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Fast Company Editors Admit Their Biggest Regrets From 2015

We’ve compiled our biggest regrets this past year into a 3-minute video. Please don’t judge.

New Year’s Day is approaching: a time to reflect on the past year and to make resolutions that will make you a better person. Our very own Noah Robischon and Anjali Mullany are doing just that, looking back at what Fast Company and its staff regret writing about this past year. Perhaps we shouldn’t have added to the over-saturated field of Donald Trump coverage. Why did we write about The Dress? Tell us how we can do better in 2016—and share your own regrets—using the hashtag #29thfloor on Twitter.

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1995: The Year Everything Changed

Why everything from Amazon and eBay to Windows 95 and the PalmPilot came along in one memorable, wildly innovative 12-month period.

On November 6, 1995, the first issue of Fast Company debuted. Its founders, Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, were former Harvard Business Review editors who had been working on the idea for a while: in fact, they’d produced a prototype version in 1993. With funding from media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, they began regular publication with a cover that famously declared that business is personal, computing is social, and knowledge is power. The mantra was so prescient that it still captures our perspective two decades later.

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