Do socks really “spark joy?” This writer went through (nearly) every item in her house with some surprising results.
I hate clutter. Growing up, my favorite book (and the only one I kept from my childhood) was The Boxcar Children, a story of four orphans who live in an abandoned train car with few belongings. I didn’t realize it until I became an adult, but this book resonated with me because I’ve always had minimalist tendencies. Less is definitely more.
Menstruating at the office can sap women’s productivity, but a new breed of startups is working to make it less of a hassle.
Nancy Kramer, founder and CEO of the 330-person marketing agency Resource, was sitting in a swanky conference room in Silicon Valley with a potential client. She steeled herself in the moments before her presentation, ready to clinch a multi-million dollar deal. As negotiations heated up, she suddenly felt a trickle between her legs. She performed some mental calculations and realized that her period had arrived early. Unprepared, she excused herself to go to the bathroom only to find that there was not a tampon or pad dispenser in sight. She returned to her seat at the table, trying desperately not to get sidetracked by fear that she might leave the meeting with an unsightly stain at the back of her dress or worse, on the chair.
The unglamorous job of going door to door can teach you a lot about political leadership and organizing.
Every morning Brynne Craig arrives at the Hillary Clinton headquarters in Brooklyn by 7 a.m. to do a load of campaign tasks—planning state outreach, reaching out to coalitions, prioritizing new small-scale projects—although they change everyday. This week, with the Democratic National Convention her schedule will be even crazier There she’ll be keeping tabs on all the projects she currently mans while helping to facilitate the quadrennial conference.
EpiWatch, from Johns Hopkins, used ResearchKit to gather enough data that the creators believe they will soon be able to detect seizures before they happen.
Shaina Mims was diagnosed with epilepsy after having a seizure at work in 2008, and she’s lived with seizures ever since.
We live in a world of malware and malicious hackers. So why aren’t there more experts trained to fight these threats?
Security breaches and digital attacks are a regular part of the news cycle these days. An even scarier reality is that, according to experts, there aren’t enough people trained to fend off these cyber raids.
You might not be finding a good mentor because you’re looking for the wrong things in the wrong places.
I can’t tell you how many times in the course of my consulting work—no, I take that back—in the course of my entire and not-short career as a designer, design firm executive, and consultant to creative professionals, that I’ve had someone convey to me their desire for a mentor.
Before you set that out-of-office message and hit the beach, make sure you cross these things off your checklist.
Your boss granted your time-off request, and now you’re counting down the days until that much-needed getaway. You might already be on vacation in your mind, but there are a few bases that absolutely must be covered at work before your body actually leaves the building.
Likability isn’t some innate quality that you have or you don’t. It comes down to what you do when you get up to speak.
Preparing for a talk? You’re probably brushing up on your material, making sure you’ve got a great opening and closing planned, and practicing your pacing. And that’s all great. But one thing few of us step back and think about is whether our audience will actually like us.
Less than a fifth of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities are employed, but business leaders can help change that.
Everyone deserves a chance to succeed. And by my estimation, no group has been refused that opportunity more than people living with disabilities (PLWD). Sadly, less than one-fifth of this population is employed.
To promote nature conservation, Andy Quitmeyer and a team of Filipino villagers created a cutting-edge tech and arts lab.
If you were given $10,000 to improve a community in another country using art, how would you do it?
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