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Screenwriting duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had the idea for Superbad way before they had the ability to actually make a movie. The two Canadian teens didn’t let go of the idea and many years later it ended up being a huge hit.    Read about their newest project, This Is the End, and how they keep their best ideas alive here. [Image courtesy of Sony Pictures]

Screenwriting duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had the idea for Superbad way before they had the ability to actually make a movie. The two Canadian teens didn’t let go of the idea and many years later it ended up being a huge hit.   

Read about their newest project, This Is the End, and how they keep their best ideas alive here.

[Image courtesy of Sony Pictures]

Meet Joel Arabaje, Fast Company’s Online Photo Editor and the King of Selfies. Joel originally wanted to be a veterinarian. For a while he was a Rat Laboratory Technician at Queens College, where he tended to the needs of the tiny rodents. In high school, he was a pet groomer. These days, he’s a photographer, illustrator, and designer. For his latest project, Joel is taking a selfie every day for a year, and posting each photo to Instagram.  Here, the 3 best things Joel found on the Internet this week.

Meet Joel Arabaje, Fast Company’s Online Photo Editor and the King of Selfies. Joel originally wanted to be a veterinarian. For a while he was a Rat Laboratory Technician at Queens College, where he tended to the needs of the tiny rodents. In high school, he was a pet groomer. These days, he’s a photographer, illustrator, and designer. For his latest project, Joel is taking a selfie every day for a year, and posting each photo to Instagram. 

Here, the 3 best things Joel found on the Internet this week.

A new film called Girl Rising shows how education affects nine girls from nine countries—with some help from famous voices like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway. Investing in girls is said to have the best returns, dollar for dollar, of anything we can do in low-income locations. Every extra year of schooling for girls leads to: Increased incomes by 10% to 25%. A rise in national wealth. Lower rates of child mortality and HIV/AIDS. Better educated future generations.  “We can overcome many challenges that we’re trying to address in global development when girls are safe, educated, healthy, and empowered,” says Girl Rising executive producer Holly Gordon. ”It’s the best investment you can make if you’re trying to make long-term strategic change in global development,”  Read more here: The enormous opportunity in educating and empowering girls

A new film called Girl Rising shows how education affects nine girls from nine countries—with some help from famous voices like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway.

Investing in girls is said to have the best returns, dollar for dollar, of anything we can do in low-income locations.

Every extra year of schooling for girls leads to:

  • Increased incomes by 10% to 25%.
  • A rise in national wealth.
  • Lower rates of child mortality and HIV/AIDS.
  • Better educated future generations. 

“We can overcome many challenges that we’re trying to address in global development when girls are safe, educated, healthy, and empowered,” says Girl Rising executive producer Holly Gordon. ”It’s the best investment you can make if you’re trying to make long-term strategic change in global development,” 

Read more here: The enormous opportunity in educating and empowering girls

Daily Fast Feed Roundup Good morning and happy Friday! Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know today:  In a pro-consumer attempt to foster innovation, European regulators are banning roaming fees.  Now you can use Microsoft Office on your iPhone (if you suscribe to Office 365 and you have access to their cloud). Pandora is being sued by the songwriters’ rights association, BMI, after it purchased a small radio station in an attempt to pay lower royalty rates. Google is winning big in mobile advertising. This year the search engine giant is expected to take home more than half the mobile ad revenues generated worldwide. Seasoned directors and movie industry kings Steven Spielberg and George Lucas warn film students that the tech industry will cause a “massive implosion” of Hollywood.  President Obama has approved giving U.S. military aid to Syrian rebels after it was confirmed that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. And more news from our NSA secret surveillance tracker: U.S. government agencies routinely swap data with civilian firms. Have a great day! —M. Cecelia Bittner and Jessica Hullinger [Photo via digg.tumblr.com]

Daily Fast Feed Roundup

Good morning and happy Friday! Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know today: 

  • Pandora is being sued by the songwriters’ rights association, BMI, after it purchased a small radio station in an attempt to pay lower royalty rates.

Have a great day! —M. Cecelia Bittner and Jessica Hullinger

[Photo via digg.tumblr.com]

Blogger David Cain explains the hidden link between breakfast and productivity: “The best approach seems to be to give ample deliberation to the decisions that concern major aspects of life, such as career, family, relationships, high-level goals and creative pursuits, and don’t let small ones hang you up. The big ones determine what you actually do with your life—and it is their doing that contributes most to happiness, so it’s worth pruning out as many of the distracting minor decisions as possible so that you don’t cease the important doing because you’re caught up in unimportant thinking.”

Blogger David Cain explains the hidden link between breakfast and productivity:

“The best approach seems to be to give ample deliberation to the decisions that concern major aspects of life, such as career, family, relationships, high-level goals and creative pursuits, and don’t let small ones hang you up. The big ones determine what you actually do with your life—and it is their doing that contributes most to happiness, so it’s worth pruning out as many of the distracting minor decisions as possible so that you don’t cease the important doing because you’re caught up in unimportant thinking.”

What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever made (or observed) in a job interview?

The other day we wrote about 6 ways to secretly sabotage your job interview, and then we asked Facebook fans about the biggest interview mistakes they’ve ever seen. Here’s what they had to say: 
  • “Not having a convincing answer to what my strengths were.” -Prashanth Challapalli
  • “When the interviewee doesn’t have a career path or salary expectation (expressing their own worth) is a turn off.” - Garrett Fookes
  • “Not sending a thank you note after the interview…rookie mistake!” - The Forum: Stories That Create
  • “At the end when they say “do you have any questions” I said no. This one is a biggie.” - Kathleen Stetka
  • “Sell myself short.” - Milly Darby

Here, a few more. What’s the biggest interview mistake you’ve ever seen?