From the moment two people meet, they're sizing each other up, looking for signs of qualities like honesty, intelligence, and altruism.

Whether it's a date or a job interview, the small stuff matters — from the firmness of your handshake to how often you check your phone.

We checked out the Quora thread "What are the really small things that tell a lot about a person's psychology and personality?" and the latest scientific research, and highlighted some of the most common behaviors people use to judge you.

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1. Your handshake.

Several Quora users admitted that they judge people based on their handshake.

"Strong handshakes usually reflect a strong and confident character, whereas weak handshakes usually indicate a lack of confidence and are almost always a characteristic of people who would look for an easy way to do things," writes Julian Parge.

Research backs up the idea that your handshake can reveal certain aspects of your personality. One study found that people with firm handshakes were more likely to be extroverted and emotionally expressive and less likely to be shy and neurotic.

2. Your punctuality.

Late for a very important date? The person who's waiting may be forming a negative impression of your personality.

"A proactive person will be there on time, because he is self-motivated, mentally organized, and values time whereas a procrastinator will be running here and there at the last hour," says Humaira Siddiqui.

According to science, those who are chronically late aren't necessarily inconsiderate people — but they're probably more laid-back, "Type B" individuals.

3. Your handwriting.

Whether you're writing a to-do list or a love note, your handwriting can say a lot about you.

Ramesh Nagaraj believes that "people who put a lot of pressure on pen and paper to write something are usually stubborn in attitude. They have a lot of confidence."

Meanwhile, professional graphologist Kathi McKnight says that large letters indicate that you're people-oriented, while small letters suggest you're introverted. Letters that slant to the right can mean you're friendly and sentimental, those that don't slant at all might mean you're pragmatic, and letters that slant to the left suggest you're introspective.

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The music annotation website once known as Rap Genius has expanded radically since three Yale alums launched it in 2009.

Today, the re-branded Genius.com hosts crowdsourced annotations of a wide variety of written materials, including song lyrics, news stories, Shakespeare plays, and even the internet itself. But the site's recent expansion into video and other media platforms has produced some of its most compelling content yet.

Far from its humble beginnings as a lyrics site, Genius now regularly attracts high-profile artists for guest annotations and new projects. The site's artist relations team, Rob Markman and Brian Hernandez, works to facilitate inventive multimedia features with some of the biggest names in music. That means a typical day of work might mean meeting with top artists like Lil Wayne and Christina Aguilera, hanging out at recording studios, and getting backstage access to concerts.

Business Insider shadowed Markman, Genius' head of artist relations and a veteran music journalist, as he and his team produced the first installment of their brand new "IRL" video series, featuring an epic interview with producer and rap mogul DJ Khaled.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Markman's incredible job at Genius:

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Markman joined the site in August 2015 from MTV News, where he was a senior hip-hop editor.

With an extensive list of industry contacts from a prominent career in music journalism, Markman now works with record labels and publicists to bring high-profile artists to Genius. His focus is to find innovative ways for artists to discuss their music and the stories behind it.

"What I try to do when I talk with labels and publicists and different reps about artists is to find the one really good idea," he said. "What's the really good conversation that we can have that will be impactful. I always look at it like a Rubik's Cube. With every artist there's that really good idea, and it's trying to unlock it and find it."

At the offices of Genius in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, nearly 60 employees keep the website and its many projects running.

There are so many diets out there, but which ones actually work?

Luckily, scientists have found that most reasonable diets can help you lose weight, compared to not following a diet at all. Overall, studies have shown that diets rich in plants and low in processed foods are the best for weight loss.

But many popular diets aren't based on sound scientific principles. Here's what the science says about 15 popular diets, so you can decide which one — if any — might be right for you.

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What you do: The South Beach diet is a three-phase program designed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston in 2003. In the first phase, you cut out all carbs, fruits, and alcohol. In phases two and three, you gradually add some of those foods back in (as far as carbs go, you're only supposed to eat whole-grain ones). It's important to note that this is a commercial diet, so you may have to buy the official plan and materials.

What the science says: The diet focuses on whole foods, which is good since studies have shown this is the best approach for weight loss. Cutting out any of the food groups could leave you lacking nutrients, though. Some people on the diet have reported ketoacidosis, a condition with symptoms including bad breath, dry mouth, tiredness, dizziness, insomnia, nausea, and constipation. Studies have found South Beach diets (or those very similar to the name-brand version) could help people lose weight in the short-term, but researchers haven't followed people long-term to see if it helps them keep the weight off. The problem here is that while the second two phases of the diet are somewhat reasonable, the first phase is very restrictive, so some people might have trouble sticking to it.

What you do: On the new Weight Watchers (the one Oprah has advertised lets you eat bread), their SmartPoints program assigns foods points based on their nutritional values. You get a set number of points per day depending on your height, weight, activity level, and how many pounds you want to lose. The plan can cost between about $20 and $70 a month, depending on whether you pay for add-ons like coaching or meetings.

What the science says: Research has overwhelmingly positive conclusions about Weight Watchers' sensible rules, and the new program is even more in line with what nutritionists recommend. Participants in a clinical trial on the plan for a year lost nearly 7 pounds. And other studies have found Weight Watchers members also tend to lower their heart disease risk and blood pressure. An interesting analysis found that participants on Weight Watchers for a year typically paid $70 per pound lost, but gained $54,130 in quality of life improvement.

What you do: There are many different kinds of vegetarians, but generally, you don't eat meat or fish.

What the science says: In observational studies, vegetarians tend to weigh less than their carnivorous counterparts. Cutting meat from your diet could reduce your environmental impact as well, research has found. You have to make sure you get enough nutrients (especially protein) from other sources like nuts, grains, and dairy, though. But the benefits could be considerable: Studies have found that vegetarianism is linked with lower chances of heart disease and cancers, and higher chances of living longer.

I'm sitting in a San Francisco, counter-service restaurant waiting for my chopped salad, when a group of tall, white men wearing button-downs and fleece vests crowds around the cash register.

My boyfriend, who works in venture capital, spots them and says they're VCs.

"Do you know them?"

"No," he says. "The fleece vests. It's a giveaway."

It's true. The fleece vest, often in black and from outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia, has become the most quintessentially-VC item in an investor's wardrobe. 

No one seems to know how the fashion faux pas turned into a staple, and yet, the fleece vest is inescapable in Silicon Valley.

For example, Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock (whose investment portfolio includes Airbnb, Facebook, Flickr, and Zynga), rocked a Patagonia Men's Better Sweater Fleece Vest in Harvest Moon Blue. It retails for $99 on the website.

Marc Benioff, who has led Salesforce to fund some of the largest private cloud software companies in the world, wore a Salesforce-branded black vest on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this year.

Angel investor Joanne Wilson, the "Gotham Gal," invests across all industries, from food, to gyms, to real estate. She elevated the black fleece stereotype with this high-fashion, mixed-materials vest.

Business Insider spoke with several venture capitalists for this story and could not track down what brought on the vest's popularity. But we have some theories.

A practical reason why the vest might be so popular is, it gets chilly year-round in the Bay Area.

This year, San Franciscans (reluctantly) enjoyed one of the mildest summers on record. The city saw only one 70-degree day in August, meteorologists tell The San Francisco Chronicle. 

As investors make trips up and down the Bay, meeting with entrepreneurs, sitting in on board meetings, and negotiating deals in eternal-spring weather, it helps to zip up.

"This is the Bay Area so layering is useful," Kim Milosevich, a marketing partner at Andreeseen Horowitz, tells Business Insider.

Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most well-known firms in Silicon Valley, orders Patagonia vests embroidered with the company's name for events. They typically order enough supplies for guests and employees.

"Our swag is mainly created as a gift for guests of our events, so we want it to be high quality and something they'd like [or] find useful," Milosevich says.

Patagonia has another explanation. They just make darn good vests.

"I think one reason for the popularity is: Patagonia represents quality without being pretentious," Corey Simpson, a communications coordinator at Patagonia, says.

A casual, slightly pilled fleece vest may help Silicon Valley's many millionaires and billionaires feel (or at least look) grounded.

Patagonia would not disclose its corporate sales customers. But with a retail location in Palo Alto, Simpson says Patagonia fields a lot of questions about the trend — especially after its best-selling vest made a cameo in HBO's "Silicon Valley."

Donald "Jared' Dunn, played by actor Zach Woods, is the lovable and eccentric head of business development at Pied Piper. Whether he's living it up at a launch party for the fictional capital firm Bachmanity or polling TechCrunch Disrupt attendees on how to pivot the company, he dons a soft, fleece vest in Supply Green from Patagonia.

The show's production designer, Richard Royon, told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2014 that before the show aired, his team spent months surveying Silicon Valley for aesthetic inspiration. They racked up hours at Google, Facebook, Zynga, Apple, and Dell.

"Patagonia was clearly very important," Toyon said. "You walk around University Avenue and look at all the people wearing Patagonia during the day. It's kind of crazy."

The vest trend even spans from Silicon Valley to New York City's Silicon Alley.

Henry McNamara, a general partner at New York-based Greak Oaks Venture Capital, tells Business Insider he also owns a fleece vest. He's not sure why he sees so many in the wild.

"I guess I've never really thought about it," McNamara says. "I just really like vests."

Disclosure: The author is in a relationship with an employee of Andreessen Horowitz.

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The parent company of the infamous dating web site Ashley Madison, which made its name as a place for married people to find partners for affairs, is trying to recover from a terrible year.

Now rebranded as ruby Corp. (the "ruby" is intentionally lower case), the company formerly known as Avid Life Media is currently under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. It was the subject of a "highly critical" review by Australian government investigators in August. And it's still enduring multiple legal battles since the massive breach of its database in July 2015 exposed the identities of 32 million users.

But its new leadership team — on the job for just four months — thinks it can turn all of that negativity around, regain the trust of old users while bringing more into the fold, and revamp the much-criticized brand.

"We felt the Ashley brand was very valuable and wasn’t something to throw away," Rob Segal, ruby's new CEO, told Business Insider in a telephone interview along with company president James Millership.

As ruby focuses on security improvements, it can boast that roughly 17 million people have signed up for the site after it was hacked, and its own employee ranks have grown 40%. The executive duo that specializes in brand turnarounds and marketing seems to be a big reason why.

Meet the turnaround team

It took nearly a year for the company to find a new CEO. Its previous executive, Noel Biderman, resigned soon after the data breach, which exposed customer data and many of his own embarrassing emails, including some that suggested he was having affairs himself, according to Buzzfeed News. 

Around March 2016, a corporate headhunter reached out to Rob Segal, a marketer by trade. Others from Avid's board approached him and asked him if he'd take over as CEO. The same happened for Millership, an expert with turnaround experience in manufacturing, gaming, and technology.

It wasn't an easy sell.

"We saw what happened with Avid," Segal said, explaining that they both undertook four months of due diligence on the company, digging into financials, meeting with the team, and discussing the issues with their own lawyers. The key question, Segal said, was whether Ashley Madison could shed its persona as untrustworthy.

"I think we let the data lead that decision," said Segal, who previously ran a communications firm that handled brands such as Sony, Virgin, and Party Poker. "It really is a global business operating in 46 countries with cash flow and a really strong team. ... We grew comfortable with the fact that there could be a resolution."

Since July, Ashley Madison has undergone a number of changes to win users back. One of the most notable is its pivot away from infidelity. Instead of the tagline "Life's short. Have an affair," it's website says simply: "Find your moment." 

"In the past it was very male-targeted," Segal said, adding that the rebrand was meant to make it more inclusive and "open-minded." Instead of an adultery hotspot, the website says it is a safe space for same-sex relationships and polyamorous couples to look for new partners. Segal added that singles might be looking for others who are into unconventional sex practices, or BDSM.

"Having a breach like what occurred last summer is obviously something that keeps any CEO or anyone in leadership up at night," Millership said. "But what we're really excited for is to provide incredible experiences for our users."

'This is an ongoing effort to win back the trust'

All the rebranding in the world won't make any difference if users can't trust that their data won't be stolen once again — a fact both Segal and Millership are keenly aware of. So one of the first things they did was hire Deloitte to beef up their cybersecurity posture.

"This is an ongoing effort to win back the trust of our customers," Millership said. The company also implemented something called Level 1 PCI Compliance for credit card processing, which means it has to undergo annual internal audits onsite and have its network scanned by an outside vendor.

It also did away with the fake female profiles that were revealed in use on the site — bots that were chatting up men and goading them into purchasing more credits for messages. "We can say with certainty" they are gone, Millership said. 

An audit by Ernst & Young confirmed that was the case. Now, Millership says, there are only real women using the site, at a ratio of about about one woman to every five men. On average, 1.6 million unique active members visit the site every month, the company said.

Can they do it?

It's far too early to tell whether Ashley Madison's rebrand will be successful, but its top leaders are confident, especially after the launch of a major ad campaign in July. Millership claims the ads — which ran only in English speaking markets, or more than two-thirds of its user base — brought in 20% greater sign ups among women.

"It struck a chord," Millership said.

The ads were not well-received by everyone. Its spot dubbed "Hotel," which showed a momentary glance between a man and an unfulfilled wife in a hotel lobby, seemed to reinforce the image of an adultery site that it had been trying to overcome. Though another, featuring a single man on a subway, could have worked just as well for any other dating site.

Still, Ashley Madison has a long way to go.

The company is due back in court next month for a status conference in a major class action lawsuit it's been embroiled in for more than a year. The FTC is still investigating its business practices, though the agency has declined further comment to journalists. (The FTC did not respond to our request.)

Its reputational damage is even apparent on the front page of Google search, which doesn't even surface Ashley Madison's home page on the first results page. Instead, the top organic results are a Wikipedia page about the data breach and various news stories detailing the hack that ruined many lives, and may have contributed to at least one suicide. (The company purchases Google Adwords to get a sponsored link at the top of the first results page.)

But perhaps, the leadership team of Segal and Millership — benefitting from not having been at the company during its rocky past — can pull it off, given what they've accomplished so far. They even hinted to Business Insider there were plans to rebrand ruby's other properties of Cougar Life and Established Men.

"Our goal is to create ruby as a digital technology in the middle of the online dating space for open-minded relationships," Segal said. 

Whether people will have an open mind about a company with such a troubled past? That's a moment that Ashley Madison still needs to find.

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Twenty-seven million people play "League of Legends" every day. At peak hours, more than 7 million people are playing concurrently. For professional players, their salaries and endorsement deals reach into the seven figures.

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The best way to build wealth is to prioritize assets over income. But ensuring that your assets outweigh your liabilities can be impacted greatly by the city you call home.

This week, online personal finance consultant Bankrate.com released a report ranking America's best and worst metro areas for building wealth.

To create the list, Bankrate.com ranked the 21 largest metro areas in five categories that contribute directly to an individual's ability to build their wealth:

• Savable income: average income after taxes and expenditures
  
• Human capital: unemployment rate, educational opportunities, and productivity
• Debt burden: non-mortgage debt per capita and average credit score
• Homeownership: average annual change in home prices, foreclosure actions, and homeownership rate
• Access to financial services: Percentage of workers with access to retirement plans

San Francisco came out on top as the best place to build wealth, followed by Minneapolis and Washington, DC.

“In some metro areas, like San Francisco, homeownership can be prohibitively expensive, but higher-than-average salaries can help residents stash more money away in tax-advantaged retirement accounts," wrote Claes Bell, a Bankrate.com analyst and the author of the study. "On the other hand, Minneapolis-area residents don't earn as much, but the area's affordable housing and recovering real estate market provide opportunities to build wealth over the long term through home equity."

Read on to see how the 21 largest US cities stack up for building wealth, as well as the average savable income, homeownership rate, and non-mortgage debt per capita for each city. 

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21. Riverside-San Bernardino, California

Savable income: $9,790

Homeownership rate: 62.6%

Debt burden: $27,682

20. Miami

Savable income: -$3,613*

Homeownership rate: 58%

Debt burden: $25,645

*Analysis showed a negative average savable income for the Miami metro area. This may be attributable to the high population of retirees in the area who are spending more of their savings than they're earning.

19. Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida

Savable income: $3,437

Homeownership rate: 62.7%

Debt burden: $27,015

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As a part-time photographer and full-time foodie, I always struggle in deciding which camera to take on vacation: my high-end but clunky Canon 5D or the iPhone that slips into my pocket.

That's why the iPhone 7 Plus caught my attention. The camera's marquee feature, called Portrait Mode, blurs the background of photos and creates a sense of depth through software.

On a weekend getaway to Treebones Resort in Big Sur, California, I had the chance to test out the beta version of the iPhone 7 Plus' depth effect. It blew me away. Here's why:

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The iPhone 7 Plus takes my favorite part of shooting with a professional-grade camera — depth-of-field effect — and squeezes it into a device that fits in the palm of my hand.

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Portrait Mode uses the phone's two built-in camera lenses, as well as some machine learning, to work out what's in the foreground and what's in the background. That allows it to apply a blur outside the subject.

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Until now, you could achieve this effect, also called "bokeh," by taking the image into Photoshop (which is a pain) or shooting with an expensive piece of glass on a camera that lets you swap lenses. A 50-millimeter lens from Canon costs $349 on Amazon.

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When some people walk past you, it can feel as though you're invisible to them. Turns out, you may be right.

In a small recent study, researchers from New York University found that those who considered themselves in higher classes looked at people who walked past them less than those who said they were in a lower class did. The results were published in the journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

According to Pia Dietze, a social psychology doctoral student at NYU and a lead author of the study, previous research has shown that people from different social classes vary in how they tend to behave towards other people. So, she wanted to shed some light on where such behaviors could have originated.

First, the team had to work out how to calculate whether people were paying attention to others or not.

The research was divided into three separate studies. For the first, Dietze and NYU psychology lab director Professor Eric Knowles asked 61 volunteers to walk along the street for one block while wearing Google Glass to record everything they looked at. These people were also asked to identify themselves as from a particular social class: either poor, working class, middle class, upper middle class, or upper class.

An independent group watched the recordings and made note of the various people and things each Glass wearer looked at and for how long. The results showed that class identification, or what class each person said they belonged to, had an impact on how long they looked at the people who walked past them.

"On average, our studies show that each 1-step increase in social class is accompanied by a gradual decline in attention towards humans," Dietze told Business Insider. "However, we usually see the most extreme differences in attention towards humans between people from the working class and the middle class, such that working class participants pay significantly more attention to humans than their middle-class counterparts."

During Study 2, participants viewed street scenes while the team tracked their eye movements. Again, higher class was associated with reduced attention to people in the images.

For the third and final study, the results suggested that this difference could stem from the way the brain works, rather than being a deliberate decision. Close to 400 participants took part in an online test where they had to look at alternating pairs of images, each containing a different face and five objects.

Whereas higher class participants took longer to notice when the face was different in the alternate image compared to lower classes, the amount of time it took to detect the change of objects did not differ between them. 

The team reached the conclusion that faces seem to be more effective in grabbing the attention of individuals who come from relatively lower class backgrounds.

Dietze said that there is some evidence that people who consider themselves in higher classes have certain personality traits that could mean they are less interested in the general public. Also, several studies have shown that someone's cultural background can influence how their attention is allocated.

"Researchers have uncovered that higher class is associated with increases in narcissism, decreases in dispositional compassion, higher feelings of psychological entitlement," she said.

For example, a study from the University of California, Berkeley explored how narcissism is not evenly distributed across the social class spectrum, and found that upper-class individuals seemed to have more psychological entitlement and narcissistic personality tendencies. Another study from UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and the University of Toronto suggested that people in a lower social class were more empathetically accurate in judging other people's emotions.

It's not all in your head — or is it?

There are several possible reasons for this. In the California and Toronto study, the authors conclude that because of a lack of resources, lower-class individuals tend to focus on the "external, social context to understand events in their lives" and as a result, "they orient to other people to navigate their social environments."

At the core of the NYU team's theory is something called "motivational relevance," which basically means that different classes of people assign differing levels of motivational value on other human beings.

"Whereas lower-class individuals tend to regard other people as relevant to their current goals and well-being, higher-class perceivers tend to appraise others as lacking in motivational relevance," Dietze said. "We argue that class cultures shape relevance appraisals almost immediately after the perceiver encounters another person.

"According to our theory, these relevance appraisals shape difference in attention towards other people."

In other words, people from privileged backgrounds are less likely to be socially dependent on others and are therefore less likely to see people as potentially rewarding, threatening, or worth paying attention to.

In future research, Dietze said she would like to use virtual reality technology to get more accurate results from participants' eye movements to better understand how different people react to the world around them.

"We will measure if social class background can shape attention, stress, and emotional responses to varying street scenes," she said. "The more we know about the effect of social class differences, the better we can address widespread societal issues — this research is just one piece of the puzzle."

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Whatever you do, don't tuck your freshly-purchased tomatoes in the fridge.

It might seem like a good way to store them, but in reality, the cold temperatures can wreak havoc on the flavor and texture of the produce.

While cold air can stop tomatoes from ripening — a good thing if you want to keep them around for longer — refrigeration also breaks down cell membranes inside the fruit, diminishing its flavor and texture.

But why? Turns out, these flavor changes happen on a genetic level, according to a study published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Researchers from the University of Florida looked at two tomato varieties: heirloom and a more modern vision. They then exposed the tomatoes to 41-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. After one, three, or seven days, the researchers brought the tomatoes back up to a standard room temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

While the sugar and acid makeup of the tomatoes didn't change, their volatiles — the chemicals that give produce their flavors — dipped sharply.

The researchers chalked this up to something called DNA methylation, or the process that essentially switches a gene off.

What you can do about it

But, as The New York Times noted, this might not be so easy a fix as just eating tomatoes in January as soon as you haul them back from the store. By the time you get them, they may have already hit 41 degrees or colder while getting transported from warmer climates. 

Instead, getting your tomatoes another way, through preserves, sun-dried tomatoes or tomato sauce, might give you a better chance to capture all that great tomato-y flavor you might be missing. 

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For entrepreneurial power couple Michael and Caroline Ventura, "working from home" means much more than posting up all day on the couch with a laptop. The husband-and-wife team runs multiple businesses and creative ventures from a 19th-century, three-story building in the West Village. The 18,000-square-foot building used to be three townhomes, but it's now a unified structure rented out entirely by the Venturas.

Calliope (a home goods store that also offers art classes), And&And (a 2,500-square-foot event space), and Sub Rosa (Michael's creative design and marketing studio) surround their apartment. Both Michael and Caroline float seamlessly through the building, devoting a majority of their time to their main lines of business: Sub Rosa for Michael, and jewelry line BRVTVS for Caroline.

But with so many interests to juggle, every other moment between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. is guaranteed to be packed.

While their commute might be exceptionally short, both Michael and Caroline have had to develop a healthy work-life balance. At this point, they know better than almost anyone how being a business partner with your significant other is completely different from working with other employees.

Business Insider recently got the chance to visit their unique home and chat with them about what they've learned in eight years of collaboration.

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Technically, Michael and Caroline have been working together since the day they met. "We've always had a 'work together' mentality because we met on a job," Caroline said. Michael added: "I was creative-directing a shoot, and we hired Caroline's production company to produce some of the content."

Their two-story apartment shares the second and third floors of the building with Sub Rosa, the 50-person design and creative firm that Michael founded and is CEO of.

To help create more of a distance between work and home, the couple made sure that a separate, private staircase was built to enter their apartment.

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Shortly after the birth of their first child over a decade ago, Chip and Joanna Gaines, now the stars of HGTV's hit home-renovation show "Fixer Upper," experienced a financial wake-up call when Chip was thrown in the county jail for about $2,500 in unpaid tickets.

The tickets were issued after neighbors complained that the couple's dogs were illegally roaming the street in front of their house, they write in their new book "The Magnolia Story." To pay Chip's $800 bail, Joanna had to empty the cash register and safe in her small retail shop. It was then that she realized they "were right on the edge of a real financial struggle." She promised to never let it happen again.

"I have a naturally conservative nature, and Chip and I were supposed to balance each other out, not concede to each other's strengths and weaknesses," Joanna wrote of the ordeal. "My strength is saving and being tight with the money, and I had not exercised that strength recently."

Now, Joanna fully recognizes the importance of an emergency fund — something she credits her parents for teaching her to value.

"I think for me, the best lesson is always having a nest egg on the side," she told Business Insider in a recent interview.

Chip disagrees, however.

"He laughs because I had a nest egg going into our marriage," Joanna said. "And then that nest egg ended up [going] into an investment, and then within six months I was like, 'Well, it would've been nice to have that nest egg right about now.'"

Still, Joanna said she's "always liked the idea of putting money aside." And she advises her clients to do the same when it comes to renovating a home.

"If you have a $20,000 budget, plan on spending $15,000 — $5,000 will be money that just magically appears that you're going to need," Joanna said. "Something’s going to happen, something’s going to go wrong. So I'm always thinking 'Hey if I have this much, I'm always going to want this over here, just in case.' But not Chip."

Chip says his parents taught him the exact opposite.

"They taught me to take that nest egg and throw that thing out the window, and go for it. You only live once — there will be plenty of time to sleep when you're dead," Chip told Business Insider. He then asked Joanna, "Do we have a nest egg?"

"I learned early on that if you have a nest egg, you can’t tell him about it, because it will be gone," Joanna said.

Watch Chip and Joanna discuss their different views on saving money in the video below:

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It's well-known that Donald Trump is a very wealthy man, but his actual net worth has always been a bit of a question mark.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has boasted about his wealth, at times claiming to be worth as much as $10 billion. But as recent reports have shown, it's likely that his net worth is considerably less — according to a recent Forbes investigation, for example, Trump's wealth has declined in recent months as the value of his retail and office properties has gone down, and his net worth could now be closer to $3.7 billion.

One thing is for certain, though: regardless of how many billions Trump has, he knows how to spread his fortune around. 

Aside from running some of the best-known apartment buildings in the country, he also owns a personal portfolio of homes from Manhattan to Palm Beach, all of which are drenched in gold. 

Keep scrolling to check out Trump's collection of homes, cars, aircrafts, and more.  

April Walloga and Meredith Galante contributed reporting to an earlier version of this post.

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Donald Trump calls Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue home the majority of the time. Trump Tower is a 68-story skyscraper, and Trump sleeps in a triplex penthouse.

Source: The Trump Organization

Trump's penthouse has a gold- and diamond-covered door, an indoor fountain, a painted ceiling, and an ornate chandelier. It's absolutely covered in marble.

When Trump gets tired of his New York abode, he hops on his $100 million Boeing 757 and jets to one of his other mansions.

A Los Angeles mansion that was listed earlier this year for an eye-popping $150 million just sold in a complex deal to Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Gores will be trading several properties in the area in exchange for this new home, which was built on speculation on the same lot where Barbara Streisand's "Mon Rêve" estate once stood. The deal is estimated to be worth $100 million. 

Located in the ritzy Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, the new structure covers a whopping 38,000 square feet and has 10 bedrooms and 20 full baths. Additional amenities include private hiking trails and a movie theater complex with its own guest valet entrance. 

It was developed by Gala Asher of Dream Projects LA, who purchased the land from tech entrepreneur David Bohnett for $13.25 million in 2014. Streisand's original home was demolished shortly after she sold it to former music exec Les Bider in 2000. Bider then sold the empty lot to Bohnett. 

Ginger Glass of Coldwell Banker Previews International had the listing.

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The massive home can be found on Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills, one of Los Angeles' most exclusive neighborhoods. Walt Disney, Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, and Elvis Presley all called Carolwood home at one point, according to a press release from listing agent Ginger Glass.

The home is set behind a gate at the end of a private road.

Heavy vegetation adds to the secluded feel.

World-famous food guy Anthony Bourdain has a new book out called "Appetites," and he recently appeared on the Marc Maron "WTF" podcast to talk about it.

During his conversation with Maron, Bourdain talks about how a lot of people just don't know how to cook, and he offers some tips.

At one point he describes how people get cooking steak all wrong.

"No one knows how to grill a backyard steak in this country," Bourdain says.

"What?" Maron asks.

Bourdain explains.

"Everybody grills backyard steaks," Bourdain says, "if they've got a backyard and can afford steak ...

"They cook it too high, but the biggest mistake — what everybody does — is they're poking it all the time, they're jabbing it and poking it, checking to see if it's done inside.

"And then the worst is they haul it off the grill — "

"And they cut into it right away?" Maron says.

"Right away," Bourdain says.

Bourdain says that after cooking a piece of meat, letting it sit on the board for 10 to 15 minutes "makes all the difference in the world — if you just leave it alone.

"Let the thing sit," he says. "Because what's going on inside that unmolested steak is all sorts of magical recirculation of its juices, and it comes out perfect.

"If you cut into it right away, it's sort of got that bull's-eye pattern, you know — it's fiery red in the center. Everything's wrong.

"It's just that simple thing. Rest it."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Bourdain philosophizes about cooking generally: "Wouldn't society be better if, given the opportunity and a few ingredients, everybody could competently cook for themselves?"

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