> we need to be excited about progress; we need to rule ideas in, and not out; but paying too much tribute to Big Exciting Change can distract us from Small Changes That Are Worth Making… which is why we spend as much time here talking about public-transit reform as we do robotaxis
Just wanted to emphatically affirm this note. Culturally it seems like we’ve lost the ability to be excited about the future as something that can be great. That’s not just excessive skepticism, it also manifests as a defeatist hopelessness about even *trying* to improve small things. I think this is one of those things where to bring back *either* we need to bring back *both*.
> we need to be excited about progress; we need to rule ideas in, and not out; but paying too much tribute to Big Exciting Change can distract us from Small Changes That Are Worth Making… which is why we spend as much time here talking about public-transit reform as we do robotaxis
Just wanted to emphatically affirm this note. Culturally it seems like we’ve lost the ability to be excited about the future as something that can be great. That’s not just excessive skepticism, it also manifests as a defeatist hopelessness about even *trying* to improve small things. I think this is one of those things where to bring back *either* we need to bring back *both*.