Optimism Scaffolding

I’m generally skeptical about claims of silver bullet solutions to complex problems.

Biological matters—our bodies aging, our brains not always functioning as optimally as we’d prefer—are foggy, multifaceted issues.

Social matters, likewise, are muddled at best, and anyone who claims to have a simple solution to poverty, to pollution, to powering the world is probably either not taking all the relevant variables and research and concerns into consideration, and/or is trying to sell us some...