Wonderful post for the new year, from Kathy Sierra on the Creating Passionate Users blog:

Hopes

• More optimism: “optimism can produce positive change”
• Less meanness: “not giving in to the kind of anger that leads to self-righteous cruelty”
• More flow: “the condition psychologists call optimal experience”
• More design: “aesthetics matter”
• More learning: and “more teaching blogs”
• Less black and white thinking: “more consideration of context and subtlety”
• Less ego: it’s not about the author, it’s about the reader
• More stories: “stories can change the world”

Great advice that I’ve already taken to heart. I sure hope this will qualify as a teaching blog that contributes to realizing all of these hopes.

All the details … and the predictions? Go read the post. Did I mention it’s wonderful?