“We are taking a bottoms-up approach,” says CEO Jonathan Bush.
Edmund Billings spends about three weeks out of the month living out of a suitcase. He racked up 20,000 miles on the road in the past nine months, while driving to some of the most rural and remote parts of the country.
CB Insights added personality to its newsletter, and it’s become a real way to attract customers.
“I love you.”
Tricks for calming your worries and turning them into productive action.
“Worry is universal,” says behavioral psychologist Simon Rego, coauthor of the Worry Less Report: A White Paper on the Prevalence of Worrying & Coping Mechanisms for Americans At Home Or On the Road for Liberty Mutual Insurance. “The most telling statistic in our entire review was that about 40% of population worried daily. There’s got to be a usefulness to it; it wouldn’t be so prevalent if there wasn’t a function to worry.”
With Obama leaving office and “Elbowgate” behind him, all eyes are on Canada’s top leader and the skills he brings to the job.
This week, just two months after the much-debated elbowing incident in the Canadian Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau landed on the cover of a Marvel comic book. Clearly, and despite his detractors, Trudeau is having a moment.
Would you rather get your news directly from publishers or from your Facebook friends?
If you’ve been feeling like Facebook is clogging up your News Feed with too many dispiriting news stories and not enough cute baby pictures, this one’s for you: The social network is tweaking its algorithm yet again, much to the dismay of publishers. After receiving user feedback that people were missing updates from friends and family, Facebook is pushing those types of posts—be it links, photos, or videos—to the top of your News Feed. It’s an expansion of a similar change the social network made last year.
The fantasy series has 15 episodes left at most. Here, our predictions for its next season.
Our watch is (nearly) ended.
The old way of designing brands is in desperate need of a rethink, writes Edenspiekermann’s Paul Woods.
A couple years ago, I was interviewing for a job as digital design director at a (well-known) branding agency. After the usual pleasantries, we landed on the details of what the role would entail. To my dismay, the agency’s interpretation of “digital” was simply putting a new logo onto website mockups at the tail end of an extensive guidelines document. It was clear that digital was very much an afterthought in their branding process and that the position was not for me.
To rank higher on the Social Progress Index, we need to improve our “environmental quality,” “health and wellness,” and “personal safety” numbers.
Though the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, it’s not necessarily one of the most successful. When you take a broad view of social progress—incorporating measures of health, happiness, the environment, and levels of security—we’re actually down the list of big hitters. Nations such as Sweden and the Netherlands have broader-based prosperity and better access to services like health care and housing.
The U.K.’s vote to leave the EU will have a far-reaching effect on travel to and from the country. Here’s how.
As the Brexit fallout continues, it becomes increasingly clear that the wallets of the country’s travelers will feel the pinch. The British pound tanked on Friday and continued its free fall on Monday against major currencies, hitting a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar.
The Internet’s designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.
One of us is writing this piece from an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean. The other is working from his home in California. Not long ago this would have sounded like science fiction. Today it’s becoming routine in a world where we do more and more with amazing digital tools on far-flung networks.
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