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🗞️ You can save local journalism and make a ton of money - want to know how?
Everyone thinks local journalism is going down the drain, but they confuse it with local newspapers. Zero distribution cost and the tools of the internet is a significant asset that can help you grab one of today's most massive business opportunities and at the same time support local democracy.
⏫ The Strategies of Optimism
Optimists gain their edge by starting from an assumption of improvements and iterating from there, and they can boost their efforts by collaborating, writes Warp News Expert Nicklas Berild Lundblad.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Life is non-zero & a pianist with bionic gloves
A book that argues there is a point to it all, Volkswagens push towards carbon neutrality, and interview with VW's Herbert Diess, non-violent resistance and pianist that can play again after twenty years thanks to bionic gloves.
📝 Warp News Impact - October 2020
Record-breaking reach and strongest premium supporter growth month ever.
☠️ Doomscrolling - How your news feed gives you a negative worldview
Murder, war, and famine. What we doomscroll happens every day on earth. But we must understand that the news is a report of the worst that happens every given day. That is why we must balance our worldview.
✈️ In the future we travel more than ever
Our current means of transport are improving at a rapid pace. But there will also be several new ways of traveling that will make us travel more than ever in the future.
💡 Tips from Warp News: Food out of thin air & maps of progress
Ken Follett's new book, interactive maps that show the world's progress, food out of thin air, why people are so pessimistic about the future - and finally a way to know if the ice cream at McDonald's is broken.
🙄 Are optimists naive? No, but the pessimists are
Contrary to popular belief, it is the pessimists that are naive, not the optimists. Despite tremendous progress for humanity, they think that this progress will suddenly end, without any reason. That is irrational and foolish.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.