Empathy – the 4th most popular word in 2017, according to Merriam-Webster. It’s interesting that this word has risen up in its popularity this year. Mirriam-Webster also points out the connection between politics in the USA, and the increase usage and searches for empathy.
Here’s Google’s take on how empathy is doing 2017. This is a trend graph compared to sympathy and compassion:
Wednesday is my dedicated blog writing day. It’s the day I should sit down to blog for next weeks post that goes out on Tuesday. I turned up on time, but ended up doing some other nice stuff, but that didn’t help me create an actual blog post1.
Here I am commenting on others great stuff avoiding my designated time for writing a blogpost. At least I’m spreading _some_ value.
— Pavneet Singh Saund (@pavsaund) March 30, 2016