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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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It was the middle of the middle class,” he says. At Brookwood, his art teachers regularly modified the curriculum to make classes more challenging for him. It’s the clothes we wear, the phones we talk on, the lights we see with and the cars we drive. As it turns out, his childhood was fairly simple. “It

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She even signed up for a fear-of-flying seminar to help calm her nerves, but she missed so many classes because of her schedule and constant traveling that her instructor told her, “I don’t know if I should be mad at you or proud of you, but you’re never here because you’re always on a plane.” Practicality is kind of her thing.

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Stop Saying "When I Was Your Age"

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Also, nothing makes you look worse than clothes that are too tight, too loose or too worn, so get them altered or get rid of them if needed. There’s nothing quite as valuable to co-workers and company brass than the relationships you have formed over the years with vendors, customers, competitors, etc. Keeping up on current events.

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Eco Friendly Entertainment Options for Your Next Corporate Party

Eco-Office Gals

Have an organic cooking class. You can even serve the prepared meals afterwards on cloth tablecloths and “green” tableware rather than plastic. One of the most effective ways to educate someone is to provide them with information in the form of giveaways. Host a raffle.

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Glitter is plastic in disguise, plus 4 more reasons to skip the shiny stuff

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He formed Meadowbrook Inventions , which is still one of the main global suppliers of glitter. Most people understand that microplastics, such as fibers from clothes or microbeads in facial scrubs, are dangerous to sea life. Here are five reasons to rethink your glitter habit. 1: Glitter = plastic. mm to a truly tiny 0.05

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The Future Of Less Work with Nirit Cohen

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They want food, they want shelter, they need clothing. The cost of food, the cost of shelter, the cost of clothing. That’s a form of work. When I was in business classes in my first couple years of college, I thought, all you guys are doing is teaching me to go to work for IBM. Will you ever stop writing?