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Helmed by a former North Face executive and a pair of Stanford professors, LifeLabs has developed warming and cooling garments that can help reduce energy use indoors.

You don’t need a water cooler to have ‘water cooler conversations.’

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Last October, remote networking company Donut launched Watercooler, an extension for Slack that organizes introductions among teammates and offers hundreds of fun conversation topics to stimulate non-work-related communication. It’s been used by companies including Netflix, the New York Times, and product design platform InVision. Gather, a browser-based app used by Y Combinator and Yelp, helps simulate the real-world meeting experience. Читать дальше...

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Unless you’re a solo entrepreneur, you have to be able to rely on your colleagues if you’re going to be successful. You need good feedback from others. You need to use the results of other people’s work in your projects. Your own reputation and advancement in an organization will depend a lot on what other people say about you.

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More than two dozen tech founders have contributed to Eight Sleep’s more than $150 million in funding, because they love its bed that offers temperature control, sleep data, and gamification.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is set to testify before lawmakers tomorrow.

Droughts and heat waves across the West damaged this year’s crop, but the larger effects will be felt in the future, because so many of the trees planted this year died.

The head of People at CruxOCM says we may think we’re showing an employee they’re valued by giving them a pay raise, when they may value the time spent with a coach and mentor learning new things instead.

Creativity has a business ROI. There is not a soft fuzzy dotted line between creativity and business value. There is a solid connection. 

It’s made of seaweed (tasteless, don’t worry)—and can also work for things like tea bags, noodles, or detergent.

These four strategies will set you up for success.

It’s an exciting time for new hires. To contend with the Great Resignation, businesses are upping their incentives for employees, offering signing bonuses, increasing compensation, and reducing requirements for new applicants. Some companies are even offering tuition assistance for hourly workers.

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The lead accessibility designer at Mobiquity notes that accessibility is about more than just legal consequences. “What may not seem like a big deal to you could make or break another individual’s experience with your brand.”

If not for subpar battery life, this would be one of the best laptops on the market—repairable or otherwise.