Essays, interviews, and perspectives on kindness in science, leadership, everyday life, and culture.
There is a particular kind of person most of us have known at some point. They do not arrive with fanfare. They do not wait for a dramatic moment to...
April 10, 2026
You are watching a stranger help an elderly woman carry groceries up a flight of stairs. Nobody asked. Nobody is filming. You are several feet away, completely uninvolved, and yet...
April 8, 2026
A few years ago a woman named Carla started playing a private game at the grocery store. Every trip, she would say one genuine thing to one person she did...
April 6, 2026
For most of the twentieth century, the dominant logic of urban design was throughput. How many cars could move through an intersection per hour. How efficiently a person could get...
April 3, 2026
Marcus grew up in a house where books were not a feature. Not because his parents did not value education. They were working too many hours to have time for...
April 1, 2026
There is a framing problem at the center of most workplace wellbeing conversations. Companies talk about treating people well as an investment, a strategy, something that pays off. And it...
March 30, 2026
The research is clear: leaders who demonstrate genuine kindness build stronger teams, retain talent longer, and outperform their counterparts over time. Yet kindness rarely appears on leadership competency frameworks, executive...
March 17, 2026
When you witness an act of kindness, something measurable happens in your body. Researchers call it moral elevation. Your chest warms. Your posture opens. You feel, however briefly, that the...
March 13, 2026
From her early work in journalism to founding a global media movement, Renee Dutton has spent years studying what kindness looks like when it moves from idea to action. Her...
March 6, 2026
