The OG article coining this term by Nick Szabo

Good post explaining the topic in more detail

Nice snippet from JC on this topic:

“I personally am a perennial optimist; a paranoid optimist. I have visions of everything going wrong but I’m an optimist in the end. Most people in the world are relatively sceptical; they are not wrong — most things don’t work. Most people are correctly sceptical. So how do you cultivate unusual optimism? You need to foster a sense an ethos, even given all the iterations, and [ask yourself]: where can this go?”