“It Won’t Happen to Me”
Optimism Bias in the Face of a Pandemic
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9 min readApr 9, 2020
The San Antonio riverwalk was most beautiful in the early morning before it became overly populated with tourists, sailors and shoppers. It was my last morning there and I wanted to enjoy one more walk along the river before my noon flight. I was a tourist in a certain sense. But the trip had been mostly business for me, conducting user research with the…
