Book Club: Reversing the effects of negative news

Koné Consulting’s book club is in full swing. We’ve started reading Steven Pinker’s “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,” offering an uplifting case for optimism, something many of us desperately seek as we are bombarded with news of a world in turmoil.

Chapters such as Health, Sustenance, Inequality, and the Environment fall under the promising heading, Progress. Data geeks will rejoice in the charts and graphs, while devotees of history and prose will appreciate the qualitative examples throughout.

Steve Pinker’s TED2018 talk, “Is the world getting better or worse: A look at the numbers” offers a glimpse at what his book is all about.

Stay tuned this Spring/Summer for an Enlightenment Now visual one-pager (if you don’t have time to read the whole book) from our talented friend, Todd Clarke, who created our visual one-pagers Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, based on the book of the same name, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Sharfir, and $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, based on the book of the same name, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. For more amazing visual one-pagers, see Todd’s webpage.

If you’d like to join us on our reading journey, please comment below!