Making A Difference

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Currently it’s not economically viable to do many jobs in America when labor is cheaper overseas. But maybe we can compete by thinking differently. Maybe it’s time for a new kind of [...]

Here is an interesting article from the ever amazing blog “Brain Pickings“. Maria Popova posits the we think that we do nice things to people we like and bad things to those we [...]

Social networks and altruism are deeply inter-connected.  Each is required for the other. In research that we have been conducting these past few years, we have explored how kind acts flow across [...]

Here’s a great video by Bill Nye, The Science Guy, It turns out that all this helping people you are doing is actually working: MYTH 1) The us spends 25% of it’s budget each year on [...]

Look around. We are all now makers, creators, and the people who will decide the future of the world. Remaking, renewing, and reinventing are propelling us forward. Looking to the future and the [...]