President Obama Awards the Medal of Honor to Corporal William “Kyle” Carpenter While war isn’t good news, bravery is. This young man is a fine model.

Crossing Guard Makes Sandy Hook a Brighter Place, One Dance at a Time I’ve read of dancing crossing guards before. As always, they make me smile. I love her statement, “All I do is try to make people happy, I wasn’t expecting the gifts.”

(No TED Talk today)

Just two, today, all about happiness.

10 Quickest Ways to Boost Happiness Ways based in science, not merely opinion. Love this one: “Just by reading all the way through this article, you’ll have achieved something-so you’ll feel good.”

Daily TED Talk

Flow, the secret to happiness (20min). I usually post 5 min talks in the interests of everyone’s time, but Czikszentmihalyi’s talk is worth the time. And, he has a fantastic last name.

Benefit Corporations Look Beyond the Profit Motive B Corps: an affirmation of something I believe, which is that businesses aren’t “for making a profit,” they’re for providing a good or service. Profit is the means, not the end.

Homeless runner embraced by S.F. Marathon He’s not even taking the fund-raising for himself. It’s to benefit the homeless charity that helped him.

Daily TED Talk

The refugees of boom-and-bust (3 min) “At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.”