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 [...]
Viral Kindness At Stanford University
David Gaz, James Fowler, Sara Glaser and Brandon Schott were on hand at Stanford Univerity’s CCARE, The Center for Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at the Stanford [...]
Should we Share?
On the island of New Britain, anthropologist Jane Goodale witnessed a group of Kaulong children play a game after they had been given one banana each. Their play, however, did not resemble the [...]
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 [...]
