The end of the year teaches us about letting go and renewal, if we let it. — As a child, I thought December was winter, and that winter meant the end of the year. …

A call to make our appreciation for our own good fortune more actionable for others. — Most people think of Thanksgiving as the high holiday of gratitude in the calendar year, but for me it tends to be the last few weeks of December. …

There is a popular tendency, amplified perhaps by social media, to catalog all current events by the year in which they are happening, and when these current events are what we might call ”bad,“ to then blame the year itself for being a bad year. …

While business tends to focus on the future of work and humans tend to focus on the future of jobs, the real potential for the future is in aligning them. When I speak with groups of executives about emerging technology, digital transformation, and the future of human experiences, every group…

I would never claim to know more about love than most people. All humans — and maybe non-human animals too — probably come equipped with a fairly intuitive understanding of it. But as a widow, having seen the one I then loved most in the world die, my view of…

I know things don’t always work out. I know life doesn’t last. Life is finite. I know love survives death. But I also know sometimes love doesn’t work out, doesn’t last, doesn’t live up to all of its promises. I know bad things happen to good people. I know all of this. And yet I know this, too: I know it’s still possible to be happy. I know it’s still possible to throw yourself wholeheartedly into love, even when you know you could end up hurt, because what else are you going to do, avoid it?

We need to encode technology with the best of our humanity. — Note: this manifesto generated so much interest and such encouraging feedback that it grew into a book published in 2018: Tech Humanist. Please buy, read, review, share, and keep spreading the word. After twenty-plus years of working in web technology, digital strategy, marketing, and operations, with job titles like “intranet…