The Social Age

Does social software make you happy?

My friend Alex Kjerluf is a happy guy. And he spends the majority of his time sharing his happiness with
people and helping them learn to be “Happy @ Work“. I asked Alex about happiness, and how happiness is manifested in The Social Age. Rising to the challenge, Alex, an expert […]

I’ve been sick lately. Not deathly ill, but feeling pretty rotten. Last night I was hungry, and having been too under-the-weather to go to the grocery store, I had nary a thing in the fridge. So I did what many Americans would do — I picked up the phone and ordered in.
Forty-five minutes later a […]

In the world of 24-hour news and continuous visual overload, it is occasionally nice to just sit back and contemplate — one’s life, one’s world, one’s navel. It’s amazing what you can learn when folks are willing to share those contemplative moments — from the random to the sublime, from the provocative to the banal. […]

More likely than not, you’ve heard of the global musical extravaganza that took place on 07-07-07 around the world. Live Earth was billed as “a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis”. (visit liveearth.org)
In the […]

I was in Nashville recently, and it was a great time. I went with my pal Michael, who works for the Danish Mission to the United Nations and is heading back to Denmark at the end of the summer. Michael is a curious guy. He cares about the world, people and what makes them tick. […]