Civic project · Gross National Happiness USA · 2025
The Happiness Walk
If you walked across the country asking strangers what matters most, what would they say, and where?
The question
Since 2012, Gross National Happiness USA has walked thousands of miles asking one question: what matters most to you? The recordings sat in a shared drive.
Collect
A pipeline links every interview to its recording, geocodes where it happened, transcodes the clip for the web and stores it in a private bucket, streamed through a small range-aware proxy so nothing is exposed publicly.
Present
A map of the country where every marker is a person. Click one to watch or listen. Each clip has a permalink so it can be shared on its own.