One of my favorite blogs is Happiness and Public Policy which contains wonderful postings on research and news on this often elusive pursuit. This morning there’s a devastating critique of a Financial Times piece linking happiness, suicides, and economic growth. My big takeaway is "We don’t even know if there is a lawlike relationship (the kind necessary to support valid scientific generalizations) between the way people talk about happiness and the way that actually feel."
This would be a good topic for the Q2 meeting of the Silicon Valley Junto.
As you know, Ben, I think the question of happiness is the most important question an individual can answer.