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Meet the people of Wantoo — a startup that eschews desks in favor of ottomans and sofas, all in the name of conversation. It may sound like a new way to work, but it turns out people have been doing this since the toga-wearing, wine-swilling days of the ancient greeks. And it’s working!

A new form of crisis intervention is gaining traction and all you need to access it is a tap of a finger. Using text messages to connect people with a team of volunteer counselors, Crisis Text Line can then use anonymized data to make the service smarter every day — and thereby more responsive to more people in crisis.

Danny Groner refused to be a nameless face in the crowd, so he embarked on an epic journey to get to know every single person at his fast-growing company. Now he wants you to pay it forward.

Co-working spaces: A breeding ground for creative productivity, or a distracting muddle of incongruous working styles? It’s the eternal question plaguing freelancers, contractors and startup venturers everywhere — so we brought together two entrepreneurs (and a clutch of experts) to debate the pros and cons.

In which we visit a grade school in Texas where students are taught to become budding entrepreneurs. Move over lemonade stand, this is serious business.

Award-winning product designer Ayse Birsel doesn’t just design furniture, she uses those principles to help you construct the life you’ve always imagined.

A simple age-old kitchen timer can have a profound effect on how productive you are at work. We experiment with tic tocking our brain into efficiency.

“Let’s all go work in Antarctica!” Said no one, ever. Oh, except for this team of brave souls who doubled down on down-feathered outerwear and took up the post at the Port Lockroy post office.

The problem isn’t that you drink coffee, researchers say it’s when you drink it that could make all the difference.

Our brains are constantly hard at work writing scripts and narratives about how other people perceive us. Trouble is — according to best-selling author and researcher Brené Brown — most of those stories simply aren’t true. Here, she expertly debunks our inner monologues and reveals how editing your thoughts can help you, and your team, work better together.