Tell yourself and others that you're and empath and that you're human-centered. Seek out like minds and converse with them about interfaces. Do it lots - for years.
The company I work for seems to be trending toward remote. It feels like a bad trend to me - quality of work is lower. Creativity is lower.
Put me in a room with a few other folks, some whiteboards and some laptops and magic happens. Hanging around the house and chatting on zoom+slack is boring, pathetic and produces no magic.
You see what you want to see. These are not true in my daily life,
1 "Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy."
2 "Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society."
3 "Or, people who are in it for society tend to lose or to get screwed until they give up."
Dial back the doom and gloom mindset. It's an abundant world.
I don't know if the pattern is the same for Toronto and the SF Bay Area.
I simply want a way to rent warehouse space in a light weight way - without signing a two year lease. Always cool to share workspace with like minds too.
The author is confusing positive thinking with blind, without-a-plan, plowing ahead. They're not the same.
Optimism and positive thinking are close synonyms. Positive thinking is the a belief that there is a solution to the problem and that you, as a problem solver, should be open to the paths that lead to the solution.