Katt and I were last night about how everything is at least 10% harder to do when you have no optimism when I realized we've been running under those conditions for about two years now.
It's surprising to realize how optimistic I was a few years ago. I always thought of myself as skeptical and somewhat cynical, but really, I believed that, people, technology, and our system of government would deliver an incrementally better world, despite their many flaws. There were flaws I didn't see at all.