IMO you’re an optimist. I haven’t read the whole article, but would you believe I just looked up the difference between ‘pessimist’ and ‘skeptic’ on dictionary.com (before checking my email, seeing your activity on linkedin, and deciding outright to pay you a compliment, somehow)?

according to the dictionary, a pessimist is a habitual fault-finder, rather than a skeptic who would be a perpetual fault-finder. A contrarian in this context is the person who asks innocent questions. Because the weather is so rough, doom and gloom are now the seeming norm, and the contrarian view is asking questions about the outcome. somewhere a poet wrote about it, ‘the day the madmen become sage’ or something like that.

anyhow, i saw that 37signals had, at one point, borrowed a tweet of yours for their homepage. i think that’s the compliment.

have a good one! cheers