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Dating Poorly Dressed Men Led Me To My Dream Job
Nicole Russo confesses that landing her dream job as a personal stylist was “a complete accident.”Although she always loved aesthetics and design, Russo says that as a result of growing up in a very...
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Hey, The iPad Just Got PC-Style Drag And Drop–But Not From Apple
Someday–maybe as soon as its WWDC keynote on June 3–Apple will surely bring the familiar PC interface concept known as drag-and-drop to the iPad. But Ukraine-based productivity app developer Readdle...
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Giving My Employees Paid Leave For Activism Ignited A Firestorm. I’d Do...
This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company.Some people call me a “candy ass.” And I’m okay with that.That was just one of the very nasty...
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The Guy Who Helped Take Down Bill O’Reilly Is Now Targeting Sean Hannity
News depends on ratings. The more viewers, listeners, or readers a cable show attracts, the more advertisers will pay to reach that audience, and that axiom has often helped insulate top-rated news...
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The Tech Industry’s Missed Opportunity: Funding Black Women Founders
This is a tale of two tech startups.The first is a messaging app that allows a user to send a one-word greeting to a friend and nothing more. There is no messaging functionality, filtering features, or...
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Eating Beans Could Be A Magical Solution To Climate Change
There is a cause of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that nobody likes to talk about, and it is cow farts. In a single day, a lone cow can fill a 55-gallon bag with methane-laden gas–methane being a GHG...
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Three Times You’re Unintentionally Annoying Your Hiring Manager
I gave my email one last quick read, took a deep breath, and pressed “send” on the resume and cover letter I’d spent hours tailoring, tweaking, and polishing.I was fresh out of college and eager to...
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Brands, Take Note: Beautycon Has Cracked The “Pivotal Generation”
Every year, Beautycon’s New York event brings tens of thousands of thrilled makeup obsessives to see their beloved Youtube influencers up close and personal. Over the past four years, Beautycon has...
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Latitu° Creates Luggage At The Intersection of Affordable And Luxurious
It’s surprisingly hard to find beautiful, affordable luggage. When it comes to the practical, brands like AWAY are stepping in to fill the void by providing hardshell suitcases designed to last a...
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Electronic Music Pioneer Suzanne Ciani: Artists Need To Love Their Machines
She might not be a household name, but Suzanne Ciani has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments. Her five Grammy nominations are just the start of it. In 1974, the musician, sound designer,...
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Rapid Resist Activates Protestors So Lawmakers Can Hear What Their...
By early February, two weeks after Trump’s inauguration, activists had created nearly 4,000 local chapters of Indivisible, an organization designed to pressure members of Congress. That same month, two...
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How Google’s Music-Making AI Learns From Human Minds At Festivals
I’m sitting in a packed classroom when the weird noises start whirring around me. In the front of the room, lines of code pour down the screen while beeps and bloops start chiming from the laptop...
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How Google Street View Became An Art Form
On May 25, Google Street View celebrates its 10th birthday. A feature of Google Maps, it lets users explore cities and towns around the world—and even peer inside businesses and government institutions...
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A Plane Crash, A Glacier, And An Entrepreneur: How Icelandair Opened Up Air...
In the winter of 1951, Alfred Eliasson’s company, Icelandic Airlines, was about to go under. The founder and his executive team had decided to pull out of the transatlantic market just a few months...
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These High-Tech Sensors Track Exactly How Fresh Our Produce Is So We Stop...
How often have you gone to a grocery store, picked out what seems to be a fresh pint of blueberries, and opened the refrigerator door the next day to find half of them covered in mold? If your answer...
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What’s Driving The Billion-Dollar Natural Beauty Movement?
When Tata Harper’s stepfather was diagnosed with cancer, his doctors told him to remove all products containing synthetic materials, such as body washes and shampoos, from his home. In solidarity,...
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How Veteran-Run Innovation Incubators Are Training Soldiers To Run Startups
U.S. Army engineer officer Kimberly Jung found her business inspiration in a rather unlikely setting: the minefields of Afghanistan.Rumi sources saffron from local Afghan farms and employs more than...
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Sweden Lists On Airbnb, Gillette Asks Dad: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week
You just need to turn on the TV or clickety-clack the internet for five minutes to know that doing anything even remotely original in advertising is not an easy task. Now go look at some tourism ads....
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He Didn’t: An “Arrested Development” Writer On...
Lately, Twitter has come to resemble the final scene of Spartacus; with untold legions of opinion-havers all claiming to be the same person. Rather than Spartacus, however, these folks all claim to be...
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This is What Makes A Vacation Restorative
Time off helps us recover. When we’re not working, we’re able to rebuild internal resources that we depleted while dealing with the stress of work. But not all time off recharges us equally.What is it...
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