Emotional intelligence is the binding agent within infrastructures that produce positive human experience.

Before leaving dream my job I wrote 3 words on the edge of our lab’s whiteboard:

curiosity

meaning

belonging

In a sense I left these as my proxy; considerations for designing the future. They are complicated and easily overlooked. Without them we risk apathy, irrelevance, and alienation… not the makings of a beautiful future.

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Curiosity desires magic. To be curios is to be invested.

Curiosity leads to meaning and with meaning we belong.

We belong to each other, communities, ideas, science, music, TV shows…

Belonging is an aspect of love, the ultimate of needs.

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I missed adding a very important word to the whiteboard.

Humor…

…lighten already

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I sometimes wonder if the words are still there.