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The Journey From Inmate To Entrepreneur

Is entrepreneurship an answer to America’s high recidivism rate? Fast Company explores one man’s path from prison to self-sufficiency.

Guys like us just want a chance to work and better ourselves, but that’s not so easy when you’ve served time. Your record is public information; it’s on Google. I have a lot of accomplishments to my name, but the first thing that people see when they look me up is my time in prison. You look around you at people who have no hope for a better life and it starts to wash off on you.

Angel LaCourt, 28

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Meet The Woman Behind Stephen Colbert’s Game-Changing Guest-Booking Strategy

Late Show co-executive producer Emily Lazar calls the unconventional lineup shots—and she’s changing the late-night landscape.

So far, Stephen Colbert has not completely re-wired the late-night television machine with his particular brand of arch, sharp comedy. He still knows how to go star-powered clip to star-powered clip with the viral-mad Jimmys—Fallon and Kimmel—by, say, pondering life’s mysteries with Scarlett Johansson or “silly walking” with Lupita Nyong’o. And his writing staff, as with many shows, is rather light on female talent.

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How Code+Theory Is Redesigning The “Huffington Post” To Withstand The Next Decade

The goal is to be not so much future-proof, as future-compatible.

Yesterday, Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd announced at Advertising Week that the Post, the 10-year-old news aggregator and publishing empire founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, was working with Code and Theory on a massive network redesign. But while site redesigns generally revolve around page layouts, new logos, font choices, and color schemes, the Huffington Post is taking a broader view. More than just a redesign, it’s a reconception of a blogging behemoth that racks up over 240 million page views every month.

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Jaguar’s Ian Callum On Restraint, Leadership, And Following Up On A Hit Design

“At the end of the day, I still want people to look at this car and think, I want to get in and drive it!”

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AdBlock Plus Defers To External Review Board To Choose “Acceptable Ads”

The developer of Adblock Plus, Eyeo, has decided that an independent board should determine which ads can bypass its ad-blocking filters.

Eyeo, the parent company of Adblock Plus—an ad-blocking tool that removes pesky banner ads, pop-ups, and video advertising and is available today for iOS devices—has opted to allow an external board to determine which ads are “acceptable” and can pass through Adblock Plus filters.

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The Ultimate Portable Woodburning Stove

Use the Frontier Plus in tents, sheds, tipis, and tiny houses—and pack it up when you’re done.

Anevay, a camping product company based in England, started with a humanitarian mission: its woodburning stove was initially deployed to disaster zones. After word got out about how well the product performed, Anevay put the Frontier Stove on the consumer market. Now it’s re-engineered the design and launched a Kickstarter to get the Frontier Plus on the assembly line.

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