Around the World in Ten Dramatic Instincts
Book Review: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think", Flatiron Books, 2018. In recent months I've looked at rules of thumb for thinking more clearly about money and about rare yet impactful events . Today I'm expanding that toolkit of heuristics with Factfulness , a book by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The book has received praise from the likes of Bill Gates and Barack Obama, but I was also keen to read it because I knew about Hans Rosling from his first TED Talk (which I watched years ago in Geography class). And yes, Factfulness was a joy to read. You probably know that climate experts believe that the average global temperature will get warmer over the next century. But did you know that in the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has almost halved? Or that 80% of the world...