📚 E-book: Naive Pessimists
Meet the naysayers who thrive on doom, hog the spotlight - and get almost everything wrong.
🤦 The Nobel laureate’s banal critique of humanity
The Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai claims humanity peaked at the Moon landing and that technology since has made us worse. But his bleak view is neither new nor convincing — it mostly reveals how we humans always complain about the time we live in.
🕵️ Stupid overconfidence in "The Traitors" raises a crucial question about our democracy
Why do so many people follow the stupidly overconfident types in The Traitors? And what can we learn from it to defend our democracy?
🥃 The glass is neither half full nor half empty
Fact-based optimists don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty. They see the world in a different way.