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How I Simplified My Life and Became a More Efficient Designer

by: Design TranslatorWhat a mess! About 5 or 6 months ago, I decided that I needed to simplify my life.Due to a lot of diverse interests and that little bit of an overachiever in me, I have a bad habit...

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What Is tokidoki? Who Is tokidoki? Why Should You Know tokidoki?

by: Scott GoodsonI recently came across a new Cultural Movement: tokidoki (small t).Not since the long lines in front of stores waiting to buy Michael Jordan sneakers have so many taste-makers lined up...

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Pondering the Sustainable Consumption Conundrum

by: Joel MakowerI'm not sure whether it was strategic or serendipitous that the World Business Council on Sustainable Development released a report on sustainable consumption just a week before a...

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'Elsewhere, U.S.A.' by Dalton Conley = FABULOUS

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Foursquare - Dodgeball on Steriods - Is Going to Be Huge

by: Karl LongFoursquare appears to be a wonderful evolution of Dodgeball, a much loved service that Google bought a couple of years ago but didn’t fund, and eventually shut down at the beginning of...

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Insights from the Natural Products Show

Last week I attended the Natural Products Expo West, the “world’s largest natural and organic products tradeshow.” Nearly 60,000 people attended the show to get a taste (figuratively and literally) of...

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Counting Down to the Era of the Quantified Self

We’ve almost reached a point where it’s possible to track and record nearly every aspect of our daily lives, from how many calories we had for breakfast, to how often we work out, to how many hours we...

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Potatoes vs. Salad

There are two trends underway in America these days, and they're about as contradictory as trends can get: marketers are chasing healthy living markets -- food, drinks, clothing, vacations -- while...

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Conflicting Messages about Relative Wellbeing of the Generations

Yesterday I was reading an article in the WSJ titled: "Aging and Broke, More Lean on Family." Much was made of research from Pew about the increase in multigenerational households because of the...

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Can Nike Fuel a Mobile Health Revolution?

The mobile health revolution, which started and took off in overseas emerging markets, is rapidly making its way to the U.S. The past few months have brought a surge of new innovations - the FitBit...

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Flâneurs and the "Gastronomy of the Eye"

On route to explaining why cyberflânerie isn't flourshing online, EvgenyMorozov rekindles the joys of real-world flânerie:read more

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The Arrival of the Digital Snob

Thanks to prominent politicians like Rick Santorum and Orrin Hatch, America has been having a contentious debate this week about what it means to be a snob in today’s society. According to Republican...

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And Now, Something Completely Different: a Word about Art

Guest Post by: Olivier BlanchardEvery day, I run into people who seem emotionally and intellectually stunted. The amount of money in their bank accounts, the kinds of cars they drive, the square...

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The Social Sickness – [Infographic]

Guest Post by: Jason MillerDo you check to see how many likes your Instagram photo has every 5 minutes? Do you remove vowels from words in your Tweets? Have you checked in at your local Starbucks more...

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Plato: Know Thy Selfie

The selfie has emerged as one of the defining modes of self-expression of the smartphone era. Sometimes, it seems like half of all photos uploaded to Facebook or Instagram each day are selfies. While...

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