I'll strive to be more thankful. Starting with your suggestion here to be more thankful here, since I genuinely believe in the radical power of gratitude. On that note, I listened to the Planet Money 5-episode podcast series on oil, and came away with so much more appreciation for... the crazy dumb luck of fossil fuels. I know that environmental degradation as a result of our exploitation will be a central, pressing problem for probably many generations, but it's the single thing most responsible for the explosion in the rise of standards of living. And it's just so weird to think that zillions of plankton dying and falling to the ground and then compressing and heating up over thousands, millions, hundreds of millions of years turned into the energy-dense fuel we used to power human ingenuity over the last few hundred years.