I just finished Louann Brizendine's book The Female Brain, who I heard speak at PopTech in Maine last week and blogged about briefly here. It's an intense book and while incredibly informative, particularly about what...
Like this time of year in New England (and also when I lived in London and Amsterdam, although I never had a back porch in Europe), you become aware that fall is passing and winter...
It's time to comment on my favorite speakers at PopTech last week. Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi was a true standout. For years, she lived in the shadows of Saddam Hussein, where she captured those days in...
We all love storytellers. Good storytellers. When I find one buried inside a book, whether its the character or the author, I marvel in the same way I did as a child listening to one...
"Global warming doesn't affect our visceral emotions," says Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert in a session on happiness. And that's why, he acclaims that we as a society are not taking it seriously. It doesn't make...
Daniel Pink was on the PopTech stage this afternoon talking to us about 'empathy.' I met him last night at the opening reception on the waterfront where we talked about his background to-date, largely writing...
While we're on cognition, Dr. Louann Brizendine gives us a peak into the female brain, addressing an audience that comprises more than 600 men and women. Her book with the same title - The Female...
Chris Jordan is the first speaker on the PopTech stage this morning. He is one of the more inspiring speakers I have heard in awhile. So much emotion, so much passion, so much inspiration --...
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