The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.