# Why I’m a proud solutionist

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Jason Crawford]]
- Full Title: Why I’m a proud solutionist
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/13/1028295/proud-solutionist-history-technology-industry/

## Highlights
- History provides us with powerful examples of people who were brutally honest in identifying a crisis but were equally active in seeking solutions.
- To embrace both the reality of problems and the possibility of overcoming them, we should be fundamentally neither optimists nor pessimists, but solutionists.
- Solutionists may seem like optimists because solutionism is fundamentally positive. It advocates vigorously advancing against problems, neither retreating nor surrendering. But it is as far from a Panglossian, “all is for the best” optimism as it is from a fatalistic, doomsday pessimism. It is a third way that avoids both complacency and defeatism, and we should wear the term with pride.