Sunday: Panel on optimism with Tammy Winter & Trevor McKendrick

Next class of Progress Studies for Young Scholars starts July 6, apply now

Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online summer program in the history of technology for high schoolers and up, is getting great reviews:

Next class starts Monday, July 6. Scholarships are available. Apply today: https://progressstudies.school/

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Sunday: Doing Better at Staying Optimistic with Tamara Winter and Trevor McKendrick

Sunday, June 28, 12 noon Pacific time. Register here

How important is optimism for human progress? Have we become less optimistic in our society? Why, and how can we get it back? What does it mean to be optimistic in your own life? And how can we—indeed, why should we—stay optimistic when so many terrible things are going on all around us?

In this panel discussion, Tamara Winter and Trevor McKendrick will join me to discuss these questions and more. Part of my “Doing Better” series hosted by the Interintellect.

Purchase tickets on Eventbrite.

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Video: Max Roser on data-driven optimism, how to analyze COVID-19, and more

The Torch of Progress, Episode 4

I talked to Max Roser for the fourth episode of “The Torch of Progress”, the speaker series of Progress Studies For Young Scholars. Topics include:

• Why Our World in Data is known as “the good news guys”

• How most people are pessimistic, but the data is optimistic

• Right & wrong ways to use data to understand COVID-19

Audio/podcast version on SoundCloud.

Upcoming events (all times Pacific):

• Deirdre McCloskey: Thurs, July 2, 10am

• Joel Mokyr: Weds, July 8, 10am

• Noor Siddiqui: Weds, July 15, 10am (registration link coming soon)

• Anton Howes: Weds, July 22, 10am (ditto)

And more after that, including Danica Remy of the Asteroid Institute.

And yes, I will get back to writing notes and essays about progress soon, stay tuned.