Upworthy’s Quest to Engineer Optimism for an Anxious Age
Upworthy’s Quest to Engineer Optimism for an Anxious Age
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 2, 201711m 13s
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Show Notes
The world finds itself in an age saturated with anxiety—at least, that’s the sense created by the daily deluge of news portraying a grim present of economic hardship, global tensions, terrorism, and political upheaval. The five-year-old site Upworthy doesn’t want you to see the world that way. At one time, if Upworthy was known at all, it wasn’t for its mission, but for its attention-gathering headlines.
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