Go borrow some sugar from your neighbor
Channeling Outkast a bit here, but for good measure. Continue Reading
Connections
Just text some of your friends periodically. Check in. Be a human being.
It’s not that hard, and it changes lives. Continue Reading
Our COVID mental health reckoning … or not?
The prevailing idea about “post-COVID” is that we’d see a big mental health decline, but that’s something with more nuance than we realize. Continue Reading
An achievable 2016 networking goal
If you like this post, feel free to share it with your friends. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post. I actually moved to Texas on July 14, 2014. Prior to that, my wife and I were living… Continue Reading
The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.
I just watched that TED Talk — it’s titled “Everything we think about addiction is wrong” — this morning. I had seen a few people share it on social since TED released it about a week ago (it’s from a… Continue Reading
Can we teach empathy, especially to adults?
An important question of the modern age. Continue Reading
Buffer, a social media startup, let the world know all its salaries. That’s gauche, right? Or maybe it’s genius…
A little over a month ago, Buffer — a startup that, among other things, lets you schedule your social media postings — decided to publish its salary format and the salaries of all its current employees on its blog. You could… Continue Reading
Ah, the future of social media as local social? Meet Nextdoor
Even though I’m a reprehensible snob about it, Facebook is a good way to keep track of what’s going on in the lives of your far-flung friends. Twitter is less so for that (unless all your friends happen to be… Continue Reading