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"We are optimists and believe there is hope on the other side of despair.... We need government, business and entrepreneurial intervention at scale (deployed logically and effectively) to get to the other side."

Mary Meeker • Attention Required! | Cloudflare

It’s in the spirit of optimism that a person blithely builds up credit card debt on optional expenditures, takes out a second mortgage, or agrees to a mortgage with an interest rate that will escalate over time. And the ideology of positive thinking eagerly fanned this optimism and the sense of entitlement that went with it.

Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America

Better, I believe, to maintain hope amid life’s uncertainties—but to distinguish hope from optimism. Many people use the terms almost interchangeably, but they are different. Optimism involves an element of prediction—as we just saw, expecting a good outcome in a way that may be borderline delusional. Hope involves a belief that even if a disappoin... See more

How to Deal With Disappointment

“In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.”

Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management

Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive

Grist grist.org

7.“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”

I Hope I’m Wrong!

Ryan Broderick garbageday.email