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Serenbe, a planned sustainable community, is a new village designed to help its residents gracefully age in place.
Serenbe, a planned sustainable community, is a new village designed to help its residents gracefully age in place.
Fifteen years into an unplanned second career as a real-estate developer, Steve Nygren has timed his latest project perfectly. Nygren is the cofounder and developer of Serenbe, a visionary New Urbanist community in Chattahoochee Hills, outside Atlanta. Since breaking ground in 2004, Serenbe has grown to include two villages of about 500 residents. Praised by urban planners, architects, and sustainability geeks alike, Serenbe is, by most accounts, a nice place to live. (You do have to be comfortable with a certain Truman Show vibe, though.) Homes, priced from $300,000 to more than $1 million, sell briskly. Now, with construction of Serenbe’s third village—or “hamlet” in the local parlance—Nygren aims to make Serenbe a great place to grow old. And maybe a model for a new kind of retirement community.
5 Design Jobs That Won’t Exist In The Future
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.
Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years.
Four Unique Ways These Companies Are Finding The Best Job Candidates
Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates’ best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.
Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates’ best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.
Hiring is a lot like dating: Both parties are often on their best behavior during the interview process, and you often don’t know if the candidate and company are a good match until several months later. Unfortunately that can cost an employer time and money.
Just As You Feared, Hating Your Job Is Also Wrecking Your Health
New research suggests troubling links between job dissatisfaction and physical and mental health troubles.
New research suggests troubling links between job dissatisfaction and physical and mental health troubles.
You know that saying, “This job may be hazardous to your health?” Those words, according to a recent study, might not solely apply to careers spent around toxic waste or malfunctioning equipment—they could very well describe any career that’s leaving you unsatisfied.
These Tech Workers Don’t Need To Know How To Code, And Neither Do You
Knowing how to code can take you far, but it’s not necessary in order to work in the sector.
Knowing how to code can take you far, but it’s not necessary in order to work in the sector.
Many years back, the battle cry began: Learn To Code! That call has only become louder since, with numerous bootcamps touting the idea that if you learn the basics of computer programming, you will almost certainly be guaranteed a sweet gig. Indeed, Bloomberg Businessweek devoted an entire issue to explaining precisely what code is.
Researchers Have A Vision: Cure Blindness By Regrowing Retinas And Optic Nerves
The government’s National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons.
The government’s National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons.
Neurons are for life, as are diseases and injuries that destroy them. That’s the painful truth for people who lose their vision to diseases like macular degeneration or glaucoma, which destroy the retina—the image sensor of the eye—or the optic nerve that connects eyes to the brain. But some laws of human health were made to be broken, and that may soon be true for the law of irreversible nerve damage. The U.S. government’s National Eye Institute said today that it will put up $12.4 million to fund six studies on technologies that can regenerate damaged eyes.
Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer
At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.
At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.
Thirty-seven years ago, New York-based APF Electronics, Inc. released The Imagination Machine, a hybrid video game console and personal computer designed to make a consumer’s first experience with computing as painless and inexpensive as possible.
APF’s playful computer (and its game console, the MP1000) never rivaled the impact of products from Apple or Atari, but they remain historically important because of the man who cocreated them: Ed Smith, one of the first African-American electronics engineers in the video game industry. During a time when black Americans struggled for social justice, Manhattan-based APF hired Smith to design the core element of its future electronics business.
3 Digital Decisions You’ll Regret Someday
Team messaging platforms, social media, and even using your own devices at work all have the potential to kill your current job.
Team messaging platforms, social media, and even using your own devices at work all have the potential to kill your current job.
The big-ticket career gaffes are pretty well-known: Don’t tell off your boss. Don’t quit on the spot—especially if you don’t have another job lined up. And try not to get too sloppy during office happy hour.
How To Rescue Your Attention Span From Information Overload
The average person’s attention span is now less than that of a goldfish’s. Stop the onslaught and regain your focus.
The average person’s attention span is now less than that of a goldfish’s. Stop the onslaught and regain your focus.
We like to know what’s going on. Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a December 2014 Pew Internet and American Life survey said that the internet and mobile phones help them learn new things, and 72% like having access to so much information.
