Setting “implementation intentions” is about creating an automatic, specific response to each obstacle in your way.
In his 1999 bestseller, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma tells a story of a group of monks in India who, whenever they have a negative thought, make a treacherous hike to a large waterfall. They stand underneath the pounding, freezing water until the negative thought is “washed away from them.”
As work changes at warp speed, here are 2025’s hottest job sectors (and the skills you’ll need to work in them).
Two-thirds of Americans believe that, in 50 years, robots and computers will do much of the work humans now do. The World Economic Forum’s 2016 report, The Future of Jobs, estimates that 5 million jobs will be lost to automation by 2020 and that the number will keep growing. Jobs that once seemed like “safe bets”—office workers and administrative personnel, manufacturing, and even law—will be hit hardest, the report estimates.
Even with Buffer’s commitment to full disclosure, the company found it was still paying women less than men. Here’s why.
Salary transparency is a great equalizer in theory; when everyone knows what everyone else is making, it’s hard for wage gaps to exist. In practice, it’s a bit more complicated and doesn’t always work as intended.
New lighting plans on airlines are helping passengers adjust to new schedules. But how close are we to eliminating jet lag altogether?
When flight attendants start wheeling out dinner service on certain Singapore Airlines flights headed east, the cabin lighting dims to mimic candlelight. During dessert—though it’s still light outside—the cabin lights up to look like sunset. By the next morning, a few hours before passengers have to wake up, the lights simulate sunrise.
Office-space marketplaces like LiquidSpace use a different model to capitalize on the same trends that fueled WeWork’s success.
When PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently modernized the majority of its 83 U.S. offices, it added more common space and made each office smaller, reducing the space per employee by 30%. “More and more we are a virtual company,” says Toni Cusumano, a principal in the company’s global human capital practice. “People don’t go into our offices the way they used to. We’ve shifted down.”
MM.LaFleur has found success selling workwear to busy women who want to look great but defy stereotypes about fashion.
“I’m so sick of the stereotype that all women are shopping-obsessed,” Sarah LaFleur, the 32-year-old cofounder of the workwear brand MM.LaFleur, tells Fast Company.
Could VR be for medicine what CAD was for architects?
I stand, a cyborg micronaut, in front of the biggest human heart any person has ever seen.
Ahead of the season-six premiere of Game of Thrones, the cast promotes its charity contest with Omaze by playing a surprisingly tough game.
WHAT: A surprisingly difficult game of “Sword Name or Metal Band” where some people who should really know better have to determine the provenance of titles like Oathkeeper and Savage Grace.
Hadid died suddenly while hospitalized in Miami.
Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-British architect who led the movement for expressive, formal experimentation in architecture, has died at 65.
The Watch was running a tour guide app by Guidekick that delivered notifications and audio commentary for each piece in the exhibit.
In some ways, the Apple Watch is a device in search of a killer use case, and I believe it will eventually find one, probably many. In the meantime we’re seeing a few apps that point at that tantalizing future. Apple invited me to an event at the de Young Museum in San Francisco recently to show me one of them.
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