🌱 news is about sudden events not gradual changes

news is about stuff that happens not stuff that doesn’t happen

no one says “I’m reporting live from a country that has been at peace for 140 years”

news is about sudden events not gradual changes

Papers could run

138,000 people escaped extreme poverty today

every day for the last 25 years

Availability heuristic, and negativity bias (bad is stronger than good) tells us the world is getting more dangerous when it is not.

There are places where this is not true but the general trend is true.

Nothing is more responsible for the good ol days than a bad memory.