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The Story Behind The Hackathon Project That Helped Inspire The Creation Of...
It all started like many great things do–on a warm night over a few beers.It was the winter of 2012 and then-Facebook user interface engineer Lex Arquette was winding down his four-year tenure at the...
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These 10 CEOs’ Top To-Do List Hacks
You’ve never quite figured out the best way to organize your to-do list–join the club. Perhaps you’ve got dozens of pages of to-dos stored away in the Notes app on your phone, and dozens more spread...
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Inside India’s Plans To Leapfrog The Western Model Of Car Ownership
At rush hour, the gridlock on a highway in Delhi, India, looks a lot like Los Angeles. As more Indians are able to afford cars–and as the country’s population soon becomes the largest in the...
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Here’s Exactly How To Procrastinate On Really Hard Projects
You finally hit “send” on that report you spent all week writing, and you feel great. It was a long slog, but now you can finally pour yourself a well-deserved glass of wine and kick back–or just take...
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Exclusive: Interbrand Announces Its Breakthrough Brands Of 2017
The rules of business seem to be changing constantly, and no one model of success is dominant, so it’s particularly fascinating when a company breaks through the noise. But what are those qualities...
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How These Recent Grads Landed Jobs At YouTube, Giphy, And SoundCloud
The class of 2017 is joining the workforce with some tough challenges but, according to researchers, with plenty of optimism. But no matter how lofty the speeches on this year’s commencement circuit...
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Why These Gig-Economy Startups Hire Salaried Employees Instead Of Contractors
On-demand startups have weathered criticisms for (among other things) classifying workers as independent contractors and avoiding the higher costs associated with providing benefits and covering...
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How To Trick The Robots And Get Your Resume In Front Of Recruiters
Confession time: I hate applicant tracking systems (ATS) with a burning passion. Why? Because in the name of making things easier for companies by “pre-filtering out” unqualified candidates, the...
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This Refugee Camp In The Jordanian Desert Now Has Its Own Solar Farm
When the temperature soared to 100 degrees in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan last week, refugees living there could keep fans running inside their shelters. The camp, which had only sporadic access...
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How I’ve Learned To Stop Arrogance From Silently Hurting My Career
Sometimes it starts with an eye roll. Maybe a proposal of yours gets rejected and one you think sounds pretty dumb gets approved in its place. Ugh. You try keeping your feelings to yourself, but your...
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The “SNL” Finale Proves We’ve Learned Nothing From The...
Saturday Night Live concluded its season the same way cast and crew started it: wildly overconfident about the defeat of Donald Trump.During a recent bye week, NBC aired a rerun from early in the...
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Amber Tamblyn’s Directorial Debut Marks Her Vision For Complex Women
There’s a crazy scene in the new movie Paint It Black, based on the novel by Janet Fitch, where Josie (Alia Shawkat) attends her boyfriend’s funeral. Upon arrival, she’s grabbed by her boyfriend’s...
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On Amazon Echo And Google Home, Notifications Could Be Brilliant–Or Brutal
Amazon Echo and Google Home would like your attention now. Or at least they will in the near future.The two tech giants have both recently announced proactive notifications for their connected...
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The 5 Books On Bill Gates’s Summer Reading List–From Jimmy Carter...
As one of the world’s top philanthropists, perhaps it makes sense that Bill Gates is treating beach reading like an intellectual cause: Each year, he offers up his list of the most important beach...
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Riz Ahmed Is Starring In This UK Political Ad Because Blacks Don’t Vote
Riz Ahmed has had a busy couple of years, first gaining pop culture and critical attention in HBO’s acclaimed The Night Of, then in the hit Star Wars prequel, Rogue One. But in a new PSA campaign, the...
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Why It’s So Difficult To Investigate Trump’s Russia Ties
It’s going to be a long, hot summer–or as they say in Russian “жарко как в Аду” (translation: “it’s hot as hell”).For over a year now, we’ve been reading about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia: his praise...
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This Super-Efficient Renovation Is A Model For Lowering A House’s...
When workers finish their work retrofitting a 1920s-era house near Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the house will look essentially the same as it did before from the outside–but it will...
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Sweden Has Listed The Entire Country On Airbnb
In Sweden there’s a constitutional right they call allemansrätten. It’s a national concept of “freedom to roam” that allows anyone the right to access, walk, cycle, or camp on any land (the only...
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Diary Of An Ex-Facebook Intern
Facebook has had a huge impact on our lives: The company essentially owns a large part of the world’s social media user base with its products from Facebook itself, to Instagram, to WhatsApp playing an...
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IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal
This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company.Until recently, IBM was one of the first and biggest proponents of remote work. But no longer....
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