Sometimes slow and steady incremental innovation wins the race.
What does a winning Formula One driver have in common with a business leader? Each counts speed, agility, precision, and teamwork as essential parts of their toolkit for success.
FCLA 2016 In Photos: Meditation, Innovation, And Inspired Creation
This week, Fast Company hit L.A. to bring together the most creative minds under the sun. See how it all went down.
When Fast Company‘s FCLA 2016 festival kicked off earlier this week, expectations were high. Attendees would be shown the inner workings of some of Southern California’s most creative studios, businesses, and incubators, get a chance to hear directly from the biggest names in entertainment, the culinary arts, tech, and more, and mingle and network amongst themselves against the backdrop of the gorgeous Playa Vista campus of 72andSunny.
This Beautifully Illustrated Book Shows Kids A Sustainable Urban Future
Think Richard Scarry, but with more bikes, high-speed rail, and wind turbines.
It’s a fact of the children’s publishing world that toddlers love books about trains and cars. But they tend to be a little dated—Thomas the Tank Engine runs on coal. A new kids’ book tells the story of a road trip and city infrastructure, based on the latest sustainable technology.
Don’t Be Surprised If Google’s New Animated Short Wins An Oscar
The best way to watch Pearl is the way it wasn’t intended to be seen: in VR. Ironically, that version won’t be Academy-eligible.
There are films that make you feel like a kid again. There are films that make you feel the invincible freedom of your teenage years. And there are films that capture the pangs of parenthood.
How Airbnb Made Its Payments System More Accessible To Brazilians For The Rio Olympics
Rio is now Airbnb’s fourth largest city. The company has updated its payments system there so that locals can more easily use the site.
In 2014, when Brazil hosted the World Cup, the number of Airbnb listings in Rio alone rocketed from about 800 to 17,000. But most Brazilians couldn’t use their preferred payment methods to book a room on the homesharing site.
How I’ve Made Smart Hires As My Company Quadrupled In 10 Months
The Muse has grown to four times the size of its former self in under a year. CEO Kathryn Minshew explains what that’s taught her.
One of the most exciting parts of growing your company is bringing on new talent. An infusion of new people brings fresh perspectives, ideas, and energy—not to mention those much-needed extra hands.
Why We Are Better At Making Decisions For Other People
The science behind why we are terrible at making decisions for ourselves but are so quick to say “I told you so.”
If you’ve ever started a sentence with, “If I were you . . . ” or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague’s agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there’s a scientific reason behind it. Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn’t suffer the same pitfalls, according to a study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science.
Gary Numan Thinks The Music Industry’s Collapse Is A Beautiful Thing
We talked to synth pop pioneer Gary Numan about Moog synthesizers and the state of the music industry.
Gary Numan was an accidental pioneer. While recording with his band Tubeway Army in 1978, the British musician stumbled across the Minimoog synthesizer and began using the machine to give his songs a more electronic flavor. Despite his record label’s fierce skepticism, Numan would quickly score now-recognizable hits like “Cars” and “Are Friends Electric?”
Inside A Growing Movement Of Coworking Spaces For Atypical Entrepreneurs
In places like Detroit and Cleveland a grassroots coworking movement is welcoming minority and low-income entrepreneurs and artists.
Long Beach, California-based WE Labs just opened its second coworking space in the historic Packard Building, a Spanish Baroque-styled car showroom from the 1920s. Behind it is an empty lot, next door is an auto body shop, down the street are swanky new apartments, and a block away is the light rail. It looks like a textbook gentrification setting, but WE Labs’s clients differ from what you’d expect at mainstream, big-city coworking spaces like those in the WeWork empire. They include a bookkeeper, a mental health services nonprofit, painters, and a roller derby-themed fashion designer. Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. – 6p.m. access is $175 per month—on the low side for coworking space in the L.A. area.
Spill-proof cups for children recalled due to mold risk
Ingestion of the mold can cause gastrointestinal symptoms and infections in those with compromised immune systems
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