David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

But it does mean it's pretty dumb if you don't realize that it's not going to complete you in some hocus-pocus-woo sense to make more.

It really isn't.

I find it easier to be optimistic than pessimistic because I don't know either way.

So if I get to choose, why not just choose to believe it's going to pan out?

Yeah.

Like we suffer more in our imagination than we do in reality.

That's one of the quotes out of Stoicism.

And I also think we have a tendency, a lot of humans have a tendency to be

pessimistic in advance for things they don't know how it's going to pan out.

Climate change, for example, is making a lot of people very anxious and very pessimistic about the future.

You know nothing.

40 years ago, we thought the problem was that the planet was going to be too cool.

I happen to believe that it's probably correct that the planet is getting too hot and that CO2 has something to do with it, whether we have the right measures to fix it in time, if that's even possible or not.

is completely up in the air.

And we don't know.

If you convince yourself with such certainty that the world is going to turn to shit, it is right up here in your head today.

Climate change might wipe out this entire species in 200 years.

It's not next year.

It's not 10 years from now.

Your life might become more unpleasant and there might be more negative effects and so on.