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6 Rules For Great Storytelling, From A Moth-Approved Master Of The Form

Moth storytelling champ Margot Leitman has been hired by Facebook and others to help them learn how to spin a yarn. These are her rules.

Some years ago, writes Margot Leitman in her new book, Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need, when she was an aspiring actress in New York, she was preparing to rush to an audition when she burned her neck with a curling iron. “It looked like a giant hickey,” she writes. “There was no makeup that could cover it up; I had to go with it.” She entered the audition room and explained away the burn—not a hickey, she said; her dating history had been terrible lately. The casting director asked her to explain, and she responded with a story about a disastrous recent date where the guy actually balanced his checkbook at the table.

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This Frighteningly Smart Office Building Knows Exactly What You Want, When You Want It

The Edge may be the most connected—and greenest—office anywhere in the world. Is this the future of working?

When you pull up for work at Deloitte’s new office building in Amsterdam, the garage automatically recognizes your car or bike, opens the gate, and guides you to a parking spot and a free electric charger. The office app assigns you a desk, based on your schedule for the day and whether you’re in the mood for a standing desk or a place to concentrate. Once you start work, you can use the app to tweak the lighting or heat until it’s just right.

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Indiegogo Rebrands Charity Division As Generosity.com

The crowdfunding site is relaunching Indiegogo Life, its personal fundraising platform, as a standalone site called Generosity.

Last December, crowdfunding site Indiegogo introduced a new section called Indiegogo Life, through which people could raise money for personal causes—say, medical bills for a cancer patient—without having to pay the fees that usually accompany listings on the platform. On Wednesday, Indiegogo said it was renaming the venture and devoting a separate site, Generosity.com, to its charity wing.

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“Angry Birds” Maker Rovio To Cut 213 Jobs

Months before its big Hollywood break, Angry Birds creator Rovio is laying off hundreds of employees.

With a major animated film on the horizon, Rovio, the struggling company behind the Angry Birds franchise, is laying off almost a third of its workforce. In a statement, the Finnish game developer confirmed it is cutting over 200 jobs and initiating a massive reorganization.

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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Punches Back Against The Wall Street Journal

Elizabeth Holmes defends Theranos against a scathing Wall Street Journal exposé—while speaking at a WSJ event.

When Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes agreed to be interviewed at the Wall Street Journal‘s WSJ.D Live conference here in Laguna Beach, California, she didn’t know that the event would end up taking place a week after the Journal published an in-depth exposé charging that the company’s blood-testing system had serious problems and that it was actually using commercially available devices for much of its work.

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These Are The Top Small And Medium-Size Companies For Employees

Annual survey reveals that ethics, work-life balance, and job security are top of mind for leadership at the best places to work.

Here’s a bit of optimism to brighten your day: Great Place to Work just announced that not only do employees at America’s best small and medium-size workplaces say their companies are treating people fairly and making it easier to integrate work and personal lives, but the businesses are growing. The businesses on the list are hiring new staff nearly seven times faster than U.S. companies overall.

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YouTube Inches Toward Netflix With Its New Paid Subscription Tier

YouTube Red will let viewers watch YouTube videos without ads—and eventually access exclusive content for $10 per month.

The world’s biggest online video site is going freemium. As widely speculated for some time, YouTube is launching a pay subscription service, on October 28. The premium tier, called YouTube Red, will let viewers watch videos without ads and save videos for offline, among other perks. It will cost $10 per month on the web or Android, $13 per month on iOS due to Apple’s 30% fee.

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