
Weekly insights on humor as a professional skill. Research, strategies, and stories from a Humor Engineer with 16M+ TEDx views.
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A quick welcome to everyone joining after recent events in Maine, Tennessee, or Nebraska. You're here because you said yes to the newsletter on the post-event survey. It's one email a week, on Fridays, with a story and something you can use...
Twenty-five years ago today, I was sitting in a high school class called Theory of Knowledge.
It was part of the IB diploma program, and the idea was to step back from all the individual subjects we were taking and ask how we knew any of i...
Which comes first, success or happiness?
It’s a question I ask when I’m delivering my keynote on humor, happiness, and work, and the hands go up the same way in almost every room.
Most people vote success.
Not because they think happin...
“I get it. Humor matters. But what do I actually do on Friday when we get back to the office?”
That was the question I heard after my event on Wednesday (and a variation of one I get after almost every keynote). Usually in the hallway, usu...
The sea air hit me and I was instantly in 2015.
Two weeks ago, I was in Maine, on a path heading down toward a lighthouse, the night before a keynote. The resort was about four hours from Boston, which is a long way to drive for a speaking...
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