Unless you’ve been living under a rock (maybe not the worst of ideas these days), you’ve likely seen recent news bits in which Elon Musk states AI will be “smarter than any one human” by 2025. I found this statement really ridiculous. And just plain wrong. What Musk is really Read more…
What do your social relationships have to do with your success at work? Probably more than you think. We humans are hard-wired to connect, and that hard-wiring doesn’t go away when we go to work. Neuroscientist and social psychologist Matthew Lieberman argues that our need to connect is as basic Read more…
I often get asked why we chose to call our venture ’Tikel.’ A1: Because I think [email protected] is a hilarious email address. A2: Because the act of tickling someone is a simple analogy for what we’re doing with Tikel. My 3-year-old niece, Emilia, is obsessed with tickling. “Kell! Kell! Come Read more…
I cry a lot. This morning on the bus, when this beyond-cute baby couldn’t stop smiling at me. During a coaching session last weekend, when I was confronted by a particularly uncomfortable truth. This summer, when my comedian of a sister made me laugh so hard I thought I’d break Read more…
A few years ago I landed in California to visit my sister and her family. My sister’s eldest son, William, is one of my favorite human beings ever. He was 4 at the time, this hilarious combination of earnest pedant and aspiring comedian, with a voice deeper than my father’s. Read more…
Years ago I came across the idea that just the physical act of smiling can trick your brain into happiness. The notion itself is pseudo-paradoxical… It’s one thing to be hoodwinked by a third party (Santa Clause isn’t real? Subway’s footlong isn’t really 12 inches? That Nigerian prince won’t email Read more…