Is It Better to Be a Determinate or Indeterminate Optimist?

Determinate optimists not only know the future will be better, but believe they know how it will look. Indeterminate optimists know the future will be better, but don’t know how it will look (or how we’ll get there). (The distinction comes from Peter Thiel’s Zero to One).

Bereishit Rabbah teaches that we can’t know the day of our death or the day of our…