Nicefy Yourself!
There is a new tool that will help you be more polite! FoxType has a software program that makes any phrase more polite: Via Neatorama. Photo Daniel Nash.
La terre est parfois si jolie
La terre est parfois si jolie. – Jacques Prévert I used to live in Paris and this is one of my favorite quotes. In english, it translates to: sometimes the earth can be so beautiful. I like [...]
Moving Past Stranger Danger
The way people receive kindness, depends a lot on how we frame it. We are all susceptible to “stranger danger”, so we need to think about our delivery if we are going to make dramatic changes in [...]
Taking random acts of kindness to the next level
Here is a wonderful article about a man named Ferdinando Buscema. Buscema is a magical experience designer. He helps people make every day experiences become magical. I started reading this [...]
Kidney Chains
In our film, Kindness Is Contagious, we profile Daria Mabra, who donated a Kidney to her next door neighbor who she hardly knew. This introduced me to the concept of kidney chains (although [...]
Stanford University Q&A With The Filmmakers
Kindness Is Contagious is a great way to open up a dialogue about kindness in your community. After our screening there was a terrific dialogue and guests posed many very interesting questions. [...]
Hardwired For Kindness
Here is a terrific book by Dr. Donald Pfaff that scientifically demonstrates how humans are hardwired for kindness. The main premise is that humans are born ‘prematurely’ in comparison to all [...]
Making Kind Machines To Prevent Robopocalypse
The promise during the 50s was that computers would make it so that people would not have work as hard and usher in a brand new society of leisure. The reality is far from that. What happened is [...]
The Kindness Of Crowds
After immersing myself in the study of kindness I have come to believe that people on a whole are fundamentally good. Stephen Reicher, a social psychologist at the University of St Andrews [...]
We're Sometimes Kind Without Reason, Or Are We?
I produced the film Kindness Is Contagious to use principals of science to hack human behavior and make the world a little better by spreading kindness. The idea of my film is that if kindness is [...]
