Facebook is an important communication tool to me. Most of my fellow students don’t use iMessage or Twitter DMs, so we talk on Facebook. However, I seem not to be able to just check my messages on Facebook. Instead, I wind up scrolling through the News Feed for a couple of minutes each time I visit…

Shutterstock.com Tough DUI laws can only go so far if we don't give people—especially young people—reasonable alternatives in the first place. PHOENIX—The way my life is currently organized, the odds that I will ever commit the crime of driving while under the influence of alcohol are about as close…

May 22, 2014 Names One thing I’ve always had a hard time with is remembering people’s names. It kills me. To me, having forgotten someone’s name is far more embarrassing than them having forgotten mine. Forgetting someone’s name gives them the impression that you don’t think they’re important,…

(Illustration by Will Scobie) The term “innovation” is now used so widely andso vaguely that it has come to mean almost anything,or almost nothing at all. Long before itbecame a buzzword, though, innovation playedan essential role in philanthropy . The field hasa rich history of private funders…

At first blush, not much has changed about how men shave since the electric razor. But one company is shaking things up: A web-based startup called Harry’s has branded itself as a simple, superior and more affordable solution for shaving — and is vying against giants like Gillette and Schick for a…

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A career-spanning Q&A with Louis C.K. I interviewed Louis C.K. at his apartment in Manhattan in November, 2011, for a Rolling Stone profile (you can read that story in full here ). This is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversation. Jonah Weiner: You don’t want me to say where you live.…

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TippingPoint.org Daniel Lurie is founder and CEO of Tipping Point Community in San Francisco. A roof over your head each night should be a basic right, but it isn’t. Neither is the right to an education, a job or a doctor’s visit, though that last one is changing. Without a place to live, it’s…

Apr 20 , 2014 Share Posted by Steven Johnson This fall author and media theorist Steven Johnson will debut a new series on PBS in association with the BBC called “ How We Got to Now .” The series has been produced by Jane Root’s award-winning company, Nutopia , and is funded by the CPB/PBS Challenge…

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Designing Getaround’s Missing Revenue Estimator A better tool to convince owners to list From GetAround Website Brenden Mulligan is a co-founder and designer at Cluster , a web and mobile app which enables users to create private social networks around interests and experiences. Brenden previously…

This article is #2 in an ongoing series on Platform Thinking . What does the traditional world of manufacturing have in common with the way networked platforms work? How can a basic understanding of factory design help us change the way we think about designing internet platforms, marketplaces, and…

Michigan Municipal League "Common sense has been almost completely lost in my profession," says the architect. It’s getting hard to keep track of all the urbanisms. In the 1990s there was of course the “new urbanism,” anti-sprawl, neo-traditional town planning formally embraced in the Congress for…

Donaldson's profile image on Twitter Bryan Donaldson lived in central Illinois nearly his entire life. He was born in Michigan but moved to a tiny town north of Peoria when he was just 4 years old. Now 40, he and his wife own a house in East Peoria with a big backyard, where their preschool-age…

I thought this was interesting. Here is Sam Walton, in his own words, detailing the Wal-Mart Strategy from the earliest days. What was novel at the time is now a somewhat common way for businesses to expand. It’s also used in the military as part of an “ink spot” strategy. But before we get to that,…

UPDATE: See a newer, updated version of this post with a brand-new infographic . Every so often when I’m tweeting or emailing, I’ll think: Should I really be writing so much? I tend to get carried away. And for the times that I do, it sure would be nice to know if all this extra typing is hurting or…

Elle Luna is an artist and designer who lives and works in San Francisco. She worked with teams to design and build Mailbox , redesign Uber ’s iPhone app, and scale the storytelling platform Medium . Before startups, Elle spent five years at IDEO where she worked across a variety of industries to…

11:06:53 MS. DIANE REHM Thanks for joining us. I'm Diane Rehm. In a provocative new book, economist Jeremy Rifkin argues we're seeing the slow but inevitable demise of capitalism. Technological advances are reducing the cost of many products and services to the point where they're almost free. In…

I was still 10 minutes from work when I realized it: I hadn’t even stepped foot in the office yet and I was already stressed out. I was already anxiously making a list of all the things I had to get done before noon, already worrying about how the day would go. And this is the case on a lot of…

Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, photograph by Sam Comen Imagine if you could build a city that is shared. Parc Monceau in Paris, France, photograph by Loïc Lagarde Where people become micro-entrepreneurs, Airbnb Host Caitlin, the first host I ever stayed with, in Denver, in August 2008 and local mom and…

Connections Browse Directory » People Organizations City of Philadelphia Tags Advertisement The City of Philadelphia is rethinking procurement with a new site for tech contracts. Pictured: a booth from a 1967 city fair. (Photo via PhillyHistory.org) Calling all local tech companies and freelance…

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People sit along Fayetteville Street during Hillside High School's homecoming parade. Hillside has a predominantly African-American student population and serves many low-income communities in East Durham. Hillside once had graduation rates as low as 50 percent but has improved to 83 percent. Justin…

[Ed. Note— The opinions expressed in this article reflect the opinions of the writer and the writer only. This article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Complex Media. ] Peace, King: I remember when I first met you. It was outside of the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn after a Phife Dawg…

[Hotel Ruins: Trekandshoot via Shutterstock] In January, when Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky learned that Marriott International, one of the largest hotel groups in the world, planned to add 30,000 rooms to its property portfolio in the coming year, he defiantly boasted , "We will add that in the next 2…

“Accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.” William Kent Krueger is a favorite author of mine. In 2013, I read his book Ordinary Grace. Here’s what the protagonist says at the end of the novel: “I’m a teacher of history…and what I know from my studies and…

VSCO just announced a new $100,000 scholarship fund to help creatives get their projects off the ground. Art can be a difficult world to break into . It's expensive, and it doesn't necessarily pay the bills. Enter the VSCO Artist Initiative , which was created to "honor art and artist by…

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Communities Feb 19 , 2014 Share Posted by Carol Coletta Photo credit: Knight Foundation on Flickr . “Big Civic” is disappearing. The days when CEO roundtables, mayors for life or a few big foundations were the primary makers in our cities have passed. Now, getting more people into city-building is…