How A Greeting Card Can Improve Your Empathy

A few months ago I was driving to a doctor’s appointment when I was cut off by another car, or I should say by another driver. After all, it wasn’t the car’s fault. Anyway, I was startled and angry. Adrenaline flooded me, and I jammed on the brakes nearly running into another car.You know how it feels when you think you’ve been “wronged.” I don’t think of myself as a vengeful person, but I instinctively felt the need to “get back” at this driver to even things up. It took a few minutes for me to calm down even as

Meet Peli, Our Director of Happiness

One day we got an email from a guy claiming to be a penguin. He said he heard that we were creating a new e-greeting card website featuring “semi-beautiful poetry,” and he wanted to know how he could get involved. Who would have guessed that penguins could be interested in semi-beautiful poetry? Of course we assumed that this was a prank. After all we live in California, home to more than its share of creative people. But it was such a novel pitch we wanted to meet this guy. We were going to be in Los Angeles the following week