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February 18, 2015
6 Auto Design Visionaries Who Could Make Apple's Titan Car A Reality
Think Apple doesn't have the know-how to design cars? Think again.
Steve Jobs always wanted to make an iCar, at least according to Apple board member Mickey Drexler. Now, years after Jobs's death, Apple's finally setting out to do it, reports the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper claims that Apple currently has up to 1,000 people working on Titan, a project to build a Tesla-like electric vehicle.
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Living Near Walmart Is Why You're Fat
America's love affair with big box stores matches up with its expanding waistlines.
Living near a Walmart might be less convenient than you think. Why? Because the ubiquitous big box stores might be making America fat.
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How Impulsiveness Can Boost Your Creativity
The key may lie in a belief that slightly negative traits have silver linings.
Everyone who's ever prepared for a job interview knows how to turn a personal weakness into a character strength. The flipside of being a little stubborn might be extra persistence. A bit of impatience, properly directed, fuels a sense of urgency. Shyness can be a drawback, but modesty is a virtue. And let's be honest: what some people would call a pessimistic mindset could easily be seen as a practical one.
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Learning To Pitch Yourself, Post-Prison
We shadow Defy Ventures for a day to see what we can learn from a group of entrepreneurial ex-cons pitching to a panel of VCs.
It's 3:07 p.m. on a balmy Thursday in January and about 120 people are shuffling into in a windowless meeting room in the basement of Draper University, a residential school for early stage entrepreneurs in downtown San Mateo, California. Audience members sitting down, mostly Draper students, are chatting and texting frantically while six non-students stand against the back wall, each with varying degrees of stress showing on their faces.
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February 17, 2015
Here's Who Would Win At This Year's Oscars If Twitter, Not The Academy, Voted
The People's Oscars has charted your tweeted opinions on the Academy Awards. You might want to get that corduroy tux pressed, Wes.
On Sunday, February 22, we'll have a shiny new batch of Oscar winners—along with a torrent of haters shouting their unsolicited opinions all over social media.
Your Employer's Plans To Make You Healthier Don't Work--Because Your Job Is Killing You
Your company probably spends a lot on a "corporate wellness program," but its efforts are probably wasted.
If you work at a large or even medium-sized company, it's likely you have access to some kind of "wellness program." Over the last decade, many organizations have begun to monitor and intervene in their employees' health and well-being, believing they can raise productivity, cut health care costs, and perhaps make themselves more attractive as employers. Rand Corporation says 85% of companies with more than 1,000 people have at least one wellness initiative.
Why Samsung Design Stinks
Blame Steve Jobs Syndrome.
Kevin Lee calls it "Steve Jobs Syndrome." As the former head of product strategy and user experience design at Samsung Design America, Lee watched as the $100 billion Korean tech giant wrote check after check to countless Western design firms to develop future products for the Korean company. The designers would dig in their heels, refusing to budge on their grand idea or see how it might fit into Samsung's vast production line. And Samsung management would either discard the idea entirely, or water it down so much that the product became another meaningless SKU in the hundreds of products Samsung sells today.
Warby Parker Sees the Future of Retail
For building the first great made-on-the-Internet brand.
"We're down to the wire here!" a young woman in flowing floral slacks and a crop top barks in the direction of a sound guy, her voice rising urgently. "The speakers aren't working."
The Gig Economy Won't Last Because It's Being Sued To Death
If Uber, Lyft, and others don't stop relying on contract workers, business could crumble. Is it time for a new definition of employee?
When Vilma and Greta Zenelaj came across a Craigslist job ad that promised they could make as much as $22 an hour and get paid fast, it seemed like a good deal. The Albanian sisters had moved to Santa Monica to get a foothold in the film industry, and though they had produced a few independent features, they had run out of savings before they could also make a living. Now they were desperate to pay their bills.
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