Fast Company – Page 2 – Insight Sciences

Bio mimicry and resilient design

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead
BY ERIN LEITCH, fastcoexist.com

The natural world has found ways to work and live in harmony for a long time. If we want to also survive and create sustainability systems, biomimicry may be the key.

The operating conditions of life are literally symphonic: They are a…

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Biomimicry (rs450fisher.wordpress.com)
Design Inspiration From Nature (rs450jackson.wordpress.com)
Design Inspiration from Nature (ajjackson1017.wordpress.com)
Nature of Economics: Biomimicry (rs450seo.wordpress.com)
Buildings built by bacteria (boingboing.net)
Don’t miss the first Biomimicry Global Conference (treehugger.com)

Apple’s trademarked stores

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management

Take A World Tour Of Apple’s Newly Trademarked Stores
By Addy Dugdale, fastcompany.com

First it won ownership of a rountangle—that’s a rectangle with rounded corners—and now Apple has patented its store design. You know, lots of giant glass, pale wood, and nerds in royal-blue tees.

Apple has won itself a trademark for its retai…

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Apple’s New TV Commercial (technoteamblog.wordpress.com)
Apple adds around a million new store accounts (most with credit cards) every two days (sexymacman.wordpress.com)
Apple to create virtual currency “iMoney” on 6/6/2013 (666) (seeker401.wordpress.com)
Apple’s new ad showcases apps that change lives: Smart prosthetics, democratized health care and more (thenextweb.com)

Re-imagining the words of work

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Why Tweaking Your Career Vocabulary Can Radically Improve Your Life
By Amber Rae, fastcompany.com

Reimagining the words we use to define work—and ourselves—is a powerful exercise.

Words are powerful. The language we use influences how we think, feel, act, and interact with the world. That’s why I propose a new kind of dictionary. O…

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[Info-graphic] How to lead a creative life via FastCompany (thedigitalglaze.wordpress.com)
“a Brand Is a C… (jasonwesterman.wordpress.com)
Jenna Lyons | Fast Company (alexandragamez.wordpress.com)

The year of car sharing

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Is This The Year We Ditch Our Cars And Start Sharing?
Markus Barnikel, fastcoexist.com

The CEO of Carpooling.com discusses what’s going to make 2013 a huge year for ridesharing.2012 marked a big year for the sharing economy with new launches, explosive growth rates, and millions spent in venture capital funding. In 2013, the growth …

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High-Fructose Corn Syrup Is Bad For Everything: It Might Be Killing The Bees | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation (fastcoexist.com)
Find A Free Desk In Someone’s Office, And Feel More Creative | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation (fastcoexist.com)
Online VC Firm FundersClub Raises $1.1 Mln in Fund to Aid Startups (pehub.com)
Big thumbs-up for car-sharing as online hitch-hiking takes off (thescottishsun.co.uk)

Hypnotic time lapse videos

February 4, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

An L.A. artist attempts to capture the passage of time within a single video frame—no drugs needed.

Xárene Eskandar wants you to feel awe.

The Los Angeles media artist, whose past work ranges from tree pods to a Google marriage proposal,…

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Fast Company Is Seeking A Digital Project Manager (fastcompany.com)
The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (fastcodesign.com)
Social Media for Artists by @InnovateToday (integratedalliances.com)

17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley
By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com

David Kelley is well-known for his astute application of design thinking to many of life’s intractable problems. Less known is that he’s also a veritable Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the importance of not being a…

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David Kelley on creative confidence (agkowalczyk.wordpress.com)
David Kelley of IDEO talks “design thinking” on 60 Minutes (ted.com)
To Create The Future Of Brand Identity, IDEO Looks Inward (fastcodesign.com)
What Is Design Thinking? (blogs.sap.com)

Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management

Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking
By Tyler Gray, fastcompany.com

Schematic Labs cofounder and CEO and former imeem CMO Steve Jang says he’s making it easier to share yourself through music (and maybe hook up with your rock ‘n’ roll crush).

You’re already soundtracking your life, whether or not you use…

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6 Ways Twitter #Music Is Already Changing The Way We Listen (fastcompany.com)

DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

December 15, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte…

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“How Military-Style Drones are Changing Adventure Filmmaking” by Joe Spring, Outside Magazine (jakechristieblog.wordpress.com)
Brace Yourselves, Drone Journalism Is Coming (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Life Saving Drones (enhancedtech.wordpress.com)

Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking

December 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities
Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com

How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the question posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent article published in Fast Company.

Cohen looked at cities across North America and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on characteristics ranging…

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This Fact About Income Inequality Will Blow Your Mind (huffingtonpost.com)
How to Pitch Your Tech Product/Client to FastCompany (mediabistro.com)
Fast Company Releases its top 50 (mcsaatchimobile.com)
Medical Marijuana Inc.’s Dixie Elixirs and Edibles Brand featured on Fast Company (prnewswire.com)
Fast Company Announces 2013 Ranking of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies (virtual-strategy.com)

Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody

December 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com

Lessons:

“Sometimes people are offended by the name, which is obviously never our intention. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please everyone, and I’m ok with that. Not everybody loves what we do—and that’s probably for …

Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody

What’s Trending With…Yael Cohen? The F%#@ Cancer Founder on Starting a Movement (youngentrepreneur.com)
12 PR Don’ts for Online Entrepreneurs (business2community.com)
13 Questions to Ask Your First Startup Hires (businessinsider.com)

Management consultants must become anthropologists to get real data

November 29, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Why Management Consultants Need To Make Apps, Take “Rep Rides,” And Study High-Selling Hair Farmers
By David Zax, fastcompany.com

To create real value, Bluewolf consultants shadow their clients’ representatives in the field. The results often involve mobile apps streamlining their work.

The management consulting industry has been much maligned in recent years. The…

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Why Big Data Wants Credit History And Bill Payment Info | Fast Company (fastcompany.com)
Bluewolf is leader of the pack for cloud CRM solutions (zdnet.com)
On Legitimacy, Place and the Anthropology of the Internet (ethnographymatters.net)
Noble Savages: Napoleon Chagnon’s Fierce Book (scienceblogs.com)
Anthropologists in the Media (aaanet.org)
You: Why the Best Designers are also Facilitators | UX Magazine | One cultural anthropologist who endorse in Service Design (serve4impact.com)

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