{"id":3951,"date":"2017-12-11T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Youre-not-constantly-seeing-negative-headlines-because-the-world-is-getting-worse-youre-constantly-seeing"},"modified":"2017-12-11T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:48:06","slug":"youre-not-constantly-seeing-negative-headlines-because-the-world-is-getting-worse-youre-constantly-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/12\/11\/youre-not-constantly-seeing-negative-headlines-because-the-world-is-getting-worse-youre-constantly-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You\u2019re not constantly seeing negative headlines because the world is getting worse, you\u2019re constantly seeing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/files\/26390692-6864-4d75-bc98-0e743ea479dc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You\u2019re not constantly seeing negative headlines because the world is getting worse, you\u2019re constantly seeing negative headlines because that\u2019s what audiences react to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I quietly make it my mission to post mostly positive stuff to social media, as my small contribution to making it more like I want it to be (note to self: do that social media manifestorant sometime). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I especially emphasise stories about possibility, and about people who are making, or have made, a difference through courage, intelligence, and perseverance. And my fiction is like that, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t an attempt to ignore the enormous problems we have. But just constantly boosting the message &#8220;We have enormous problems!&#8221; is no way to make any progress on solving them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m fortunate to have worked with many engineers, and I like their mindset: &#8220;We assume that this problem can be solved, now let&#8217;s work together to figure out how.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Singularity Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why Intelligent Optimism Is Crucial to Human Progress <a href=\"http:\/\/suhub.co\/2BzQz5A\">http:\/\/suhub.co\/2BzQz5A<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;You\u2019re not constantly seeing negative headlines because the world is getting worse, you\u2019re constantly seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collective-endeavour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}