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Key Takeaways Vermont’s Mountain School charges students about $40,000 for a semester of academics, farm work and communal living. Students clean, cook, tend animals, harvest crops and maintain shared spaces across the school’s 418-acre campus. Some students view the school as a differentiator in the increasingly competitive college admissions process, alongside rigorous classes such as AP Calculus. At Vermont’s Mountain School, students pay $40,000 to trade conventional classrooms for farm work and communal chores for a semester. According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, students are eager to explore a life with less technology — and get into…

A 33-year-old filmmaker survived a 100-foot cliff fall on Tom, Dick, and Harry Mountain in Oregon thanks to a doctor on the scene and a National Guard chopper rescue.Tom, Dick, and Harry Mountain is a roughly two-mile-long volcanic ridge southwest of Government Camp (Photo: Ahorica)Published September 16, 2026 05:07PMJust before 3 P.M. on September 15, a 33-year-old man fell 100 feet off a ledge on the second peak of Tom, Dick, and Harry Mountain—a jagged, multi-summit ridge above Government Camp in Oregon’s Mount Hood National Forest.The man tumbled while filming a movie, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO).…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways As companies grow, payroll is often one of the first processes to reveal how much more complex the business has become. Reviewing exceptions and ensuring accuracy consumes time that could be spent on value-added tasks. AI makes payroll more proactive. Instead of catching errors at the end of a pay cycle, continuous processing can flag overtime, pay-rate and compliance issues earlier — reducing last-minute corrections. The strongest payroll applications act as an intelligent second reviewer, identifying and explaining potential problems while leaving final decisions to human administrators. For most growing…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Running a business while traveling is about finding the right balance. You need systems, a reliable team and technology that keep things moving, but you also need the discipline to know when to unplug. 11 key strategies help me stay productive without turning every vacation into another week at the office. The real freedom isn’t being able to work from anywhere — it’s building a business that doesn’t need your attention everywhere. Running a business while traveling sounds great in theory, but I’ve learned that it only works when you…

Published September 16, 2026 03:27PMThe family of missing trail runner Kalie McCrystal is breaking their silence after her September 1 disappearance on the Matterhorn. In a statement sent to Outside, Wendy Cooper and Jody McCrystal, Kalie’s mother and sister, said they now believe she fell while descending the peak.“Despite Kalie’s exceptional skill and experience in technical mountain terrain, including her previous experience on the Matterhorn itself, everything we now know suggests she fell while descending,” the family wrote. “This is not the outcome any of us had hoped for, and it is very difficult to accept.” The family’s statement comes…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Systemization thinking, or systems thinking, is the habit of seeing things as systems instead of isolated events. A normal thinker looks at slow customer support, for example, and says, “Let’s reply faster.” A systems thinker asks why support is slow in the first place, then builds templates, routing rules and automations so that speed becomes automatic and doesn’t depend on anyone trying harder. Let me tell you a quick story. There was a new town in Norway back in the 1990s, built by a rich oligarch who decided to create…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI may reduce the need for large, role-specific teams, but it raises the premium on employees who can spot problems, make sound judgments and take work from idea to execution. The startups best positioned to adapt will hire for range, combining AI fluency, cross-functional curiosity, adaptability and enough empathy to preserve trust when automation cannot. In an AI-first workplace, founders should stop treating job descriptions as fixed boxes and start building teams around capabilities, accountability and continuous learning. AI is changing the way businesses operate, and 80% of CEOs are…

When Codie Sanchez looks back on her earliest social media content, she does what many of us do when examining our internet past: She cringes.  “Some of the first videos we made, I’m like, My God. There’s money floating around in the air behind me, it makes me want to die,” Sanchez says. “But like any new business owner, you get talked into things that aren’t you.”  Despite those questionable early choices, Sanchez has since become an internet force. She’s collected a combined 15 million social media followers and authored the best-selling book Main Street Millionaire, largely by promoting the…

Published September 16, 2026 09:35AMSeptember upland and deer archery hunters are no stranger to summer-like conditions, while those who hunt into mid-season can expect a broader mix of weather. At the other end of the hunting season, spring turkey and light goose hunters may face a combination of blizzard conditions, rain showers, and balmy temperatures as winter gives way in fits and starts. The best hunting apparel and footwear for these temperamental times of year should breathe well, layer easily, regulate body heat, and resist wind and water.For our fall 2026 update, we tested more than 40 pieces of hunting…

Even a veteran franchisee makes rookie mistakes. Dave Baumgartner opened his 100th Dunkin’ location this spring, capping off a goal he’d been chasing for 16 years. His surprising advice to anyone starting out? Don’t follow his example. Baumgartner signed his first Dunkin’ franchisee agreement in 2009 for four stores with an option for 17 more, jumping in fast despite having no restaurant experience. Looking back, he says that was too aggressive. “If I were going to give anyone advice, it would be to start with just one store,” he says. “You need that year or two to learn what you…