📈 Human Progress
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Cover photo taken by me at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, WA.Optimists are often called naive. The pessimists are, for some reason, considered being thoughtful intellectuals.But are they?Actually, it turns out that it is the pessimists that are...
🔥 The size of the world’s fires has decreased by 25 percent
Trying to control fire is a goal as old as mankind. But systematically monitoring fires on a global scale is a relatively new phenomenon. From having used lookout towers on mountain peaks and aircraft to, for the last few decades, deploying satellites to monitor the...
⛓️ First political candidate to put pledges on the blockchain
We caught up with Faruk Okcetin to talk about why he is doing this and what it means.You have decided to put your pledges in the blockchain. What does that mean?It means that I am putting out my commitments to the constituents whom I will represent on where I stand on...
