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Hi Fast Company listeners! Please enjoy this sneak peek of our new podcast, Creative Conversation. In the first episode best-selling author David Sedaris explains how he spins the seemingly mundane into gold, the challenges of being a humorist in the P.C. age, and why he finds criticism so hard to process. For the full episode and series, please subscribe via: Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://goo.gl/wUSWwf Google Play: https://goo.gl/yKHHLx Stitcher: https://goo.gl/L6P8pC

Hi Fast Company listeners! Please enjoy this sneak peek of our new podcast, Secrets of the Most Productive People, with Kate Davis and Anisa Purbasari-Horton talking about how to work smarter instead of harder. For the full episode and series, please subscribe via: Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://goo.gl/JnpkcZ Google Play: https://goo.gl/Bx9ieS Stitcher: https://goo.gl/jdvG4c

Stuck in a creative funk? Looking for some inspiration to get that project off the ground? “Creative Conversation” is the spark you need. Join Fast Company editor KC Ifeanyi for in-depth explorations on the creative process with some of the most innovative thinkers across film, TV, music, and beyond. Tune in for conversations with David Sedaris, Max Richter, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, and more. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

Join Fast Company editors Kate Davis and Anisa Purbasari-Horton as they try to figure out how to get it all done. In this bi-weekly podcast they’ll sort out fact from fiction on things like multi-tasking, sleep, and email and get expert advice on how to work smarter instead of harder. Follow our hosts on Twitter: @KathleenEDavis and @a_purbasari and share your productivity tips and tricks using the hashtag #FCMostProductive. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

This show offers an inside look at some of America’s cult brands: businesses that have achieved the sort of extreme and even irrational customer loyalty that executives and entrepreneurs dream of. Can you orchestrate that word-of-mouth marketing as a company? And how much of this devotion is accidental? We sat down with the founders of SoulCycle, Drybar, and Casper to find out.

In this episode of "Innovators Uncensored," we catch up with Fast Company writer John Paul Titlow. He talks Moogfest, the multi-day festival celebrating electronic music in North Carolina, plus his sit-down with Giles Martin, who remixed The Beatles’ most ambitious album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," with a blend of vintage technique and modern tools. Get the full story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/40421732/how-the-beatles-sgt-pepper-was-retooled-to-sound-fresh-50-years-later?partner=soundcloud

The 97-year-old nonprofit was prepared for a Trump presidency in a way the rest of the country wasn’t. Here’s how Anthony Romero and his team did it. Read the full story: https://www.fastcompany.com/40407576/how-the-aclu-is-leading-the-resistance

This podcast, focused on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, explores how commerce and conscience can fuel success (or outrage) in today's fraught business climate. For more, check out out Fast Company's April cover story: "Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, And The Struggle To Do The Right Thing." https://www.fastcompany.com/40397294/facebook-airbnb-uber-and-the-struggle-to-do-the-right-thing

From Kurdish shepherd to billionaire CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya turned milk into gold and created a model for 21st-century leadership. In this conversation with Fast Company editor Bob Safian, you'll get a taste of how Ulukaya is winning America's culture war.

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Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman astronaut in space, went out and bought The Overview Effect while training for spaceflight. But it didn't resonate with her the way it did with other astronauts. "When I read The Overview Effect, people started talking about their hearts connected to this planet. But my response when I went into space is that I was connected to everything," she says. "I felt much more connected to everything else in the universe, and sometimes on Earth I felt much more separate from the rest of the universe. I felt like I had as much right to be in space or in this universe as any speck of stardust. I was as eternal as that."

Every day this month, for three minutes before midnight, some of the giant electronic billboards in Times Square flicker violently in rectangular sequences of black and white. This is not a glitch. It's test pattern [times square], an electronic piece by Paris-based Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, reworked for 47 screens across five blocks of one of the most iconic and irritating places in the world. This is the soundtrack that was played on October 16 as part of the installation.

An intimate conversation with Anne Wojcicki and Fast Company's Jill Bernstein.

An unprecedented oral history of the Apple brand, featuring eight essential designers and engineers.

Highlights from IUSF13 on November 6.