Think Fast: 5 Stories You Need To Read

August 25, 2016

1.There is a dark underbelly to the global cotton industry—nighmarish. But the organic, fair-trade bedsheets company Boll & Branch wants to change that. [Fast Company]

“We wake up in cotton sheets, dry off with cotton towels after showering, and layer cotton clothing over ourselves. Cotton is ubiquitous, but most of us have no idea where it comes from.”

2.Here are six things you may be doing now that you’ll likely regret in a decade (or more). [Co.Leadership]

“Roughly one-third (32%) of Americans regret major choices in their lives.”

3.One man’s heroic quest to make the best coffee as lazily as possible. [Co.Design]

“If I learned anything from a few weeks of lazier coffee consumption, it was how quickly an old ritual could be broken.”

4.From making you live longer to making cities more resilient, a list of 50 reasons everyone should want more walkable streets. [Co.Exist]

“If someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.”

5.How to create incredible dialogue, according to legendary screenwriting guru Robert McKee. [Co.Create]

“When people say that they don’t have a natural instinct for dialogue, it’s often not a reality — it’s just a doubt.”