One of the worst parts about social media is the way it seems to optimize for the most cynical point of view. I’m mostly an optimistic person! Social media infects me with doubt and fear. But you have to be optimistic about the future in order to really believe you can change it.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I’ve always thought of my probably undiagnosed ADHD as a bad thing — after all smart people are always multitasking! What’s wrong with me that I can’t do that? Recently though I’ve thought of it as more of a warning from my brain — do not focus on too many things at once.