Factfulness
4 people have this book on the record — 3 of 4 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.
The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.
on radex.io · 16 Aug 2026 · Report
uh one is factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. Uh this is a book that just brings global health data to to to the world. It's say the core argument of the book is something like in order to prioritize correctly we need to understand the world accurately. And then for me uh Hans Rosling's site gap minder was one of the things that got me very excited about this work back in 2006.
on a podcast · 16 Dec 2025 · Report
Factfulness is a fantastic book, and I hope a lot of people read it.
on gatesnotes.com · 3 Apr 2018 · Report
More than anything, these books convinced me to work hard to avoid these negativity chambers entirely and aim to only hang out in spaces where people are trying to make things better, instead of delightedly bemoaning that everything is awful.