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Makey Makey Will Make You Love The "Internet Of Things" | Fast Company | Business + Inn... - 0 views

  • Makey Makey is a little circuit board that comes with a set of alligator clips. You can attach them to anything even mildly conductive (a body part, a glass of water, alphabet noodles, paper clips, Play-Doh, or fruit for example) and use that thing to control your computer as though you were hitting the keyboard or moving the mouse. The device plays well with the Arduino in case you want to attach it to simple sensors.
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Work Smart | Fast Company - 6 views

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    Great series of articles to help increase your productivity at work
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Behind The Scenes At Karlie Kloss's New Coding Camp For Girls | Fast Company | Business... - 0 views

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    " ANJALI MULLANY 03.30.16 8:20 AM Two years ago, model Karlie Kloss enrolled in Flatiron School's two-week pre-college coding course and caught the programming bug. She started taking regular private coding classes with Flatiron dean and cofounder Avi Flombaum (who she already knew socially) and enjoyed the experience so much that she decided to underwrite 21 Kode with Karlie scholarships so other young women could take the same two-week pre-college coding course at Flatiron that had kicked off her own programming education. This summer, Kloss is taking it up a notch by launching her own Kode with Klossy coding camps for young women aged 13-18 in Los Angeles, New York, and her hometown of St. Louis, using Flatiron's Learn.co curriculum and learning platform. Unlike last summer's Kode with Karlie program, this year's 80 scholarship recipients will participate in their own program, separate from other Flatiron School students. By the end of the camp, which is being taught by independent instructors, students will have learned the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails and built their own web app. Kloss is not underwriting this latest round of scholarships herself but instead, in partnership with Flatiron School and CSNYC, has pulled together a number of partner brands as fiscal sponsors for the program."
John Evans

The 25 Best Productivity Apps For 2018 - 2 views

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    "Sometimes the best way to escape from a productive rut is to switch up your tools. Whether it's a simple word processor, a smarter to-do list, or a more efficient way to transcribe interviews, downloading some new apps can help manage your time and produce better work. Here are some of the best productivity apps for phones, tablets, and computers that launched in the last year or got a substantial upgrade."
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How Radical Empathy Can Improve Employee Performance and Morale - 0 views

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    ""I'm going to practice radical empathy now," proclaimed Toshi, a 40-something male executive, to a small group at workshop offered by frog in partnership with Fast Company at SXSW this week.  "Hi, my name is Maddison and I'm a teenage girl," he says. From there he describes an experience of belonging that Maddison (a young professional woman sitting across from him) had felt at summer camp. The most compelling part of his narrative was not that he was retelling the story from her perspective, but the fact that she was sitting facing him, their knees touching while she smiled and nodded. Once he was done, it was her turn to do the same for him as a way to introduce each other to the others in the group. Maddison and Toshi had never met before this morning, but their connection even during those few minutes was undeniable. Ditto for the other two people in the group."
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12 incredibly useful Gmail settings you didn't know you needed - 3 views

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    "Make Gmail more effective than ever with these out-of-the-way advanced settings and adjustments."
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How to download your Twitter data and delete your account - 1 views

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    "And whether you're dead set on quitting Twitter and never coming back, or you're waiting to see how the near-future shakes out, here's how to grab an archive of your tweets, photos, direct messages, and other activity-and then delete your account once you're ready. That way you can remember the way things were, no matter what lies ahead."
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Human skills needed for 2023 - 1 views

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    "15Five's VP of People and Culture maintains that these skills can ground us and allow us to redirect our energy toward helping colleagues and our organization during challenging periods."
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MakerNurse Is Tapping Grassroots Innovation To Improve Patient Care | Fast Company | Bu... - 1 views

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    "Anna Young helps nurses get creative when treating their patients. In the last year, she's set up two "maker-spaces" inside hospitals and she's continued to document nurse-made fixes and workarounds that make patients' lives a little more bearable. Examples include glow-in-the-dark pill bottles, bed-shower overlays, and a TV remote control for patients with tremors in their fingers. Since Young cofounded MakerNurse in 2013, she's collected more than 50 device ideas from around the country, publishing how-to guides for each online so that others can iterate on the concepts. The first maker-space is up and running at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas and another is opening soon at South Shore Hospital, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Each has an array of pliers, sewing needles, 3-D printers, laser cutters, and medical prototyping equipment like "vital signs" construction sets and biocompatible adhesives. In all, about 1,000 nurses have worked with MakerNurse so far. And, through a related organization, Maker Health, Young now wants to involve other frontline workers, and even patients themselves."
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Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App | Fast Company - 7 views

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    "Khan Academy, the wildly popular Youtube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store. The enhanced version of Khan Academy will include time-syncing between devices--no Internet connection required, an interactive transcript of the lectures for easy searching, and a handy scrubber for moving between parts of the lectures. Perhaps more importantly, now that more schools have begun adopting Khan's lectures for their own classrooms, the free iPad app could possibly replace or supplement textbooks, saving cash-strapped schools and students a lot of money."
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Fast Talk: How This 17-Year-Old's Breakup Inspired His Startup | Fast Company - 3 views

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    Founder of They Don't Teach You This in School http://theydontteachyouthisinschool.com/
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