Breaking the deadly habit of sitting all day before the habit starts.
As much as you might want to ditch your office chair for a standing desk, a lifetime of sitting is a hard habit to break. So when a group of designers decided to attack the culture of sitting, they realized that they should start at the beginning and make a kid-sized standing desk.
Pay $5 for a Dash button, and you’ll get $5 back from Amazon once you make a purchase.
In July, Amazon officially debuted its Dash button: an Internet-connected, branded, physical button that orders refills of various products with a single press. As of Wednesday, the e-commerce giant is making the Dash button program available to all Prime subscribers—and giving you a rebate that essentially refunds the price of the button.
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Remember when Facebook forced you to download its standalone messaging app, Messenger, by revoking access to messages from within its flagship app? Turns out that strategy worked swimmingly for the social network: A new report by app analytics firm App Annie says Messenger is one of the most downloaded iOS apps of all time.
Staying focused on the right things can make all the difference.
There are three skills you need to be financially successful: making money, keeping money, growing money. James Altucher is mostly only good at making money.
In the absence of unions, creative freelancers are finding new ways to work collectively.
“On average, our members are owed over $10,000 in unpaid invoices and spend 36 hours tracking down each missing payment,” says Freelancers Union founder and labor lawyer Sara Horowitz. She explains that nearly half (44%) of their members report issues in getting paid.
Given the vast amounts of data Google has on us through our searches, it’s a wonder they haven’t done this sooner.
It’s been the subject of a feature film, a main theme of a best-selling book, a source of endless speculation and analysis (yielding 21 million results on the search “how google hires”), and a holy grail-like quest for some two million hopefuls per year.
The charity organization has been opening stylish, well-curated boutique stores in affluent areas in an effort to expand their retail operation.
Upon entering Rare, a boutique in Anaheim, California, customers are greeted with chicly dressed mannequins and standing racks full of designer clothing. Vintage furniture is arranged in a lounge area in the corner, below a cluster of hanging succulents. In the back of the store, behind a set of very DIY-looking book shelves that double as a reading area, a sign printed on a wall of stacked books boasts, “We are anything but ordinary. We are Rare.”
Misogyny. Racism. Reddit can be a bad place. Has it rubbed off on you?
It was the most nervous I’ve been on the Internet in a long time. I barely use Reddit. And when I do, it’s not exactly to share virtual high fives at recently defunct cesspools of racism like #coontown. But typing my username into FreeRedditCheck, knowing that it was about to scan years of my Reddit history and assign me a percentage score for “Terrible.” Bloggers have weird browsing histories, okay?
Care for the “3-to-2” road diet? Or how about an old “4-to-2” instead? This video shows all the innovative ways you can make room for bikes on the road.
Bike lanes encourage people to cycle more (which is good for their health), boost revenue at stores along the route, and even cut traffic congestion. So, how do we get more bike lanes?
Elizabeth Gore is spearheading a campaign to build a worldwide support network for new businesses for the next 15 years.
As the world prepares to create 600 million new jobs by a deadline of 2020, Dell entrepreneur in residence Elizabeth Gore is trying to put entrepreneur support on the UN’s official agenda for the next 15 years.
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