read more: https://trib.al/pI3V13X

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has gone from the bottom to becoming a multi-billionaire, but that doesn’t mean he’s above doing the little tasks. ⁠ ⁠ The 62-year-old CEO of the world’s most valuable company said his humble roots as a dishwasher have, in fact, helped him learn to spurn no task. ⁠ ⁠ “You can’t show me a task that is beneath me,” he said in an interview with Stanford’s graduate school of business, which recently resurfaced on X.⁠ ⁠ Even in his most humble of jobs, the world’s ninth-richest man never shied away from the dirty work.⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/BE0RBUy

Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product Gemini is making possible today.⁠ ⁠ Page, who started Google with cofounder Sergey Brin, served in his first stint as CEO from the company’s founding in 1998 until 2001 when he was replaced by Eric Schmidt, who would serve in the role for a decade.⁠ ⁠ When Google was founded, the concept of the search engine was still fairly new. Google took it to the next level with its PageRank algorithm, which looked at hyperlinks between webpages to rank the best results rather than using keywords.⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/ENRy8Ce

Some may call Franz von Holzhausen’s accidental destruction of a Tesla Cybertruck window a blunder; von Holzhausen would prefer to call it a “great meme” instead.⁠ ⁠ During the 2019 reveal of the Tesla Cybertruck, von Holzhausen, the company’s chief designer, threw steel balls at the vehicle, intending to demonstrate the windows CEO Elon Musk that said were made of “armor glass” were indeed extra tough. The windows, however, unexpectedly shattered, leaving Musk to deliver the rest of his presentation of the new truck while standing in front of the damaged car. Tesla’s stock fell more than 5% the next day.⁠ ⁠ While the incident seemed like an omen, indicative of the Cybertruck being poised to fail, the botched demonstration actually opened up an opportunity to give the new model a spotlight, von Holzhausen said in an interview with Tesla Club Austria published earlier this year.⁠ ⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/RtfCxBk

While AI has been celebrated as a productivity hack for many job functions, it’s largely been criticized by creatives for taking the humanity out of their work. But billionaire Mark Cuban thinks they should have a different attitude about the technology. ⁠ ⁠ “Creators should LOVE AI. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative,” the former Shark Tank star and Dallas Mavericks owner wrote in a recent post on X. “It allows creators to become exponentially more creative.”⁠ ⁠ He argued AI can be a massive time saver for creatives, helping them develop a product “in minutes” rather than spending hours, days, or weeks on their iterations. ⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/NX5v2Jx

“It seems very likely to a large number of people that we will get massive unemployment caused by AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” said.⁠ ⁠ “And if you ask where are these guys going to get the roughly trillion dollars they’re investing in data centers and chips… one of the main sources of money is going to be by selling people AI that will do the work of workers much cheaper. And so these guys are really betting on AI replacing a lot of workers.”⁠ ⁠ Hinton has grown increasingly vocal about what he sees as Big Tech’s misplaced priorities.⁠ Read more: https://trib.al/3oHFvDa

It’s easier to get into an Ivy League school than it is to land a job at $268 billion banking giant Goldman Sachs. But unlike the colleges, the business isn’t chasing the most intelligent minds floating into their talent pools. David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman’s, said the most attractive candidates are in touch with “human elements” like the ability to connect, be resilient, and determined. They always need to be striving for excellence—and on top of everything else, should come to Goldman Sachs with a proven track record. Experience, Solomon said, is “hugely underrated” and “a big differentiator for the firm.” Read more: https://fortune.com/2025/12/22/goldman-sachs-ceo-best-job-candidate-isnt-smartest-person-in-world-hires-just-smart-enough-talent-this-reason-experience-over-book-smart-college-degrees/

Sander van ’t Noordende, the global CEO of Randstad, which places around half a million workers in jobs every week, says the great return-to-office war is effectively over—and a new pecking order has emerged. “You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job,” van ’t Noordende tells Fortune. “That’s increasingly the story. You have to have very special technology skills or some expertise.” For everyone else, there’s no escaping at least some office time. But contrary to the hardline mandates from the likes of Amazon and JPMorgan, van ’t Noordende doesn’t think we’re going back to old-school 9-to-5, five days a week as the norm. Instead, he says a happy medium is here to stay: “The pendulum is starting to slow down… The equilibrium seems to have been found,” van ’t Noordende says, adding that with the exception of some banks in big cities, “it’s generally a hybrid model, around three to four days, plus some work from home.” Read more: https://trib.al/pjBYha7

As premium travel becomes an increasingly important part of the airline industry, a new carrier is launching that looks to offer an experience beyond first class but without the enormous cost of chartering a private jet. Florida-based Magnifica Air expects to begin service in 2027, with plans for six to seven daily departures, connecting to Miami, New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, and Houston. The airline will also offer seasonal service to Napa Valley and the Caribbean. Each plane will carry only 45 to 54 passengers—less than half what they carry for typical airlines—and there will be no overhead bins, increasing cabin space even more. Read more: https://trib.al/2gi5KDQ