Many people perceive 2018 to have been a bad year, but was it really? By many metrics, it was actually really good. We can’t always fix the world’s problems, but many of the problems we perceive are actually the product of broken interpersonal dialog, but that’s something we can definitely change.

Links:

• More than 50% of humanity is now middle class
• Terrorism is declining
• The Koreas on a road toward peace
• Joel’s latest in the Des Moines Register
• The Gamestop Video (has naughty words)