How to combat lifestyle creep with a financial fast
As the modern philosopher once said: The more money you come across, the more problems you see. Lifestyle creep, where you increase your spending as your income increases, may not have been the exact...
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iMovie for everyone: This free video editor runs in your browser
A good private video editor is hard to find—especially when you want it to work across all of your devices. Yes, there are lots of decent video editors, including Microsoft’s Clipchamp tool and...
View ArticleWhat to expect at Fast Company’s 10th annual Innovation Festival: Panels
To celebrate our 10th annual Innovation Festival this Sept. 16-19 in New York City, we created a special series of main stage, one-on-one conversations featuring our list of the 10 Most Innovative...
View ArticleDefault app settings can pose a risk to user privacy
Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s...
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What Smithsonian historians are curating from the 2024 Democratic National...
Three political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are heading to Chicago and the 2024 Democratic National Convention soon to collect stuff—or as the...
View ArticleMake this simple mindset shift to reject negativity and stay focused on success
We all love the summertime. The long days. The warm evenings. The wind in the trees. The opportunity to visit faraway places. We love the summer until everything we love about it is driven from our...
View ArticleThe case for (and against) mandatory retirement
In 2021, plane manufacturer Boeing was dealing with myriad challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic was continuing to disrupt air travel and plane production, and multiple crashes of the company’s...
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How to handle compounding disasters in the face of climate change
Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting...
View Article4 simple ways to engage and inspire your people
As a gardener, I know that August (not January or February) can be the most challenging time for growing things. The heat just makes all plants look a little . . . tired. At work, it’s easy to see the...
View ArticlePolling on Harris shows that sexism is prevalent in American politics
Since President Joe Biden exited the presidential race on July 21, 2024, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris’s campaign has generated widespread...
View ArticleHow to find your power as a Black entrepreneur
For generations, the conventional wisdom for Black professionals was simple: Get a good job and keep it. It’s what most of our parents drilled into us. Mom and Dad’s wisdom didn’t account for a few...
View ArticleWhat to know about America’s first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution
Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world. The World Bank estimates that every person on the planet generates an average of 1.6 pounds (0.74 kilograms) of plastic waste daily. To...
View ArticleHow to turn your ‘wish idea’ into an actual side hustle
As a communications expert, I work with people to help them communicate their ideas in a way that motivates their audiences to take action. But in many of my conversations with clients, I hear about...
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Write better, faster with these 6 free AI tools
If you spend most of your day pecking away at a keyboard, the process of putting together words can become tedious and challenging—even if you’re an otherwise great writer. Whether you’re crafting...
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This Virginia training hub for DoD workers is attracting an unlikely...
The remnants of Danville’s past are something of a metaphor for the small city in Southern Virginia. Old brick factories dot the shores of the Dan River, several of them undergoing conversions into...
View ArticleIf every McDonald’s is supposed to be the same, why are so many so bad (or...
Halfway through the 2016 film The Founder, there’s a scene in which McDonald’s venal CEO, Ray Kroc (played by Michael Keaton), tracks down a franchisee on a golf course. Kroc has just discovered that...
View ArticleThe best and worst McDonald’s in America are both in southern Texas
Theoretically, every McDonald’s should be the same. Practically speaking, however, often they are not. Differences in franchise management across all fast-food brands can lead to unexpected...
View ArticleAI broke hiring. Can generative AI fix it?
Tech hiring has become a bot war. On one side, the ranks of unemployed workers keep growing from waves of tech layoffs. Promotion rates have slowed, creating a deficit of new jobs for recent grads....
View ArticleHuman resources needs a major overhaul
At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high level women to mentor each other to enable each leader to achieve personal and professional happiness through sisterhood. As the nonprofit...
View ArticleKamala Harris’s historic candidacy calls on all of us to scrutinize how we...
In the hours after Vice President Kamala Harris was announced as President Biden’s pick to replace him in the run to become our next President, more than 44,000 Black women spun into action and joined...
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