Because men need book clubs, too.
Men-only books clubs are a hot new trend, the New York Times reports, citing such groups as “The Man Book Club” and “International Ultra Manly Book Club.” You can come up with better names than that!
Learning From Data Viz Pioneer Edward Tufte: 5 Lessons For Interface Designers
Above all else, show the data.
Think about how much data you sift through on a daily basis. You might search Amazon for a new book, read the latest headlines on nytimes.com, browse Spotify for the best soundtracks, and check your wearable to see if you’ve logged enough steps—and that’s only a tiny sliver of the data that floats around the world each day. The numbers can be mind-boggling.
Millennials Are Now The Largest Generation–Get Used To It
After years of boomer hand-wringing about what exactly is wrong with our young people, it’s time to move aside. The millennials are taking over.
If you were born between 1981 and 1997, you’re part of the largest generation now living in the United States. Millennials recently passed baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964) as the biggest generational group, according to Pew Research.
How Whit Stillman’s “Terrible Period” Made Him A Better Filmmaker
The Metropolitan writer-director talks to Co.Create about how struggling to get films made eventually led him to Jane Austen.
With the films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman immortalized the 1% percent milieu of coming-of-age WASPs in the era of Izod’s and Drakkar Noir. In the process, the writer-director became a required cultural icon for aspiring sophisticates—or, U.H.B.s (urban haute bourgeoisie), as Whitman classified his subjects. His autobiographical films were quotable, quippy satires of a class that is typically treated with cartoonish condescension. Stillman chose to bestow on them traces of dignity, slyly defending their nostalgia for a simpler time when old money and a Seven Sisters degree was the equivalent of dropping out of Harvard to found a startup.
How This Accelerator Is Creating More Women Investors
Operating on a global scale, Angel Labs’ programs and community are increasing the number of female angel and VC investors in 41 countries.
Funding is an essential part of starting and growing a business. The lack of it can stop an idea from becoming a product or service dead in its tracks. Even companies that have raised $1.3 million have failed before their second year, according to the most recent analysis by CB Insights. The fact that venture capital funding got even more scarce at the end of 2015, is a challenge to startups, particularly to those owned by women.
How I Learned To Stop Hating Networking Events (Mostly)
Networking events can be awkward but are still the best way to meet people who can help your career. Here’s how to make them less painful.
“Would you like the opportunity to network with some of the most influential professionals in your field?” asks the latest invite to hit your inbox. Of course you wouldn’t—networking totally sucks, you remind yourself as you scroll down looking for that minuscule “unsubscribe” link.
Tips On Getting The Coveted Moms of Instagram To Love You, From A Brand That Did It
Sixty-eight percent of American moms use Instagram daily. Freshly Picked shares tips about how to get them to follow your brand.
In 2012, Susan Petersen was at a conference listening to a business speaker drone on about how important it is for companies to be where their customers hang out. As the founder of Freshly Picked, a company that makes tiny leather moccasins for babies, her target demographic was new moms. “I thought, my customers spend all their time breastfeeding,” she recalls. “Instagram is the only social platform that lends itself to a one-finger scroll, so I’m going to put all my eggs in the Instagram basket.”
How Artificial Intelligence Will Make You A Better Writer
Textio, a service that helps job recruiters by flagging both good and poor phrasing, now aims to be a real-time writing coach.
The best way to make your writing better is to show it to someone who knows the topic at least as well as you do. That someone can now be an artificial intelligence system that reads and learns faster and more deeply than a human can, says linguist and cognitive scientist Kieran Snyder. Her company, Textio, has launched a new AI web service called Opportunities that she says can figure out what you are trying to say and suggest better ways to do it—within 0.3 seconds.
Watch Channing Tatum’s Fantastic Interview With A Nonverbal Autism Activist
Carly Fleischmann says what we’re all thinking about the Magic Mike XXL actor in the charming Speechless with Carly episode.
Author and autism activist Carly Fleischmann recently unveiled her new show, Speechless with Carly Fleischmann. Her first guest? Actor/dancer/drill-wielding superstar Channing Tatum.
Why Big Businesses Are Becoming More Progressive
The top financial firms are finally realizing why they should look beyond old white men.
Corporate eyes are opening, or at least that’s what they’re saying.
