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Here, MailChimp takes a page from the playbook of some other tech world notables. Google’s Sergey Brin, for example, has been known to show up to job interviews wearing a cow costume. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, a legendary prankster, once called the Vatican posing as Henry Kissinger and tried to convince a friend that there was a state in Mexico called Jalapeno by creating doctored maps using digital tools unheard of at the time. Wozniak has been quoted as saying that the kind of humor involved in pranking goes to the creativity and inventiveness that’s indispensable for a company like Apple. And, incidentally, it was MailChimp’s head of user experience, Aarron Walter, who was behind the impromptu tagline. … [Read more...] about Creative Cultures: MailChimp Grants Employees “Permission To Be Creative”

Bathing CultureBiodegradable soap ($35) in groovy, refillable glass bottles put Bathing Culture on our radar. Their signature Cathedral Grove fragrance is woody, fresh, and addictive enough to buy a full one gallon refill. Also worth noting: their collection of natural bathing accessories, like ethically harvested Sea Sponges ($20) and volcanic rock pumice stones ($8) gathered from Califorian’s Mt. Shasta. … [Read more...] about Clean up your beauty routine with these 6 low-waste brands

Although space tourism gets a lot of media attention, a robust human space economy will be built on doing things in space that can’t be done practically on Earth but that benefit life on Earth. One of the earliest tests of manufacturing in space, for instance, involves a California company called Made in Space making a kind of optical fiber, in a self-contained module on the space station, that can be made in microgravity with a purity that’s not possible on Earth. The space-made fiber could increase the speed of data transmission back on Earth by many times—and it’s exactly the kind of lightweight, high-value product that could make sense to manufacture in orbit and then transport back to Earth. … [Read more...] about Why now is the most exciting time in space in 50 years