Amanda Hoover
@amandahoover.bsky.social
Writing about tech and the ways it reshapes our lives for @BusinessInsider. Past lives @ WIRED, NJ.com, The Boston Globe
the Great Lock In is upon us. Personally, i am locking in for the Birds and the Phillies, but plenty of people are taking on more personal goals this fall, hoping to emerge in 2026 as a better version of themselves.
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Welcome to the Great Lock-In: Gen Z workers are embracing hustle culture for the fall.
Proteinmaxxing. Sleepmaxxing. KPImaxxing. Get ready, hustle culture is about to swallow up your entire fall.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
the Great Lock In is upon us. Personally, i am locking in for the Birds and the Phillies, but plenty of people are taking on more personal goals this fall, hoping to emerge in 2026 as a better version of themselves.
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"We're not born with a specific set of talents, and we learn from failure," Pasquerella says. "But you have to have a curriculum that allows people to learn from failure and not kick them out if they fail their first few assignments."
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America's colleges are having an identity crisis
Today's college freshmen face sky-high tuition and debt, shaky career paths, and mixed messaging on AI. Universities are scrambling to respond.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"We're not born with a specific set of talents, and we learn from failure," Pasquerella says. "But you have to have a curriculum that allows people to learn from failure and not kick them out if they fail their first few assignments."
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good morning, Go Birds, say it back
a man wearing a green shirt and a black jacket says go birds
ALT: a man wearing a green shirt and a black jacket says go birds
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September 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
good morning, Go Birds, say it back
High tuition, AI disruption, and a culture war on college campuses — is this the worst time to start pursuing a degree ever? I wrote about the challenges facing the Class of 2029 for @businessinsider.com
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America's colleges are having an identity crisis
Today's college freshmen face sky-high tuition and debt, shaky career paths, and mixed messaging on AI. Universities are scrambling to respond.
www.businessinsider.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
High tuition, AI disruption, and a culture war on college campuses — is this the worst time to start pursuing a degree ever? I wrote about the challenges facing the Class of 2029 for @businessinsider.com
www.businessinsider.com/america-coll...
www.businessinsider.com/america-coll...
Once taboo, attitudes about office romance are changing. And despite the drama around the Astronomer affair that had everyone talking this summer, many young people see a benefit to RTO — meeting dating prospects IRL instead of on apps.
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Gen Z is hot to trot for RTO
Sick of dating apps, Gen Z is looking for love in the office.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Once taboo, attitudes about office romance are changing. And despite the drama around the Astronomer affair that had everyone talking this summer, many young people see a benefit to RTO — meeting dating prospects IRL instead of on apps.
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@amandahoover.bsky.social nails "Brain rot summer" www.businessinsider.com/brain-rot-su...
August 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
@amandahoover.bsky.social nails "Brain rot summer" www.businessinsider.com/brain-rot-su...
It's August, and there's no big song or trend of the summer. No brat summer or Barbenheimer or hot girl summer — just Jet2Holiday on repeat. For @businessinsider.com, I wrote about how the season feels chaotic, squishy, and undefinable.
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Welcome to brain rot summer
No breakout song, no runaway blockbuster: Summer 2025's biggest vibe is the lack of actual vibes
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August 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's August, and there's no big song or trend of the summer. No brat summer or Barbenheimer or hot girl summer — just Jet2Holiday on repeat. For @businessinsider.com, I wrote about how the season feels chaotic, squishy, and undefinable.
www.businessinsider.com/brain-rot-su...
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Parents are more involved with their adult children. The irony: Most parents of Gen Z are Gen X, from a generation that has a reputation of being anything from free-range kids to forgotten.
I wrote about the changing trends for @businessinsider.com
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I wrote about the changing trends for @businessinsider.com
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Parents of college kids are getting unhinged in their group chats
Gen X parents are terrified to let their Gen Z kids grow up, even as they head to college. Here are the group chats to prove it.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Parents are more involved with their adult children. The irony: Most parents of Gen Z are Gen X, from a generation that has a reputation of being anything from free-range kids to forgotten.
I wrote about the changing trends for @businessinsider.com
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I wrote about the changing trends for @businessinsider.com
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Most fun I've ever had was reporting this on WTF is going on with hetero dating. It's basically what I had assumed: There are lots of smart, attractive, successful women and few men to match up. Wrote about this and my own dating woes for @businessinsider.com
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America's most eligible bachelors are suddenly drowning in women
Good men are harder than ever to find. Which is good news for the good men who are actually out there.
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May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Most fun I've ever had was reporting this on WTF is going on with hetero dating. It's basically what I had assumed: There are lots of smart, attractive, successful women and few men to match up. Wrote about this and my own dating woes for @businessinsider.com
www.businessinsider.com/big-winners-...
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This weekend, I heard several men at an upscale NYC bar use a slur thrown around by Elon Musk on the other site to yell at women who "cut" the bathroom line. Been thinking lots about the downstream effects of the broligarchs on young men as I wrote this one
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Musk, Bezos, and Zuck are going full alpha male. America's girlbosses are fed up.
As alpha male energy takes over the workplace, women are leaning out.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This weekend, I heard several men at an upscale NYC bar use a slur thrown around by Elon Musk on the other site to yell at women who "cut" the bathroom line. Been thinking lots about the downstream effects of the broligarchs on young men as I wrote this one
www.businessinsider.com/america-girl...
www.businessinsider.com/america-girl...
Bumble has new subway ads and I read one that said “dating in new york is a constant struggle” and said amen, brother — and then realized it actually said “constant adventure”
March 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Bumble has new subway ads and I read one that said “dating in new york is a constant struggle” and said amen, brother — and then realized it actually said “constant adventure”
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I spent last week in Taipei with hundreds of human rights organizations, many of which had been impacted by the US aid freeze. While we were there, news came down that even more grants had been canceled, some of which were then reinstated. "Total chaos." @wired.com
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DOGE’s Foreign Aid Cuts Have Sparked ‘Total Chaos’ Around the World
Human rights organizations say the cuts have undermined years of global democracy-building and free-speech initiatives and put the lives of their staff at risk.
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March 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I spent last week in Taipei with hundreds of human rights organizations, many of which had been impacted by the US aid freeze. While we were there, news came down that even more grants had been canceled, some of which were then reinstated. "Total chaos." @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/rights...
www.wired.com/story/rights...
Remember when the internet was fun? That was @yahoo.bsky.social's heyday. I wrote for @businessinsider.com about Yahoo's attempts to reclaim its cool as competitors like Meta and Google become more and more cringe. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-y...
Like any millennial, Yahoo wants to be seen as cool again
Yahoo lost out to Google and Meta years ago. Now it's capitalizing on the backlash against them.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Remember when the internet was fun? That was @yahoo.bsky.social's heyday. I wrote for @businessinsider.com about Yahoo's attempts to reclaim its cool as competitors like Meta and Google become more and more cringe. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-y...
Not a PR pitch hitting my inbox to go cover an in-person event featuring my ex. Is this legal???
January 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not a PR pitch hitting my inbox to go cover an in-person event featuring my ex. Is this legal???
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thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
January 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
thats ok im already fluent in anxiety
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I'm always looking for new editors and publications to work with! If you need media, tech, or wacky business/politics stories in 2025, hit me up! Reporting, analysis, columns, blogs, features, you name it. sgnover@gmail.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm always looking for new editors and publications to work with! If you need media, tech, or wacky business/politics stories in 2025, hit me up! Reporting, analysis, columns, blogs, features, you name it. sgnover@gmail.com
If you've been working remotely and phoning it in on Fridays, you're not alone. People are increasingly going out to eat on Friday afternoons and logging off early — sometimes without their bosses knowing. My latest for @businessinsider.com
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'Zero remorse': the sneaky rise of no-work Fridays
Remote workers are secretly taking three-day weekends — every weekend.
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January 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you've been working remotely and phoning it in on Fridays, you're not alone. People are increasingly going out to eat on Friday afternoons and logging off early — sometimes without their bosses knowing. My latest for @businessinsider.com
www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-rise-...
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if any Meta employees want to talk anonymously about recent changes around the company’s attitude towards LGBTQ people, chat with me on a non-work device via Signal: reece_rogers.01
January 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
if any Meta employees want to talk anonymously about recent changes around the company’s attitude towards LGBTQ people, chat with me on a non-work device via Signal: reece_rogers.01
ok and???
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January 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ok and???
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What do Fridays look like for you in a hybrid/remote work world? I'm looking to talk to people who are quietly checking out on Fridays and hitting the gym, salon, or restaurants or binging Netflix. Anonymity will be granted for this! Please DM me or email ahoover@insider.com if you want to chat.
January 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What do Fridays look like for you in a hybrid/remote work world? I'm looking to talk to people who are quietly checking out on Fridays and hitting the gym, salon, or restaurants or binging Netflix. Anonymity will be granted for this! Please DM me or email ahoover@insider.com if you want to chat.
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everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there
January 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there
My grandparents got a new coffee maker and somehow we have had an incident / coffee explosion every morning I’ve been here.
January 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My grandparents got a new coffee maker and somehow we have had an incident / coffee explosion every morning I’ve been here.
I fear the world will burst into flames when these two characters cross paths it is so wildly unnatural
Here's what we know so far about the ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘It’s Always Sunny’ crossover episode.
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December 31, 2024 at 9:34 PM
I fear the world will burst into flames when these two characters cross paths it is so wildly unnatural
My grandparents live in the woods and have a puppy (yes, both bold choices when you’re in your 80s). Now, my Gpop has a headlamp he uses to take the puppy out at night on a leash because there have been coyote sightings in the area. I do not know how he plans to fight a coyote.
December 31, 2024 at 2:17 AM
My grandparents live in the woods and have a puppy (yes, both bold choices when you’re in your 80s). Now, my Gpop has a headlamp he uses to take the puppy out at night on a leash because there have been coyote sightings in the area. I do not know how he plans to fight a coyote.