Tag: optimism

  • Seeking Tribe #13: Substack Launch!

    Are you interested in challenging your assumptions and biases? Do you want to connect with other thoughtful, ambitious, curious people? My friends and I are all committed to building a future that is much better than any of us alone could imagine. We’re tired of doom and gloom. We don’t want to spend our attention…

  • The Virtue of Pessimism

    This blog is an excerpt from my book, Lead The Future: Strategies and Systems for Emerging Leaders (the e-book is cheaper here). Pessimists assume that things will get worse, or not go according to plan, but they care about the outcome. They have an important function to play in challenging an overly optimistic consensus. As a society, we…