Tommy frequently muses about how his field of Emotive Programming -- algorithms that teach computers to feel-- might relate to a life torn apart by the loss of our loved ones, serious illness, destruction of the brain's higher functions in stroke, job loss, financial ruin, and other painful life changes. His creation of "Algorithmic Psychology" seminars worldwide has helped thousands look at life in a very different new frame, a frame in which life's painful events do not have to change our joy.