If you are in the capital of Mali and in need of a hand for writing a letter, you might go see the men with the pens on the public benches near the central post office. Sometimes I like to think of ourselves at Micro-Documentaries like the scribes of Bamako — hired to express people’s visions of a more loving world.

People we feature in micro-documentaries will sometimes ask us about what they should wear or what would look good on camera. While there are a few technical tips we share, this advice from novelist Roald Dahl is probably best, especially when it comes to sharing a story of impact.

Do you have a social innovator in the making at home? Are you looking for a simple way to practice mindfulness and recharge during the day? Here’s the smartphone app you’re looking for!

“It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well … Let us search for his largeness of spirit somewhere inside of ourselves.” — Barack Obama

Last week my daughter and I biked to school as we regularly do. For the first time, however, she was now on her own bike. The Dutch Bobike seat, which was so difficult to find in the U.S., now seems to her like something that’s for babies. Nostalgia that these almost unexpected transitions trigger is tempered […]