Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation. In the summer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accepted an award at the Academy of Achievement. During his brief speech, … Continue reading Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists
An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water, from droughts to floods and beyond. Remember the drought that hit the U.S. in 2012? It was a big … Continue reading Visualizing global water risk
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As marketers, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agility. But very few brands were able to master the art. So is agile marketing a myth? A lot of brands struggle with agility in marketing: thinking on … Continue reading How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing
The Curious Magic Of Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes By David Zax, fastcompany.com A hiking tour of San Francisco, with Dropbox coder Dan Wheeler. Dan Wheeler is a programmer for the file-sharing company Dropbox. Click around a little on Dropbox.com, and odds are Wheeler had something to do with a given product or… RT @FastCompany: … Continue reading Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes
Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you … Continue reading Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life
A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Creating visualizations of huge data sets is big business.… RT @FastCompany: A … Continue reading A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer
The Future Of Coworking And Why It Will Give Your Business A Huge Edge By Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Here are the numbers that support the case for coworking—and why it’s not just for startups or freelancers anymore. Fun. Friendly. Inspiring. Collaborative. Productive. If you wouldn’t define your workplace with any or all of those ter… … Continue reading The Future Of Coworking
Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-commerce mobile app and website that launches today, is attempting to take … Continue reading Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders
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