Sarah Turcotte

Fast Company Magazine

Turning Hotel Gift Shop Glum Into Gold

Seaside Luxe turns stale gift shops into revenue generators simply by paying attention to them.

Turning Hotel Gift Shop Glum Into Gold

Fast Company Magazine

So Long, Pagers: How WaitAway And Other Wait Apps Are Changing Restaurants, DMVs And More

Or at least more tolerable: How new virtual-queue apps are changing restaurants, DMVs, and more

So Long, Pagers: How WaitAway And Other Wait Apps Are Changing Restaurants, DMVs And More

Fast Company Magazine

Discovery’s True-Crime ID Network Boosts Ratings With Original Programming

How the black sheep of the Discovery media family, true-crime network ID, finally cracked the ratings case.

Discovery’s True-Crime ID Network Boosts Ratings With Original Programming

Impact

The Ocean Cleanup project is now cleaning plastic out of rivers to stop it from getting to the ocean

How the government workforce can transform itself for the future

3 ways that you can support sucking extra carbon from the air

Creativity

Simulated torture, underwear-only haunted houses: How did the Halloween business get so scary?

This is what happens when Harvey Weinstein goes out in public now

How Charlie’s Angels director, producer, and actor Elizabeth Banks took control of her career

Co.Design

Motorola is building a new kind of walkie-talkie for first responders

Always wants you to know pads aren’t just for cis women

Here are the winners of the first contest for hacker stock photos

Work Life

I was a startup founder who burned out. Here’s what I learned

How to stop fear from driving your decision-making process

Failure will hurt more than you think. Here’s how to learn from it anyway