David Brown

Influencer. Trust me.

[David Brown @ODBrown]

Don’t know this account but I dig the message…

[kepano @kepano]

Choose optimism

Around the age of twenty-two I realized that my worldview had been deeply imbued with pessimism and cynicism. It was the culture I grew up in. A hostility to new ideas, to anything that strays from the norm. An assumption that if things can go wrong, they will go wrong — that malice is pervasive.

One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.

The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting. Pessimism is easy because it costs nothing. Optimism is hard because it must be constantly reaffirmed. In the face of a hostile, cynical world, it takes effort to show that positivity has merit.

To be an optimist, adopt these assumptions:

1. The future can be great
2. People’s intentions are mostly good
3. Ideas are fragile and need nurturing

Every new idea is an unrealized dream. Dreams are delicate and easy to destroy. When an idea presents itself, try to imagine the best version of it — what would make this idea great?

Pessimism and optimism share a trait: both are self-fulfilling. Your intention influences the outcome. Call it karma or, simply, effort. I would rather inhabit a future that has the possibility of being great.

Only optimists can create a great future. Only optimists can imagine it. Only optimists will put in the effort to make it. If you want to create a great future, believe it can happen. Choose optimism.

[David Brown @ODBrown]

Both are great. 1883 was better

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Everyone I know (not really but still) watches Succession.
I know a single person who watches Yellowstone. But that’s because he’s supposed to write about it for a coastal elite publication.
Via @richardrushfield

[Jeremy Barker @PoppedCulture]

Facebook is having trouble appealing to young people you say?

[Chris Jones @EnswellJones]

I was just refereeing a U11 House League soccer game. Boys and girls. Last game of the season. There was a tiny red-faced girl with a ponytail named Emma who was running all over the place. Absolute engine. With maybe 20 minutes left in the game, she scored. EXCEPT—

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“It’s not hard to figure out why we are experiencing a new religion of profound pessimism,” writes @janecoaston about doomerism. “For a lot of people, things seem pretty bad right now.” https://t.co/vmGLGJ6lLh

[Richard Tofel @dicktofel]

We need more journalism about the forest of societal change, perhaps less on the trees of case counts and incremental subvariants https://t.co/wbv5puS8Ez

[craig redmond @craigredmond]

Boy vs. Covid. Good vs. Trump. Woe vs. Wade. A lament for the land of the increasingly unfree https://t.co/S042y5dkl1 via @message_canada

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

being a writer is mostly about wondering if you’re the worst writer to ever exist and then forcing yourself to do it anyway

[On the Media @onthemedia]

The verdict is in and it’s depressing as hell. @RottenInDenmark and @OTMBrooke discuss Depp v Heard on this weeks pod: https://t.co/SpkWPEx624

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

.@supriyadwivedi: The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial provides lessons in tackling harmful content on social media https://t.co/PdpvudRHG1 via @torontostar

[David Brown @ODBrown]

When people get angry on Twitter they take it with them into the real world…

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

I think I have a very different definition of what it means to "fix Twitter" than most people. https://t.co/buwBJgxsjp

[Adrian Bliss @adrianbliss]

When our ancestors left the water

[David Brown @ODBrown]

i understand completely...

[Rachel Bonnetta @rachelbonnetta]

I don’t cry often… but when I do… it’s absolutely over a television show. @1883Official 😭😭😭😭😭

[Chris Jones @EnswellJones]

I know Twitter is not a great place for nuance, but: While I understand that the price of gas is a real concern for a lot of people, gas should probably be more expensive than most beverages, and all of us could maybe give more thought to where it comes from and how we use it.

[Gavin Barrett @ideawallah]

And here is the final #BHM profile I posted yesterday.
Meet Sharla Farrell, Easy Consulting Studio CEO, as she she shares her story and discusses the need for BIPOC in PR https://t.co/fZOtvcW4zn via @message_canada

[Esmy Jimenez @esmyjimenez]

I’m probably gonna die on this boring hill but: we need media literacy to be taught in K-12 and beyond. It needs to be part of how you learn to read and write at this point, how you consume, research, and communicate information. The stakes are too high to wait

[Temur Durrani @temurdur]

If you think the news about Ukraine is overwhelming, that is understandable. But I encourage you to listen to this by @caroloffcbc: “Just bear witness to the struggle of others. That’s as much as the world can ask of you.”