Talking to Humans

screen shot from humansofnewyork.com

I've posted a bit over the years about Brandon Stanton and his Humans of New York (HONY) website and books (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/11/humans-book.html, http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/08/more-humans.html) because they're just that superb (and p.s., the comments that follow his posts are equally profound and inspiring). Stanton and Dave Isay, founder of the app StoryCorps, are featured in a TED article on interviewing and storytelling. "I’ve learned there is nothing people won’t tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way,” he says: http://ideas.ted.com/the-art-of-storytelling-according-to-the-founders-of-storycorps-and-humans-of-new-york/