🥇 Optimist’s Edge
🗞️ You can save local journalism and make a ton of money – want to know how?
This headline in The Guardian is typical: “Local journalism is on its knees – endangering democracy.”Looking at me over the table and some thick law books was a handful of serious people telling us the same thing as the Guardian headline. They were CEOs...
⏫ The Strategies of Optimism
Optimism is sometimes dismissed as a kind of cognitive bias. The optimists want the world to be better than it is, they do not see the reality of the way the world is changing, they invest in hopes not facts.In contrast pessimists are seen as wise, realistic and...
☠️ Doomscrolling – How your news feed gives you a negative worldview
Influencer, deepfake, deplatforming. In a short time, we have created many terms to describe the new digital and social reality we live in. One such term that has not been talked about as much is doomscrolling.Doomscrolling is when you scroll through all your social...
🙄 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...
