25 Billion Served Up: Itunes Reaches Milestone

This smart new service adds any event directly into Google Calendar for you—all from a simple forwarded email. Ahem. I’ve come to an extremely important and highly scientific revelation:

This week, Delia Cai tackles the social media etiquette around being a political (and social) animal on Slack.  There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude).

The collaborative platform that’s a favorite among designers launches an abstracted, colorful rebrand to expand its user base. There’s an old cliché that you can’t be everything to everyone. Design platforms of late are on a mission to prove otherwise. Figma is the latest example. Today, the company is launching a refreshed visual identity that represents its growing, post-Adobe breakup ambitions to be, well, just about everything.

In her new book, leadership expert Sarah Langslow explores how even our smallest habits impact our relationships and our ability to lead. Micro-interactions are an often unrecognized part of our everyday lives. They are what we say, and don’t say. They are what we listen to and what we ignore, consciously or otherwise.

We spoke to the evil genius behind Home Depot’s always-killer Halloween decorations. A common internet joke from a few years back involved going to Target for one thing, and leaving with a cartful of unrelated items. And for the past several years, there’s been a new, very real threat to wallets across North America: Going to Home Depot for some tools, and coming home with a 12-foot-tall skeleton strapped to the roof of your Mini Cooper.