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Defy Ventures

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“Step To The Line”: How Prison Is Helping Oculus Expand VR’s Horizons

Oculus and entrepreneurship program Defy Ventures are using motivational exercises and groundbreaking VR films to change lives on both sides of the prison wall.

“Step To The Line”: How Prison Is Helping Oculus Expand VR’s Horizons

Most Creative People

The Case For Hugging Your Coworkers

Defy Ventures, which works to help former inmates develop entrepreneurial skills, finds hugging it out is the best way to break down walls.

The Case For Hugging Your Coworkers

Impact

In a battle between this endangered flower and a lithium mine, who should win?

The price tag for a net zero transition: $3.5 trillion a year

This guaranteed income pilot gives low-income New York mothers $1,000 a month

News

Athletic Greens is now a unicorn. Its unicorn goal: Be this generation’s cool beverage

Market crash or correction? Here’s a little perspective before you panic sell

This fake memoir perfectly parodies the failed-comedian-to-conservative-pundit pipeline

Co.Design

One huge post-pandemic shift for retail workers? More comfortable stores to work in

From reels to ruins: See inside America’s crumbling movie theaters

The trolliest drop this year uses illegal logos from Coca-Cola, Walmart, Tesla, and Microsoft

Work Life

Switching careers? Here are 4 ways to find a knowledgeable mentor

Why no one on your team wants to be a manager anymore—and how to change that

5 ways to set winning goals–and stick to them