“[A]ddressing the major problems of our time isn’t about feeling a strong compulsion to do so. It’s about doing it anyway, even when internal compulsion utterly fails to capture the scope of the problems we face. [N]obody gets to comprehend the scope of these problems. The closest we can get is doing the multiplication: finding something we care about, putting a number on it, and multiplying. And then trusting the numbers more than we trust our feelings. Because our feelings lie to us. [T]here is not enough money, time, or effort in the world to do what we need to do. There is only you, and me, and everyone else who is trying anyway. You can’t actually feel the weight of the world. The human mind is not capable of that feat. But sometimes, you can catch a glimpse.”
— Nate Soares, On caring