U.S. exhibit at the 2016 Architecture Biennale puts focus on the city, prompts some to criticize outside vision for area
Read More 4 Steps To Landing A Job Referral Without Any Insider Connections
A great referral can give your job application a decisive edge. Here’s how to land one even when you don’t know a soul at the company.
Quick—what’s the first thing you do if you’re looking for a new job?
How Google, Pinterest, And Others Use Internships To Push Their Diversity Initiatives
Starting before they even hit the full-time workforce, interns are playing a valuable role at changing the ratio at tech companies.
“In the world of diversity, things take time,” Candice Morgan, Pinterest’s diversity chief told Fast Company when she was hired back in January.
The Scientific Reason Why Sanders Supporters Are So Angry
It turns out there’s a straightforward psychological formula for anger, and the Democratic primaries have activated it.
Last week, Paul Simon played a concert here in Austin. Early in the show, he ran through his classic tune “Slip Slidin’ Away,” with the wonderful chorus, “You know the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip slidin’ away.”
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Trans People But Were Too Afraid To Ask
#AskTransFolks is a new social video campaign that aims to demystify trans issues.
Between Caitlyn Jenner’s celebrity, some states’ controversial bathroom bills, and the award-winning show Transparent, it’s been a high-profile year for trans issues in the news.
Reinventing The Vending Machine With Healthy, Local Food
Byte lets office workers snack on something better than a candy bar.
If your company can’t afford a Google-sized kitchen that doles out free snacks, you might be stuck with an ancient vending machine full of dusty candy bars. But a new startup is trying to offer a better option: fresh food, made by local vendors, tailored to what employees actually want to eat.
How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge
Google’s Eve Andersson tells Co.Design how today’s accessibility problems could lead to improvements in robots, Google Maps, and even YouTube.
“Accessibility is a basic human right,” Eve Andersson tells me, sitting on a lawn at the Shoreline Amphitheater during this year’s Google I/0 developer conference. “It benefits everyone.”
How Airbnb Turned Its Hosts Into Political Foot Soldiers
With swag and snacks, the company is enlisting hosts in its fierce political fight in New York. A trip to Albany on the Airbnb lobbying bus.
It’s 7:30 a.m., and a couple-dozen groggy Airbnb hosts are boarding a bus parked at the southeast side of New York City’s Union Square. Besides apartment listings on the site, they have little in common. Chris Gatto, a gray-haired freelance business coach with thick glasses, walked to the bus from his East Village apartment. Danielle Herard, an independent insurance broker, woke up at 4:30 a.m. in Crown Heights, where she uses Airbnb to help pay the rent while she starts a design business. An antiques dealer who has been priced out of her Williamsburg storefront wears an army jacket. Another host, who falls asleep under his eye mask before the bus departs, wears a literal white collar.
These 5 Startups Used Snapchat To Boost Their Brand (And So Can You)
These brands jumped on Snapchat early and have reaped the benefits. They spill their secrets here.
When Snapchat burst onto the scene in 2011, it became a sensation among teenagers who loved the idea of sending messages that disappear. In a social media landscape dominated by platforms like Facebook and Twitter that leave a permanent record of your activity, the impermanence of Snapchat’s images and videos was a breath of fresh air.
Mindfulness Migrates From The Corporate Office To The Classroom
New research supports the idea that students learn focus and self-control through mindfulness exercises
Five years ago, “grit” was all the rage in elementary education. Students who learn to persevere in the face of failure are more successful in the long term, research suggested. Schools embraced the idea—and then over-embraced it, with some going so far as to institute assessments designed to measure “grittiness.”
