There is an amusing 2026 book by Christopher Duffy titled Humor Me: How laughing more can make you present, creative, connected, and happy. On page 215 there is a 2x2 chart, which I have colorized as shown above. And on February 10, 2026 I blogged about this book in a post titled Hair salons with puns for names.
The book has eleven chapters with the following titles:
1] The First Pillar: Being Present
2] The Second Pillar: Laughing at Yourself
3] The Third Pillar: Taking Social Risks
4] The Math of Comedy
5] Becoming Magnetic
6] Inside Jokes with Abe Lincoln
7] The Second-Best Medicine
8] More Exciting than ‘Eureka!’
9] Punching Up
10] Laughing and Crying
11] The Only Thing Worse than No Sense of Humor
Chris has an eight-minute TED talk about what’s in the book released on September 11, 2024 titled How to Find Laughter Anywhere | Chris Duffy | TED. He describes, as also is on page 69 in the book, putting the title of Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn on his LinkedIn profile. Amazingly it took their Trust & Safety department a year to react to that by deleting his account!
He also was interviewed by npr at Weekend edition on January 11, 2026.
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