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ignore the number and size of your debts entirely, and simply funnel your money toward the debt with the single highest interest rate.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Optimism is unfashionable today, particularly among intellectuals. Everyone makes fun of it. Someone said "Pessimists got that way by financing optimists." But I am not pessimistic and I advise you not to be. As the fellow said, "I'd be a pessimist but it would never work."
John Gardner • Personal Renewal
This is optimism, and it is not the same as hope. Hope is an emotion, a yearning, the experience of which is not entirely within our control. Optimism is a cognitive stance, a conscious expectation, which presumably anyone can develop through practice.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
extraordinary scope of their optimism. They have an enormous sense of self and individualism. They’re very “me” oriented.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits

For the team at Atlassian, the “optimistic” principle is embodied in an “optimistic interface.14” In JIRA, for example, when a user has to move a card from “In progress” to “Done,” cards are allowed to be moved right away, providing an instant response to the user, even though in the background there are a lot of checks and validations, and many
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