By Christopher Zara June 14, 2023 Apple might want to think about developing some super cool time-travel apps if it expects people over 35 to adopt its futuristic headsets en masse. According to a new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company, most Americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone … Continue reading Gen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existed
By Jeff Beer June 10, 2023 When Jae Goodman stepped down as CEO of creative ad agency Observatory last summer, he didn’t know what his next chapter would be. He had spent the previous 16 years building a portfolio of award-winning work predicated on the thesis that brand entertainment could have a significant impact … Continue reading There’s going to be more brand entertainment than ever. These guys want to make it actually good
By Whitney Pastorek May 07, 2023 After decades spent following my heart instead of my bank account into a series of delightfully creative careers, I got laid off in the first month of the pandemic. It sucked. But I pulled up my freelancer bootstraps, and since 2020 I’ve served as a congressional staffer, written … Continue reading Want to hire someone creative? Don’t do any of these things
By Shalene Gupta April 27, 2023 When Frank Weishaupt became the CEO of Owl Labs in 2018, he had to adjust to a company where several employees worked remotely. Weishaupt had come from a background where everyone was expected to be in the office from 9 to 5. At the time, Owl Labs, the … Continue reading How companies stopped worrying and are giving workers the hybrid workplace they want
By Doreen Lorenzo April 22, 2023 Miriam Simun is an artist, interaction designer, and educator investigating the implications of socio-technical and environmental change at the intersection of ecology, technology, and the body. Miriam Simun Simun’s work demonstrates the importance of embodied experience—not only to better understand human behavior, but also to adapt one’s … Continue reading Want to make a creative breakthrough? Leave your desk
Sales And Marketing Want Better Collaboration, CMO Study Shows by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 18, 2023 Some 60% of marketing and sales professionals participating in a survey by the CMO Council do not co-own data and customer strategies. And 61% of marketers say fragmented technology across marketing, sales and service confines improvements in the alignment of sales and … Continue reading Sales And Marketing Want Better Collaboration, CMO Study Shows
By Adele Peters February 16, 2023 Inside the Silicon Valley factory of a startup called Sakuu, a new type of 3D printer is reinventing how batteries are made. The technique, which prints using thin layers of powder, can change what the batteries look like—imagine an e-bike battery that curves to fit the frame … Continue reading This startup can 3D print a battery into any shape you want
By Michael Grothaus February 14, 2023 Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day gift this year from Tesla workers in New York is a unionization effort. The effort is led by Autopilot analysts at the company’s Buffalo plant. The analysts make up about 800 employees who work in non-engineering roles and label data from the company’s Autopilot … Continue reading Tesla workers in New York want to unionize: ‘People are tired of being treated like robots’
By Katherine Morgan Schafler January 24, 2023 In the same way the word “bossy” served to regulate authoritative, traditionally masculine behaviors in girls and women, the word “perfectionist” has quietly risen to regulate ambition and power. As with all implicit messaging, we not only unconsciously hear it—we unconsciously internalize it. I’ll give you an … Continue reading Why you may want to embrace your perfectionism
By Sam Becker January 05, 2023 If you’ve ever felt trapped or otherwise burned by an employer’s noncompete clause, now is your chance to let the government know. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a new rule that would effectively ban employers from utilizing noncompete clauses, which, the FTC estimates, would increase wages … Continue reading Want the freedom to switch jobs without worrying about a noncompete clause? Tell the FTC
