Five years ago, it was an abandoned building. Today, the incubator creates jobs, Detroit-made products sold worldwide
Read More Why We Secretly Want Leaders Who’ll Be Unethical On Our Behalf
We want to feel like good people, but we also want self-interested outcomes. Some leaders let us have both.
How did Donald Trump emerge as the Republican presidential nominee? That’s a question political analysts and pundits will be trying to answer for years, even though there’s already no shortage of theories.
Three Ways Your Workspace Is Quietly Hurting Your Productivity
We don’t so much adapt to less-than-ideal work environments as merely put up with them.
For most of us, our workspace is what it is. If your employer has cubicles or one long communal table, then that’s where you work, and the best you can do is adapt. The trouble is that many of us don’t adapt to less-than-ideal work environments as well as we could. More often, we just put up with them.
How To Do Facebook Live Well
Facebook’s new live video tool offers great possibilities for building community if you’re smart about using it.
Online video is nothing new, and neither is Facebook, but in the past year, Facebook has rolled out a new tool to all users that combines the two in intriguing ways. Facebook Live allows anyone to broadcast live video to friends and followers while interacting with the people who are tuned in.
How To Make Chatbots That Are Actually Worth Talking To
An advertising copywriter’s perspective on the new bot era.
The bots are coming. Every day now there’s a new announcement of a major media or technology player betting big on the future of chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, that will do everything from helping us book trips to controlling our ever-smarter homes.
The Internet’s 10 “Ugliest” Websites
Pascal Deville finds beauty in websites others abhor. Here are his picks for the Internet’s most beautiful atrocities.
Craigslist is one of the ugliest websites on the Internet. The home page is an indistinct wall of links and text, the site is tough to navigate, the postings are cluttered, and the design has barely changed in the past 15 years. At a time when websites are competing to offer the best digital experiences, Craigslist is the pinnacle of user unfriendliness. And that’s exactly what makes it brilliant, says Pascal Deville.
This New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, And Handle Its Own Waste
ReGen Village, outside of Amsterdam, doesn’t need a grid or food systems. It’s a model for a future, fully closed-loop settlement.
If you live inside one of the houses in a new neighborhood being built in an Amsterdam suburb, your dining room might be next to an indoor vegetable garden. Outside, you’ll have another seasonal garden. And down the street, almost everything you eat will be grown in high-tech vertical farms.
This One Thing Gives Women The Edge In Crowdfunding
The use of language and the ability to tell a story helps level the playing field for women entrepreneurs seeking funding through Indiegogo.
From glass ceilings to wage gaps, women in the workforce are often at a disadvantage. For female entrepreneurs, the challenges are sometimes even greater. But recent research has uncovered something that is working in women founders’ favor: storytelling on crowdfunding platforms.
Due To Fuzzy Rules, Sharing-Economy Workers Often Underpay Or Overpay Their Taxes
The IRS, sharing-economy companies (such as Uber and TaskRabbit), and contract workers may have to work together to fix the problem.
The U.S. tax system was not prepared for the rise of on-demand or sharing-economy businesses like Uber and TaskRabbit. Or maybe it’s that sharing-economy contractors have trouble navigating the labyrinthine tax code.
Spotify’s Discover Weekly Has 40 Million Listeners–More Than Apple Music And Tidal
Not even a year after launch, the playlist is boasting some big, impressive numbers.
We knew that Discover Weekly was a hit when we saw our friends on Spotify listening to the personalized playlist in droves. Now the data keeps rolling in: Discover Weekly has streamed nearly 5 billion tracks since its launch last July. All told, 40 million Spotify listeners have used Discover Weekly. That’s about three times the number of people using Apple Music and Tidal combined.
