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The five worst charities in the United States.
The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Tampa Bay Times argue that nearly 1 billion dollars of charity money has been misspent by organizations that spend more money on fundraising than actually aid.
Here are the five worst offenders:
1. Kids Wish Network
2. Cancer Fund of America
3. Children’s Wish Foundation International
4. American Breast Cancer Foundation
5.The Firefighters Charitable Foundation
Why do we keep responding to the beep and buzz of our phones? Because we’re addicted to success explains Harvard Business School prof Leslie Perlow.
Brand strategist David Brier designed 9 fake ads that push J.C. Penney to capitalize on one CEO’s PR blunder (and get back on top).
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A reflection off of our neighbor, the Freedom Tower.
The picture was taking in our biggest conference room (often fondly referred to as Jail).
Classic building & the new Freedom Tower. #contrast #worldtradecenter #nyc #freedomtower view from @fastcompany #fastcompany (at 7 World Trade Center)
You can build a shiny modern metropolis out of nothing, but how do you create the bustle of a city?
Photographer Matthias Heiderich captures the strange emptiness of Dubai in his series UAE.
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Meet our Co.Labs intern Lily Newman. A self professed lover of lunch, a science/tech journalist, and a part-time magical unicorn.
An apprehensive #unicorn #intern @fastcompany (at 7 World Trade Center)
“I love my devices and services, and I love being connected to the global hive mind. I am neither a Luddite nor a hermit, but I am more aware of the price we pay: lack of depth, reduced accuracy, lower quality, impatience, selfishness, and mental exhaustion, to name but a few. In choosing to digitally enhance, hyperconnect, and constantly share our lives, we risk not living them…”
Baratunde Thurston
From his piece #Unplug: Baratunde Thurston left the internet for 25 days, and you should too.
Here’s more about #unplugging.
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Have a great week! —M. Cecelia Bittner and Jessica Hullinger
“There were movies, there were food trucks, there were friends, there was mulled wine. There was brief consideration of a mulled-wine food truck. Above all, there was an expansion of sensations and ideas.”
Google’s Project Loon (say ‘loon balloon’ five times fast) will use solar-powered giant devices hovering 12 miles above the ground to beam Internet down to places where it’s not possible to lay cable.
“Perhaps because I wasn’t always getting updates on events happening in faraway places, I focused on the world around me, especially nearby Vanderbilt Avenue, which turns out to be quite a place, especially for food. Late one night, I entered a restaurant called Cornelius, lured by large-print signs in the window advertising meat. Whiskey. Oysters. I could not resist.”
And the Best Tumblr Of The Week is…”Jony Ive Redesigns Things“
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Have a great week! —M. Cecelia Bittner and Jessica Hullinger
