Joe Keohane

Jun 4, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Joe Keohane

It was seven or eight years ago that Dawn Moyer noticed that an odd silence had begun to fall across the campus of Oregon State. In her decade as a student adviser there, the school had always been alive with conversation. No more. Moyer would step into a full classroom, and it would be silent. She’d walk down a crowded hallway, and no one would be talking. At the same time, Moyer saw a “huge” increase in reports of anxiety and depression among her students.

Dec 6, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Joe Keohane

That book is “Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia,” and, true to its title, it begins by charting the evolution of the concept of nostalgia, from its genesis as a medical diagnosis related to homesickness to a more abstract yearning for a rosier past to one of its many current usages, as an insult levied at anyone believed to be an opponent of progress. But by the end, “Yesterday” stands as a profound statement about how humans exist in time and live with the past.

Nov 20, 2023 | gq.com | Joe Keohane

Marc Benioff has not had what you might call a conventional entrepreneurial experience. As a teenager in San Francisco he created his own home-made video games, and sold them to pay for college. After graduation, he became one of the fastest rising executives in the history of Oracle, before an existential crisis led him to take a sabbatical and travel to Nepal.

Mar 24, 2023 | eltiempo.com | Joe Keohane

Nov 8, 2022 | lithub.com | Joe Keohane