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A scene from the feature film "Dreams of Violets," which was made entirely with AI. Ash Koosha Hollywood workers, take note. An AI-made feature film headed to the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday offers a glimpse of what filmmaking jobs could look like in the future. Ash Koosha, the creative force behind "Dreams of Violets," said he brought it to life almost entirely alone from his London flat using Anthropic's Claude and other AI tools in lieu of a traditional cast and crew. It is the first fully AI-generated feature film to screen at Tribeca, one of the most competitive stages in independent cinema. An Iranian exile, Koosha said he relied on AI out of necessity to create the film, which he described as a memorial to the victims of the Iranian government's January crackdown on protesters. He said he would've preferred a full production, but he couldn't safely erect a set in Iran or put real actors' lives at risk of retaliation. "I've been subject to the prosecution, the brutality in Iran," he told Business Insider. His goal, he explained, was to create a visualization of events that the world would likely never fully witness through traditional journalism or filmmaking. "Dreams of Violets" follows five strangers hiding from a violent soldier during a protest crackdown, while a child in a wheelchair witnesses their plight and decides to intervene. It is set in Tehran and was inspired by real events from 47 years of civilian resistance. AI's role in filmmaking first became a point of tension during the 2023 writers' and actors' strikes. Koosha's experiment provides a real-world example of how the technology could dramatically alter employment across cinema, from pre-production to the silver screen. His film's place on the Tribeca slate also raises a thorny question: If one person can make a festival-caliber film with AI, what happens to Hollywood jobs? "I didn't need anyone to do this," said Koosha, 40. "Not a single employee." Koosha said "Dreams of Violets" is a memorial to the victims of the Iranian government's January crackdown on protesters. Ask Koosha Koosha doesn't see AI replacing conventional filmmaking altogether. Though he said some stories are impossible to tell through traditional filmmaking, he added that "others are impossible to make with AI." He credits AI for giving him more than just independence. He said it also allowed him to work at "the speed of news." He produced "Dreams of Violets" in roughly two months and said he could've gotten it done in just three weeks if he didn't have a day job as the CEO of a tech-infrastructure startup. The 75-minute production cost only about $2,000, according to Koosha, which is significantly less than most microbudget independent films. He said the budget consisted largely of subscription fees for AI tools he normally pays for, plus some additional usage credits. Koosha said he wrote the script himself and used AI primarily to generate video elements that would otherwise have required a team of people, such as actors, costume designers, location scouts, and camera operators. He stressed that he was in control the entire time. "I am the pure 100% decider of the output," he said. "I'm only using AI models to render, almost print, the output that I desire." Koosha's background is mainly in music production and technology. He said he doesn't consider himself a filmmaker, though he played the lead role in "No One Knows About Persian Cats," a 2009 film about his life that won a Cannes award and forced him into exile. He said he also unsuccessfully attempted to direct a feature film in 2015 because it required more than he could afford or technically execute at the time. AI alone doesn't explain the film's success in getting accepted into a major festival, said Koosha. Ash Koosha Still, Koosha said AI isn't a substitute for filmmaking expertise, and he doesn't want "Dreams of Violets" to leave people with the impression that anyone can suddenly produce a movie by typing prompts into an AI app. "This is the false advertisement of the current AI model sellers," he said. "It's an absolute joke." Besides, he added, the AI tools he used were available to others at the same time, so technology alone doesn't explain the film's success in getting accepted into a major festival. "The models themselves did not do this film," he said. "You have to be a cinema-affiliated person." What "Dreams of Violets" shows, said Koosha, is that AI isn't eliminating filmmaking expertise so much as it is changing how that expertise is applied. He said the future belongs to people who already understand the industry's fundamentals and can translate those instincts into AI workflows. This means some film jobs could evolve rather than disappear. Workers who once handled physical production tasks may instead spend more time on research, world-building, image generation, and creative decision-making, he said, and experts in areas such as lighting and sound might apply their techniques through AI tools rather than on a set. Koosha said he voiced six characters, including a woman and a child, arguing that voice acting is one area where AI still can't match humans. Ash Koosha "They know so much about positioning of light and reflections and the camera and the cinematographer's needs," he said. "If they learn how to store lighting in image generation in AI, that by itself is a specialist job." To be sure, there is at least one area where AI comes up short, Koosha said: Voice acting. With "Dreams of Violets," Koosha said he voiced six characters, including a woman and a child. He said AI voice models lack realism and that he used a basic voice changer to adjust for gender and age. For his next film, Koosha is looking to hire five individuals who will use AI just as he did, so together they can accomplish more and in less time than he did with "Dreams of Violets." "Those are new jobs, and they require cinema experience," he said. "I can't just get anyone from any industry and bring them in." Read the original article on Business Insider

Ukrainian mobile air defense units historically operate heavy machine guns mounted on trucks. Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/NurPhoto Ukrainian mobile air defense groups are learning to operate new, high-tech interceptor drones. The crews have historically used .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns to battle Russian drones. Even with new weapons, they aren't quite ready to say goodbye to the aging guns. IRPIN, Ukraine — The soldiers arrived in darkness. Pulling up to a field in a van, they began quietly setting up their ground control station on the side of the road. Headlamps cut through the night as they prepared to launch. Before sending up the interceptor drone, they flew a small quadcopter out to scout the area and check for radar interference. Inside the van, the Ukrainians watched its progress on a computer screen. Suddenly, the feed vanished into static. Something had disrupted the scout drone's signal, likely electronic interference. They couldn't launch the interceptor, and the mission was grounded before it began. In moments like these, it's good to have a fallback. Ukrainian mobile air defense crews, such as this one in a Kyiv suburb, have long used .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns mounted on the beds of pickup trucks to battle the Russian one-way attack drones regularly striking their cities. But like other mobile defense units in Ukraine, they are learning to use high-tech interceptor drones alongside the Browning, a particularly versatile American-made heavy weapon designed at the end of World War I and fielded in the early 1930s. Ukrainian mobile air defense units historically operate heavy machine guns mounted on trucks. Maksym Kishka/Anadolu via Getty Images Business Insider recently linked up with this unit to observe soldiers as they trained on the interceptors. Losing the scout drone to suspected electronic interference underscores how delicate these operations are at a time when electronic warfare is becoming more prominent not just on the battlefield but also in civilian areas. Interceptor drones are playing an increasingly important role in Ukraine's air defense network, making mastery essential for mobile fire groups. Last year, Russia modified its drones to fly faster and at higher altitudes, well beyond machine-gun range, leaving their effectiveness in question. The interceptor drones, which can hunt targets at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters and at speeds of nearly 200 mph, help close that gap. The mobile unit near Kyiv is training with the P1-Sun and Bullet, two models made by Ukrainian companies Skyfall and General Cherry, respectively. Despite their advantages, the interceptors are not without their limitations. They are hamstrung by poor weather and electronic interference, as demonstrated by the training incident. Russia has also upgraded some of its drone tactics to make them more maneuverable to avoid interception. "There are different conditions where Browning machine guns are still really effective," explained Oleksiy, commander of the mobile air defense unit. He could only be identified by his first name for security reasons. Mobile air crews are learning to use interceptor drones like the Bullet. Jake Epstein/Business Insider The old machine guns are useful against Russian drones flying low enough to evade radar, at altitudes up to 100 meters. Video footage of an engagement earlier in the day showed one of the machine gunners in Oleksiy's unit firing at Shaheds during a massive Russian bombardment across Ukraine. "This is a deeply layered defense system that includes different types of weapons and means of engagement," Oleksiy said. A pilot with Oleksiy's unit who is training on the relatively new interceptor drones said previous experience with first-person-view (FPV) drones helped prepare her for the interceptors. The pilot, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said one challenge in learning to use interceptor drones is getting comfortable controlling an aircraft at much higher altitudes than she is used to. She said she is eager to put those skills to use in combat. "I want the war to end," she said. "My children live here, and I want to do something." Ukrainian mobile air defense units historically operate heavy machine guns mounted on trucks. Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/NurPhoto Ukrainian officials have described interceptor drones as a successful and growing part of the country's wider air-defense network. Oleksiy Vyskub, the country's first deputy defense minister, told Business Insider in a recent interview that while these weapons are used alongside aviation assets, such as helicopters, and other antiaircraft systems, the interceptor drones account for "the majority" of drone kills. The share of Russian Shahed drones shot down by low-cost interceptor drones has doubled since the start of the year, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's defense minister, told reporters last month. Interceptor drone deliveries have also increased. "This is a cheaper, faster, and more scalable response to Russia's mass attacks," Fedorov said. Ukrainians have said that there is a definite learning curve to mastering the interceptor drones, although mobile air defense units like Oleksiy's are more than ready to give it a go. "We always try to master every new technology we get," Oleksiy shared. "At first, it was regular FPV drones, then interceptor drones. We believe the more technologically advanced we are, the better our chances of victory." Read the original article on Business Insider

The author (far right) has enjoyed traveling to Knicks games this season with her husband, a lifelong fan, and their two sons. They also enjoy joining watch parties closer to home in California. Courtesy of Chris Rosenberg. Our California-based family has cheered the Knicks on across the country this season. From coast to coast, Knicks fans share an instant, unbreakable bond wherever they find each other. Watching this historic run alongside strangers who feel like family has been unforgettable. My husband grew up in New York in the 80s, watching the Knicks, and moving to California did nothing to change his support for the team. As a lifelong Knicks fan, the fact that their last Finals appearance was in 1999 and that their last Championship win was before he was even born had no bearing on his love for his team. He watched through all of it, mostly alone on the couch, the only basketball fan in his family. Over the years, my husband invested countless hours teaching our family the players, the history, and the game. Our kids, now 19 and 13, were mildly interested at times, but their love for the Knicks grew over time. I was born and raised in California, and so were our kids, but through and through, we're a Knicks family. It wasn't until this year that my husband — and his team — are finally getting the respect and recognition that he's been telling us they deserve all along. Taking the show on the road For years, whenever the Knicks came to Los Angeles, we packed up the family and went to cheer them on. But this season, we've taken our Knicks family on the road to support them across the country. We flew to Salt Lake City for a quick 24-hour trip just to watch them play the Utah Jazz. Walking up to the venue, Knicks fans were coming from every direction, strangers yelling "Go Knicks!" across the street. That's the thing about being a New York fan outside New York: the moment you spot another one, the connection is instant, and the cheering begins. The author and her husband made the trip from California to Atlanta to see the Knicks in game 3 of the playoffs. Courtesy of Chris Rosenberg. When the Knicks made the playoffs against Atlanta, my husband wanted to see them in a playoff game for the first time in his life. Tickets to see them at home at Madison Square Garden were too expensive, but we scored seats in the first section in Atlanta at a price we could stomach. As always, we were surrounded by Knicks fans because they come from far and wide; that's just what they do. It was an intense game, and the Knicks lost by one point in the final moments. Walking out of the arena, two young fans stopped my husband. They were devastated, asking whether the Knicks were done after two straight losses. He stood with them for over half an hour, one lifelong fan talking two younger ones through it, the way you do when you've carried this hope for decades and recognize it in someone else. That night was the turning point. After that, the Knicks went on a 13-game winning streak. As a Knicks family, we feel like we had a small part in that. Finding our Knicks community For Game 1 of the conference finals, I looked online to see if I could find a fun place to watch the action with other fans. I came across the Instagram account for the Left Coast Knicks, a legendary community of fans in Los Angeles. Before noon, people lined up at 33 Taps, a bar they had posted about online for their watch party. Many had laptops and playing cards in hand, committed to spending the whole day there just to be together for tip-off. We got there two hours early, and the bar was already full, not a seat in the house. Luckily, the organizers expanded into the restaurant next door. The author said she and her family went to 33 Taps in Los Angeles for a Knicks watch party after finding a post from the group Left Coast Knicks online. Courtesy of Chris Rosenberg. Our family of four scored the front table, and within minutes, my husband was connecting with everyone around us. They weren't strangers. They were the Knicks family we were going to spend the next two hours cheering, yelling, and rooting with. We high-fived on every basket and questioned every ref call together. Our kids were surrounded by Knicks fans, and they were cheering as loudly as everyone around them. We're still going strong We live halfway between LA and San Diego, so on Wednesday, we're headed to join the SD Knicks for Game 4, another community that found each other through nothing but their shared love of our team. The author said her husband, pictured with one of their sons at a watch party in LA, has an easy time connecting with Knicks fans, even outside of New York. Courtesy of Chris Rosenberg. Everyone says New York fans are different. When you're a New York fan, you already know that. But this Knicks run has shown the world that we are on a different level. Fans fill away stadiums because even when you leave New York, you never stop being a New Yorker. My husband spent his childhood watching games alone. The childhood our kids are growing up in looks completely different: family cheering, arenas filled with Knicks fans as we travel the country, and watch parties where strangers walk in and immediately become family. Whatever happens, every member of our family will carry this experience with them forever. Go New York, go New York, go! Read the original article on Business Insider

EY's Dan Diasio said companies should focus on AI for growth, not just cost-cutting and efficiency. Wasan Tita/Getty Images EY's global consulting AI leader said cost-cutting represents the smallest ROI for companies. Dan Diasio said companies should focus on AI for growth, not just efficiency. He said by focusing on cost-cutting, leaders are creating fear, which can block creativity. Wall Street tends to reward CEOs who slash jobs in the name of efficiency. However, those companies are leaning into an area with the "smallest level of return," Dan Diasio, EY's global consulting AI leader, told Business Insider. "There's a very clear limit to the amount of value you can create by just focusing on productivity and cost reduction," said Diasio, who also serves as EY's Americas consulting CTO. He said AI may be able to shrink the time spent on a task, but it doesn't necessarily eliminate the job around it. If cost reduction is the main strategy, those companies are effectively asking AI to pay for itself by reducing headcount. Diasio doesn't discount that AI can be a powerful tool for cost reduction and increased productivity, especially in areas like software engineering. At EY, Diasio said that AI has enabled engineers to move much faster and, in some cases, has begun merging multiple engineering roles into a single job. Diasio added that it's understandable that CFOs want a clear return on technology spend and AI investment. After all, AI doesn't come cheap: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google plan to spend as much as $725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, according to first-quarter earnings calls. That's roughly $100 billion more in total than originally projected for the year. Leaders focused only on efficiency may also find that they still need people to run, supervise, improve, and govern AI-enabled workflows. If too much is automated without human context, the output can become generic, brittle, or disconnected from what customers and employees actually need, Diasio said. However, productivity gains and cost savings are related, not identical. Software engineering clearly demonstrates that distinction, he said. AI tools speed up coding, drafting, analysis, research, testing, summarization, and workflow routing. However, the role still involves judgment, architecture, coordination, exception handling, client or user context, review, and overall ownership, Diasio said. Companies may see productivity gains before they see structural cost reduction, he said. Diasio added that leaders cannot ignore the full cost of AI-enabled workflows. These tools still require platforms, governance, human oversight, adoption, maintenance, and recovery when things go wrong, he said. A working AI tool is not automatically an AI tool that pays for itself, the leader said. He added that when companies approach AI with fear-based strategies, they risk stifling employees' creativity. In the age of AI, many employers have ramped up the pressure on workers with AI-related layoffs or AI leaderboards tied to evaluations. Diasio said that if workers believe AI is only a head-count weapon, they're less likely to help redesign the work. Diasio said AI's bigger opportunity lies in driving growth by creating new business possibilities. Diasio said that potential "has no limit," and the harder question to ask isn't whether AI can perform a task, but whether the organization can redesign workflows around that capability, he said. "The real promise is about unlocking new things, and that can be new businesses, that can be new markets, that can be new business models for companies," Diasio said. When leaders focus on growth and reimagining workflows, AI isn't something to fear, but an exciting prospect, Diasio said. The leader added that companies have an opportunity to "reimagine an entirely new way of working." For example, he said if AI gives people time back, the leadership question is where that time gets redeployed. "Those are the companies that are positioning themselves to win," Diasio said. Read the original article on Business Insider

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world,…

Zach Yadegari, 19, has cofounded two apps and has launched a new productivity brand, Flow. Courtesy of Zach Yadegari Zach Yadegari, 19, cofounded Cal AI, an AI-powered nutrition and calorie-tracking app. MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI in December 2025. Yadegari is already working on his next business venture, a new brand called Flow. While most college kids spent December cramming for finals, 19-year-old Zach Yadegari was selling his multimillion-dollar nutrition app. MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI, an AI-powered calorie-tracking app that Yadegari cofounded while he was in high school, late last year. The app officially launched in May 2024, amassing 10 million users and $30 million in annual revenue. While there are many reasons to sell an app — money, partnerships, shifting consumer trends — Yadegari said honest conversations between the founders solidified their decision. "Ultimately, it came down to us discussing everyone's priorities and goals in life. That framework really helped us come to a consensus of what we all wanted," Yadegari told Business Insider. For Yadegari, that meant financial freedom and the ability to pursue new projects. "We want the legacy of Cal AI to live forever and continue to grow," Yadegari, who is based in Miami, said. "At the same time, my life's mission isn't building a calorie tracking app." Even before Cal AI, Yadegari had been making a name for himself in the tech space. He sold his first app, Totally Science, an unblocked website that lets students play games during school, for $100,000 when he was 16. In the months following the acquisition, Yadegari assembled a team to pursue a new business venture: Flow. Go with the Flow Flow is a brand that intends to host a suite of products geared toward productivity and improving people's health. The Flow Alarm Clock, released in March, helps people who hit snooze on their alarm clocks one too many times or spend their mornings doomscrolling. Customers must purchase a small, portable dock that can be placed anywhere in their home and download the Flow app. On the Flow app, customers can set alarms and select which apps they'd like to block. When the alarm goes off, customers have to physically get up and tap their phone on the dock to turn it off. Tapping the dock also unblocks the apps. Additionally, the Flow Alarm Clock can track users' sleep patterns and record sleep sounds. "I wanted to make something physical, but I didn't want it to take a year of research and development," Yadegari said. "It's also something that would solve my own problems. I sometimes wake up, and I scroll on my phone for 30 minutes." Physical products are a new territory for Yedgari, but it's one he's been eyeing for a while. It doesn't come without challenges, though. "The elephant in the room is that we have to ship physical products and manufacture them," Yadegari said. "We have to scale with the amount of supply that we carry, and that's tricky. Shipping delays can also slow us down." Still, having experience from previously running a successful company has given Yadegari the confidence to start from scratch and try something new. Especially when the health and wellness industry is booming. The Global Wellness Institute said the wellness economy reached $6.8 trillion in 2024 and is forecast to hit $9.8 trillion by 2029. "These are my favorite categories to work — health, productivity, and wellness — because they make a real impact on people's lives," he said. Read the original article on Business Insider

Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions. Because the AI model runs much faster, it can help researchers and practitioners better assess coastal flood risk for adaptation planning. Sea levels are rising, and with them, the risks posed by extreme coastal events, such as storm surges – temporary rises in sea level caused mainly by storms, which are among the primary drivers of coastal flooding. For the more than 10% of the global population living in low-lying coastal regions, the combination of gradual mean sea level rise and increasingly intense extreme events represents a growing threat. For coastal planners and policymakers, the key issue is not just the expected rise in mean sea level, but the changes in the likelihood and severity of extreme events. Infrastructure design, urban planning and disaster preparedness depend on estimates of extreme event scenarios. However, projecting extreme sea level events remains a major scientific challenge, as they are driven by complex, nonlinear interactions between tides, atmospheric forcings, ocean dynamics and local coastal features. This means that uncertainty in extreme projections remains highly unquantified. Small differences in model assumptions can lead to large differences in predicted outcomes, especially for extremes. This uncertainty means a lot for planners, civil protection and, ultimately, the protection of human lives and assets. The efficiency of AI models opens up new possibilities. Because AI models can generate predictions much faster than physics-based models, they enable the exploration of large ensembles of future scenarios, which would be prohibitively expensive using traditional models alone. This is particularly important for risk assessment, where understanding the probability of rare but catastrophic outcomes is essential. A combined AI and physics-based approach for a changing risk Traditional physics-based models, which use physical laws to represent how coastal waters move, can simulate these processes in detail, but they are computationally expensive, making it difficult to explore a wide range of future scenarios and uncertainties. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in climate science, as it offers new opportunities to overcome these challenges. However, its reliability remains uncertain in this context, particularly due to two key challenges: the limited representation of rare but high-impact extremes in training data, and the need to generalise findings – in a robust fashion – to future climate conditions that may differ substantially from those observed historically. AI and physics-based modelling are complementary tools: physics-based models remain essential for representing the underlying processes and for generating the high-quality data needed to train and validate AI models, and ultimately to build trust in their AI counterpart. By combining the physical realism of traditional models with the efficiency and flexibility of AI, researchers are developing a new generation of tools for coastal risk assessment. These tools will be critical for informing adaptation strategies, helping societies better prepare for a future where extreme sea level events might become more frequent and more severe. Our findings suggest that AI can be reliably used for projecting rare but high-impact extreme sea level events. In addition, AI models, by enabling rapid scenario generation and sensitivity testing, provide a new tool to better characterise these uncertainties. A new AI emulator for extreme storm surge prediction In our recent study published in Earth’s Future, we investigated whether AI-based models can accurately predict extreme sea level events, when trained to emulate the outputs of physics-based simulations and projections. In other words, our AI models aim to learn to reproduce the results of these more complex models, but much faster. Our results show that AI emulators can successfully learn the complex dynamics behind storm surge events and reproduce extremes with high accuracy, including under future scenarios, compared to available projections up to the mid-21st century. To demonstrate this, we developed a framework to improve the ability of AI models to represent extreme storm surge events and to test whether their predictions remain reliable under future scenarios. We focused on the New York City coastal area as a case study, because it is highly exposed to coastal flooding, presenting a dense population, critical infrastructure and major economic assets – and because it has experienced devastating storm surges in recent history, such as during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused many fatalities and over $60 billion in economic damage. Our AI emulator relies on openly available physics-based simulations from the Global Tide and Surge Model (GTSM), not only for training, but also for assessing its reliability under different climate conditions, including future scenarios. Current limitations and next steps The next step is to test the robustness of such AI tools further across a wider range of climate scenarios and integrate them into operational risk assessment frameworks and global climate data services providing hydro-climatic and coastal information to decision-makers, such as the Aqueduct Flood Risk Analyzer and the Copernicus Climate Data Store. More broadly, AI models have the potential to address several critical needs in coastal risk analysis, but important gaps remain. These include improving and rigorously quantifying their transferability across a wide range of future scenarios, better representing uncertainties associated with physics-based parameters embedded in the training data, and assessing how well these models generalise across different geographic locations. Clarifying the limits of their extrapolation capabilities will be essential for building confidence in their use for decision-making, particularly under conditions not seen before, due to climate change and non-stationarities (that is, changes in climate regimes and more intense extremes than what was observed before), and that are therefore outside the range covered by past observations or physics-based simulations used to train the AI models. The AXA science philanthropy is now part of the AXA Foundation for Human Progress, which brings together the commitments of AXA Group and Mutuelles d’Assurances in the fields of Science, Nature, Solidarity, and Culture. Before 2025, the global science philanthropy was held by the AXA Research Fund, which has supported over 750 projects around the world since its inception back in 2007. To learn more, visit Axa Foundation for Human Progress. A weekly e-mail in English featuring expertise from scholars and researchers. It provides an introduction to the diversity of research coming out of the continent and considers some of the key issues facing European countries. Get the newsletter! Andrea Ficchì received funding from AXA Research Fund, through the Ocean Decade Joint Call for Fellows on Coastal Livelihoods, for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship project conducted at Politecnico di Milano, endorsed by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission as UN Ocean Decade Action. Emiliano Longo is a member of the CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change). He has received funding from Politecnico di Milano.

Mary Grigsby. Courtesy of Mary Grigsby Mary Grigsby left NYC for Mexico and started The Fish Ranch, a fly fishing business, in Baja. Mary's move to Baja was inspired by her love for the Sea of Cortez and desire for a smaller community. She manages her business while raising her son, and she loves her new lifestyle. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mary Grigsby, a 43-year-old who moved from New York City to Baja, Mexico, and is the founder of The Fish Ranch. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I was raised in Oregon and took a non-traditional route that led me into policy work and, eventually, finance. I was working in Manhattan when the pandemic hit, and I decided to visit my dad and brother in Baja, Mexico, where they spend a significant amount of time enjoying the climate and culture. I fell in love with Agua Amarga, a little town on the Sea of Cortez, and decided to move there. After a year working my finance job remotely from Mexico, I resigned and opened a fly-fishing business, The Fish Ranch, with custom trips and a fly shop in town. It's been a wild ride. I traveled and chased waves in my early years I left Oregon after high school and traveled the world, surfing and sailing places like Hawaii and Tahiti. I did a six-month stint in Baja and ultimately landed in Southern California, where I studied landscape architecture. When the big earthquakes hit Haiti in 2010, I volunteered and found a calling in disaster relief and international relations. I began studying Arabic at a community college in California, then transferred to Columbia University, where I completed the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies program. I traveled for school and spent summers studying and working on grants in numerous countries. Finance was never on my radar That changed when I had a random conversation in passing with a man about my studies. He offered me a job on the spot. I was burned out on policy work and was between gigs, so I took a chance and entered the business world. I worked as an asset management analyst on several different finance teams. I ended up loving the work and found that business was a powerful mechanism for effecting positive change and outcomes in our society. I eventually landed an amazing job at a major endowment in lower Manhattan, where we worked on responsible, sustainable investments. I started fly fishing in NYC My boyfriend at the time was really into fly fishing, and we would fish the waters around the city. It gave me a reason to be on the water, and we had fun chasing striped bass and other fish in the area. I fell in love with the fly fishing community. It was such an eclectic mix of people from all walks of life who shared a common love for the sport. We would attend gatherings and dinners where you'd find local fish bums at the same table as extremely wealthy people, all sharing the same passion. Many of my connections from the fly fishing community at that time are clients in Baja today. As much as I loved NYC, I was missing the ocean and wanted a smaller community When I'd visit my dad and brother in Mexico, something about the Sea of Cortez side attracted me. I would always drive over to Agua Amarga. I started looking for a property there while still working in NYC. I had pitched my job on remote work before the pandemic, but it wasn't an option at the time. When COVID-19 hit, the company went fully remote. I grabbed my dog and my computer monitors and flew down to Cabo on an empty flight. I was a little nervous when I first moved I'm the only American woman in my area, but the community has been great. It's safe, and everyone is very nice. I had traveled enough that there wasn't any culture shock or issues moving from the city to a rural community. I also enjoy living in the same place as my fishing captains. These relationships are really special, and I'm lucky to be here. I can't say enough good things about the people in small-town Baja, and, of course, I'm near the water with great fishing. I didn't plan on turning this into a business I wasn't planning to run a business initially, but there was a disconnect between the fishing captains and the people who wanted to book trips. I started talking to local captains about building a website that would function as a booking engine for local operators. At that time, they didn't have social media, websites, or any way of planning a trip in advance. I also wanted an office space separate from home, and that has become the current Fish Ranch fly shop. I started booking trips and putting together hats, stickers, and clothing as a passion project. I love having a creative outlet, and designing apparel has been surprisingly fun. It's not always easy The biggest challenges didn't stem from being in a small town or in Mexico. I'm a single mom now, with a wonderful 3-year-old. Having the bandwidth to grow the business was difficult. There were plenty of times when I was exhausted and wanted to give up. Ultimately, I stuck it out and kept pushing to build something special while also raising my son. This is a rewarding business for me I love seeing how happy and excited people are when they get on the water. The fishery and ecosystems are exceptional, and it makes me happy to send people off to have a great experience each morning. I also love the community connections. We have guests who return each year because of the relationships they develop with the captains, support staff, and the community as a whole. It's a really special bond. I'm also lucky to have my son with me on many of the trips. I miss some parts of life in NYC, with its diverse and worldly nature, but I can always visit. I'm very happy in Mexico and don't plan to leave. Read the original article on Business Insider

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