We live in a world of information abundance, if you want to believe something you can almost always find evidence for it. Being optimistic then is an active practice, it’s about cultivating tools, mental models, and practices to see the positive in the world. In this episode of Hopepunk, we’ll give you a toolkit to transform your thinking and become more optimistic. If you leave this episode feeling a little more optimistic, we simply ask that you share it with someone else who could ...

At the same time, AI is expected to solve all our problems and create even bigger ones. There's an almost endless supply of simultaneous fear and excitement surrounding AI. It begs the question, how can we navigate the complex landscape of this disruptive technology? What are we really getting into, and how can we steer it toward a positive future? This week on Hopepunk, join us as we dive deep into the world of AI. We'll uncover the fascinating intricacies of this technology, weigh its ris...

Behind the scenes, healthcare is gearing up for a radical acceleration. When it comes to medicine, AI and other cutting-edge technology is like a time machine, it’s allowing us to do in weeks what used to take years, and in years what used to take decades. Right now much of this progress is at the infrastructure level, it’s the unsexy story of niche scientific breakthroughs. At some point however, quite possibly in the next 10 years, healthcare will have its own 'ChatGPT moment,' and when th...

There are two stories of climate change, the impending Hollywood-style apocalypse narrative the news spoon feeds us, and the real story of remarkable human ingenuity and scientific progress. Have you ever even imagined a future where we solve climate change? Where every day the world gets a little greener and a little cooler. On this episode of Hopepunk, we get into the incredible progress humanity is making to solve the climate crisis. It’s a lot more than you’d think. If you leave thi...

What if the coming age of automation and AI was the beginning of a new golden age for humanity? There are a lot of good reasons to be concerned about the impacts of AI and automation. However, what we fail to acknowledge is all the profoundly positive change these new technologies can—and already are bringing—to society. This next wave of automation represents a wholesale revaluing of skills, human connection, and meaningful work. When we change the rules of productivity, we start to renego...

Fear of overpopulation goes back a long long way. Well, turns out the results are already coming in, we’re not staring at the face of an exponential explosion, but the beginning of a new era of the human population where things start to plateau and perhaps even slightly decline. There’s better news still, even among our most pessimistic projections we’ll still have enough food, space, and resources to take care of everyone by a comfortable margin. Best of all, reaching the peak human ...

Optimism is far more powerful than you might think. The choice between optimism and pessimism shapes the quality of our lives, our society's decisions, and often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The truth is, there has never been a better time to be alive than now; it's just that it's not the media's job to inform you of this. That's why we're launching Hopepunk—to correct the narrative, offering an evidence-based perspective on why you should be incredibly excited about the future. Welc...