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Fast Company • 5th September 2018

This basic fact about social networks disadvantages minorities

On social networks and at tech companies, homophily makes life even harder for women and racial minorities than you might guess.
Fast Company • 2nd October 2015

How A Former Android Developer Created “The Martian,” A New Sci-Fi Masterpiece

With the help of 3,000 hardcore fans, Andy Weir wrote the book that is now the fall’s hottest movie.
VentureBeat • 17th March 2017

State of independence: An inside view of Minecraft developer Mojang

Mojang’s founders didn’t set out to become millionaires; they just like making games. Now they want to make Mojang the best workplace in the world.
Fast Company • 24th November 2014

What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans

The brief was simple: build a tech product for low-income American households. Except it wasn’t simple at all.
Fast Company • 24th April 2014

You’re A Developer. Do Your Kids Have Any Idea What You Actually Do?

We talked to children from ages 3 to 11 years old to find out what, exactly, they think goes on when mom or dad does “programming.”
Fast Company • 4th December 2013

Why Doctors Make Great Object-Oriented Software Designers

Building health care apps means knowing complex systems both biological and bureaucratic. Here’s how a company called Modernizing Medicine is meeting the challenge.
Fast Company • 22nd August 2013

Why Your Startup’s Culture Is Secretly Awful

Developers love to critique and improve systems and processes, so why do they never cast a critical eye on startup culture itself?
Fast Company • 11th September 2013

The Loneliness Of The Female Coder

It’s the loneliness that I remember most. More than the joy of cracking a problem, the satisfaction of getting a tricky piece of code to run, of releasing version 1.0...
Fast Company • 2nd July 2013

Five Powerful Reasons Coders Need Yoga

Yoga has an image as an activity for hippie girls, which I’ve found tends to put off male engineers. But yoga is about transforming your mindset as much as your...
Fast Company • 3rd September 2013

More Than An Office, Teenage Engineering’s Minimalist Garage Is A Tinkerer’s Paradise

A band of sound-loving, self-taught engineers set up shop in a Stockholm garage so they can move stuff around, play with new machines and park their vintage cars.
Fast Company • 16th June 2015

The Father Of “Getting Things Done”: You’re Getting Me All Wrong

Productivity guru David Allen on Zen, doing nothing, and why some people need to “stop focusing on their goals and actually get shit done.”
Fast Company • 16th December 2013

Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad

Fred Brooks wrote the software development classic The Mythical Man-Month almost 40 years ago. In this interview, Brooks explains why managers still make the same mistakes.
Fast Company • 20th March 2013

Box’s 65-Year-Old Android Engineer Gives Your Startup Some Unsentimental Advice

There are precious few people who have seen and comprehended enough of the rise of computing, and then mobile computing, to have some perspective.
Forbes • 17th March 2017

Dead Technology Commentators: Novelist Marcel Proust Takes On the Telephone

What can a dead French novelist tell us about about new technology? As it turns out, the answer is quite a lot.
Fast Company • 23rd May 2013

This Founder Trained At The Police Academy To Build An App For Cops

Nick Selby spent 20 years working in software. Then he trained as a cop.
Fast Company • 16th October 2013

No–You Don’t Need To Learn To Code

The whole world seems to be telling you that you need to learn programming. Here’s why you don’t, and what you should learn instead.
Fast Company • 18th December 2014

All I Want For Christmas Is This Nonexistent Technology

The Fast Co.Labs list of the technologies we wish existed.
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