by Kare Anderson | Dec 14, 2009 | behavior, Book, Caring, Friendship, Likeability, love
Something in yesterday’s “Modern Love“ column struck me as ringing true, not only for enduring marriages but for flourishing friendships, “Being single is all about the future, about the person you’re going to meet at Starbucks or after answering the next scientific...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 5, 2009 | Book, Co-Create, collaboration, Customer
Want to be in the book, The Obama Time Capsule: World History in the Making? Any of us could be a co-author, thanks to a partnership between fellow Sausalitan, photographer and editor of “Day in the Life of…” big theme books Rick Smolan and...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 24, 2009 | Book, Choice, Collective Intelligence
When we belong to a group we gradually take stands on the extreme edge of that group’s opinions, counter-intuitively to fit in. In so doing that group becomes more extreme in its views over time. That, in a nutshell is what Cass Sunstein describes in Going to...
by Kare Anderson | May 27, 2009 | Book, Conflict, Connecting
He takes a stupid stand. (Translation: he hit my hot button.) My first response is to dislike him. (Apparently that’s a universal reaction.) My distaste shows on my face and in my tone, despite my attempt to cover my feelings in a cloak of civility. Even friends or...
by Kare Anderson | May 9, 2009 | behavior, Book, Choice
In Star Trek two heroes in-the-making, one impulsively intuitive, the other straining to be rational, recognize they can learn from each other. So can women and men. How do you react in a hot situation?”A thought comes when it will, not when I will,” wrote...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 12, 2009 | Book, Caring, CrowdSource
Michael J. Fox and Google are joining forces to take a “search” approach to discovering who’s most likely to get Parkinson’s – and you can participate. Be one of the first 10,000 to sign up and get your genomic “map” – your data for just $25 instead of $400. Your...
