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September 23, 2014
8 Practical Steps To Getting Over Your Impostor Syndrome
If you feel like a fraud, you're not alone. Follow these eight steps to reverse the cycle of self-doubt.
Impostor syndrome is much more common than you'd think--over 70% of people have experienced it at one time or other in their lives.
September 22, 2014
Today in Tabs: Monkey Business
Tabs sees bad journalists.
My bologna has a first name, it's-oh shoot. Um. This is embarrassing. We've met, like, 3 times. Linda introduced us at the Xmas party. Paul?
The 5 Best Things About The New High Line
Exclusive photos: The High Line's much-anticipated final phase is open. Bring on the tourists.
Since its initial opening in 2009, New York City's High Line has attracted millions of visitors a year--4.8 million in 2013 alone. And the thing wasn't even finished yet.
How Photographers Make People Fall In Love With Buildings
A new exhibition at the Barbican explores the intimate relationship between photographers and architects.
Most of us recognize by sight buildings that we will never visit. The non-jetsetters among us form judgments based on photography more than than the experience of walking through a building. (Especially in the modern world of blog-side architecture criticism--your very own favorite design site included.) Which gives architectural photographers extraordinary power over how we perceive much of the built environment.
This Bicycle Saddle Doubles As A Lock
With Seatylock, cyclists won't have to lug heavy bike locks around, can't forget them at home, and won't get their seats stolen.
Designing a perfect bike lock is an ongoing challenge: The toughest of locks are usually heavy and bulky, a pain to transport, and easily forgotten at home. And many locks, while securing the frame, leave individual bike parts, like the seat or the front wheel, vulnerable to thieves.
These Clocks Keep Time With Saxophones, Pendulums, And Fans
Studio Formafantasma takes a poetic approach to timekeeping in this series of strange, sculptural clocks.
We've all gotten used to tracking time with digital devices. So it's easy to forget that centuries of timekeeping devices relied on neither mechanics nor electronics. Think about sundials, hourglasses, and water clocks.
You Can Now Say "No, Thanks" To Google+
Signing up for Google+ is no longer a requirement for new Gmail users.
In what might be another nail in the coffin for Google+, or at least a sign Google is letting up on its heavy-handed marketing of the social platform, new users will no longer be required to sign up for Google+ when creating a Gmail account.
A Sign Of The Times? An Oil Baron's Heirs Vow To Divest From Fossil Fuels
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is the latest to join the growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
Over the last few years, churches, college endowments, pension funds, city governments, and others have pledged to sell a total of $50 billion in investments in coal, oil, and gas companies. Now the growing fossil fuel divestment movement has won its most symbolic victory yet: The heirs to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil fortune committed to selling all of the fossil fuels holdings made by their $860 million charitable foundation.
Reporter Quits Her Job On Live TV To Focus On Legalizing Pot In Alaska
"F*ck It. I quit."
We've seen some notable entries in the "How to Quit Your Job" category in recent times: There's been interpretive dancing, marching bands, and even a Super Bowl commercial. But somehow none of the above can touch KTVA reporter Charlo Greene's epic mic drop.
FastCo Studios Launches With 4 New Video Series
Point your browsers toward: Power Couples, The 29th Floor, Creative Director For A Day, and Brand Evolution.
Here at Fast Company we not only cover innovation, we strive to be innovative ourselves.
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