This week’s top stories may help you brainstorm better, get a handle on your worst habits, and wind down an unwanted work friendship.
This week we learned how Googlers brainstorm, why breaking bad habits is so hard for our brains, and what it takes to end a work friendship gracefully.
The smartphone upstart delivers a whole lot of phone for far less than the industry’s biggest names.
Smartphones are looking and acting very much the same these days. So the smart play might be to create phones that look, feel, and act like a premium phone—yet cost well below $500.
What does it take to make your pet Internet famous? We took a look at the world of Instagram product endorsements to find out.
When Loni Edwards graduated from Harvard Law School, she never imagined her career would involve running a talent agency for Internet-famous pets. But shortly after moving from Los Angeles to New York, Chloe—a photogenic French mini-bulldog—changed her life.
@KngHnryVIII tells it like it is (and like how it was in the 1500s).
If the current state of politics has got you down, maybe it’s time to immerse yourself in the objectively worse governing system of the 16th century—namely, the reign of King Henry VIII.
Elle Fanning stars as an L.A. model whose beauty inspires jealousy and violence in the Drive director’s controversial latest.
The pressure on women to be what society considers “beautiful” starts at a young age, and as the father of two girls ages 13 and 7, it’s something Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn thinks about quite often. “I read a lot of fairy tales, and it’s interesting that every other word in our mythology regarding women is usually about beauty,” he tells Co.Create.
A focus on R&D has a new wave of fashion companies testing designs the way developers test software.
Inside Lululemon Labs, the cultish activewear brand’s 11th New York City location that opened in March, there’s not a single $100 yoga pant in sight. Instead, slimming pencil skirts, crisp blazers, and creased trousers—all in a distinctly N.Y.C. palette of black, white, navy, and gray—line the walls. Catering to New Yorkers, the store sells clothing designed for professionals but constructed out of the brand’s high-performance materials. Behind the sales floor, the design team toils away in an office in the back.
In an ideal world, you’d give your all 100% of the time. In real life, you sometimes can’t. Here’s when and how to own up to it.
Everyone has an occasional crisis of confidence. You’re about to turn something in and you wonder, “Is it good enough?” Then, your next thought is, “Do I need to say something to my boss?”
Mistakes aren’t all fatal. In fact, they’re inevitable. Here are a few that new entrepreneurs can learn from the most.
Every successful entrepreneur has horror stories. When it’s you and your idea against the world—at least that’s what it feels like during the dark midnight-oil-burning times—you’re going to drop the ball, bite off more than you can chew, and make mistakes.
Scientists have figured out how to make electronics as pliable as a temporary tattoo—meaning the next big tech platform may be your skin.
If you purchase La Roche-Posay sunscreen this summer, it may come with a complimentary device that looks something like a heart-shaped Band-Aid. But it’s even thinner—half the width of a human hair—and unlike a Band-Aid, it contains miniature electronics that connect to your smartphone and monitor your sun exposure in real time.
These simple tips can keep your name on your contacts’ radar regularly but unobtrusively.
Ever notice how moving forward in your career comes down to networking? Eighty percent of job openings are never publicly advertised, according to a 2013 Wall Street Journal article. That makes all those business cards you’ve collected and LinkedIn connections you’ve made extremely important.
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