This Flowchart Tells You Which Fictional Boss You Are
“Would I rather be feared or loved?” Michael Scott, Steve Carell’s character on The Officeonce mused. “Easy: Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”Everyone has a different...
View ArticleThe Busy Working Father’s Guide To “Having It All”
Women typically spend more time on household chores and caring for children than their male partners (something called the”gender leisure gap“).However, that dynamic doesn’t apply to all households....
View ArticleAnthony Romero Is The ACLU’s Power Broker
Anthony Romero was the first one in his office on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sat at his desk, which overlooks the Statue of Liberty...
View ArticleThe Simple Menu Innovations That Science Says Can Get People To Order...
Take two menu items: “slow-roasted caramelized zucchini bites” and “nutritious green zucchini.” Science says you’re more likely to pick the first. That’s just some of the findings in a new study that...
View ArticleWhy Facebook, Google, And Snap Love AR—And What’s Coming Next
“If you take one thing away from today,” Mark Zuckerberg announced in April from the stage of F8, Facebook’s annual conference for developers, “this is it: We’re making the [smartphone] camera the...
View ArticleNike’s Head Start
While Amna Al Haddad, a weight lifter from Dubai, was training for the 2016 Olympics, Nike offered to help optimize her performance. At the company’s Oregon campus, scientists used motion-capture...
View ArticleSeven Ways AR May Change Your Life
How will people use augmented reality? It may be easier to list the ways they won’t. Here are a few applications in the works, both playful and profound.Ink-Free TattoosNot sure about that new tat? The...
View ArticleHmbldt Gives Medical Marijuana A Dose Of Predictability
Hmbldt, a startup based in Los Angeles, wants to make medical marijuana as predictable as Advil. Now legal in 29 states, cannabis is increasingly used to treat conditions ranging from nagging headaches...
View ArticleHow Tiny Satellites Are Changing The Way We Do Business
Space is a lot closer than it used to be. Companies like Planet and Spire are sending more cameras into orbit than ever before, providing an unprecedented near-real-time view of of every corner of the...
View ArticleThe CEO Of Flywheel Sports Wants You To Celebrate Your Failures
When the indoor-cycling startup Flywheel Sports asked Sarah Robb O’Hagan to be its new CEO in 2016, she didn’t have to think long about her answer. “I was like, ‘Absolutely not,’ ” recalls the...
View ArticleThis Is What Employees Of Companies Like Google, Facebook, And Amazon Think...
By many reports, 2017 is a buyer’s market for job seekers. In tech, the competition is especially fierce, as companies rise or fall from consumer favor or teeter under the weight of internal troubles...
View ArticleThis Finnish Startup Says It’s Building Tomorrow’s VR Displays Today
The biggest stumbling block to widespread adoption of high-end virtual reality systems, in both the consumer and business markets, may be the relatively low-resolution screens today’s headsets...
View ArticleThis Coworking Space’s Answer To The Startup World’s Gender Gap:...
When the cast of MTV’s The Real World: Seattle moved out of its 11,000-square-foot loft in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood last year, Kim Peltola and Amy Nelson moved in. Then they painted the...
View ArticleEvery Week, This Newsletter Will Transport You Into Our Radically Sustainable...
Alex Steffen is a planetary futurist, which means that he spends his days thinking about where our world is heading. Especially in 2017, that sounds like a prescription for anxiety: visions of mass...
View ArticleFacebook Unveils New Tools For Marketers To Create And Test Mobile Ads
In 2016, Facebook took in about $27 billion in ad revenue, second in the world only to Google’s monstrous $79 billion, and more than double the globe’s third-biggest advertising earner Comcast. So it’s...
View ArticleBonobos Founder Andy Dunn Knows You Might Be Mad At Him For Joining Walmart
Last Friday, the plate tectonics of the e-commerce world shifted.Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, acquired high-end grocer Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. On the same day, Walmart, which...
View ArticleThe Diary Of An Ex-Tesla Intern
One of the hottest tech industries in recent years is also one of the oldest. The automotive industry helped completely transform American society by the mid-20th century.The cultural and societal...
View ArticleWhy This “Handmaid’s Tale” Director Is Going Full Dystopia...
Not every successful up-and-coming filmmaker can pinpoint when they knew they’d arrived, but for director Reed Morano it’s a no-brainer. It was the moment Saturday Night Live parodied Hulu’s adaptation...
View ArticleIs Snapchat-Style Video The Productivity Tool Your Team’s Been Missing?
My dad was a kind and gentle man. The only time I saw him flustered was when the phone rang during dinnertime. He’d snatch up the receiver and lecture the telemarketer on the other end of the line: “Do...
View ArticleHow These Black Ad Execs Are Challenging Their Industry To Unite The World
The issue of diversity and inclusion in the advertising and marketing industry is a hot topic at this year’s Cannes Lions festival, but one panel on Sunday added a twist to the issue by challenging the...
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