Independent designer Jessica Hische, Dropbox’s Anisha Jain, and Pinterest’s Tiffani Jones Brown share tips for operating at your best.
No one designer is the same, and only you can create and maintain the personal conditions that make your unique talents shine. At Designer Fund’s Women in Design: Voice and Risk event, I spoke to Dropbox’s Anisha Jain, Pinterest’s Tiffani Jones Brown, and independent designer Jessica Hische about how to carve out a professional niche and do your best work.
Andy Stern, former head of the SEIU, makes the case for a universal payment to end poverty—and offers a strategy for how we get there.
The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) potentially solves a lot of problems at once. By sending a regular payment to all citizens, we could end abject poverty, deal with technological unemployment, reduce the overall cost of government, give more autonomy to people, and gain support from across the ideological divide as we do it (in theory, anyway). In its long history, some form of UBI has been supported by everyone from Martin Luther King to the libertarian economist Milton Friedman, indicating its unusual appeal.
The First Lady did an effective job of listing the shortcomings that she claims make Trump unfit for the presidency.
At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday night, marquee speaker Michelle Obama wasted no time reinforcing the night’s attacks on Donald Trump—the only time in recent memory that a First Lady has lashed out at the opposing party’s nominee— by strongly going after his character and yet she managed to stay above the fray of a tense election by never mentioning his name.
From those first critical five minutes to the right way to say “thank you,” we’ve gathered the best tips on how to ace any job interview.
It’s a great time to be looking for a job. There were 5.5 million jobs open last month across sectors from technology to health care, retail, and manufacturing. Couple that with the capability to search and apply for jobs online and via mobile and candidates now have more control over the job-seeking process than ever.
Returning to work after leave might be the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your worth.
You just had a baby and your employer just accommodated your maternity leave.
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.
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.
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.
Three months ago, Jeanna Barrett traded a beige office in San Francisco for a palapa on the Caribbean. This is how she pulled it off.
Three months ago, I worked in San Francisco as a marketing leader for a unicorn startup. I earned a salary that let me do, eat, and buy whatever I wanted. Now, I live and work from a beach in Belize, earn half of what I used to, and couldn’t be happier.
Verizon EVP Marni Walden explains why Verizon just paid $4.8 billion for Yahoo. One big reason? Yahoo’s 600 million monthly mobile users.
After months of speculation and intrigue, the bidding war for Yahoo came to an end today with the announcement that Verizon has agreed to acquire the former search giant’s digital assets for $4.83 billion in cash. Under the terms of the deal, Yahoo’s remaining assets, including its non-core patents and stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, will become part of a publicly traded investment company and rebranded under a new name.
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