Ran across three posts today about more or less the same thing. I love this sort of spark in the cosmos.

David Armano writes about empathy over in the AdAge Digital Next blog.

"Are we making the time to walk in the shoes of the people we market to? Are we willing to swim in the deep end?"

Alan Wolk writes about getting outside your comfort zone at his blog, The Toad Stool.

"...we need to be able to put everything into perspective. To think about why someone outside our bubble would use these apps or want to see certain content. To realize how provincial and uninformed we sound if we promote things to clients without (taking) the actual audience into account."

And then there's this recent high school commencement address from the comedian Patton Oswalt.

"...now I understand how the miraculous, horrifying and memorable lurk everywhere. But they’re hidden to the kind of person I was when I graduated high school. And now – and it’s because of my traveling and living and some pretty profound mistakes along the way – they’re all laid open to me. They’re mine for the feasting. In the Sistine Chapel and in a Taco Bell. In Bach’s Goldberg Variations and in the half-heard brain dead chatter of a woman on her cell phone behind me on an airplane. In Baghdad, Berlin and Sterling, Virginia."

I love days like this.