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A living map of human hope

Every day, millions of people give their attention to outrage, anxiety, and noise. The Good Index turns five minutes of attention into something better — a measurable ritual of good news, reflection, and emotional renewal.

1,240,915 moments of good indexed — and counting
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The architecture of optimism

Four layers that turn good news into measurable hope

The internet made outrage measurable. We're doing the same for everything outrage crowds out — kindness, progress, recovery, and repair.

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Good News Break

The behavior. A daily five-minute ritual that steps people out of digital toxicity and into verified good news.

The Ritual
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The Good Index

The data. We classify and score constructive good — not just positive sentiment — across sixteen categories.

The Measurement
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WeFeelGood

The visualization. A living, contemplative map of how good news is landing on real people, right now.

The Experience
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Good News Network

The source. One of the original positive news platforms — the editorial standard behind every signal.

The Trust
A thought experiment

What if we upcycled the 1% of every workday that quietly disappears?

Five minutes is almost exactly 1% of an eight-hour day — about the time each of us loses to clearing email, marking things as read, and refreshing feeds. The Good News Break reclaims that 1% and points it at something constructive. Scale it across the workforce, and the numbers stop being small.

5 min/day× 250 workdays× 73,000,000 people= 18.25B breaks / yr
Just youEvery large U.S. employer
For one person, five minutes a day compounds to roughly 104 working days over a 40-year career — about 1% of your working life, reclaimed and pointed at good.
If they all took a Good News Break
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Good News Breaks experienced every year
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hours of attention upcycled / year
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of continuous human attention, redirected toward good
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reflections added to the Good Index / year
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people · five quiet minutes · every workday
each glowing point is a share of the whole · the map grows as more people join
Math: 5 min × 250 workdays × N people. ~73M Americans work for companies with 500+ employees (U.S. SBA / BLS, 2024–2026). Figures illustrative.

“We Feel Fine mapped how the internet felt. The Good Index maps where the world is healing.”

A spiritual successor to the landmark project that visualized human emotion — rebuilt around hope, gratitude, awe, and constructive attention.

For workplaces

Give your team five minutes of good. Watch culture change.

A daily five-minute ritual for healthier attention, stronger culture, and measurable optimism — anonymous by design.

Good News Break

Take five minutes.
Reset your attention.

You're about to step out of the feed. One verified story of good, a moment to reflect, and a small mark left on the Good Index. That's it.

5:00
Today's good news · 3 min read

Why it matters —
Reflection

What did this story make you feel?

There's no wrong answer. Your response is anonymous — it becomes one quiet point of light on the Good Index.

One more thought

What good did this remind you still exists?

Optional — a sentence, a word, or nothing at all.

Done

Your five minutes just became
part of the Good Index.

WeFeelGood · The Good Index

A living map of good

Each point is a verified story of good or an anonymous reflection from someone who took a Good News Break. Hover to listen in, click to open the story. Filter to explore.

Good News Break for Teams

The morale layer for the modern workplace

A daily five-minute ritual for healthier attention, stronger culture, and measurable optimism.

🔒 Anonymous by design — aggregate morale & engagement only. Never individual surveillance.

Team sentiment trend

Share of reflections that were hope-forward, last 8 weeks

Most selected emotions

This week, across completed breaks

Top story categories

What's resonating with your people

Most resonant story

Highest completion + emotional response this week

Weekly Good Index summary —
This week's insight

On the roadmap

Where the Good Index is going

The prototype runs on elegant mock data. The platform is built to scale into the connective tissue of a healthier information diet.

Coming soon

Slack & Teams integration

The daily break delivered where your team already works, with one-tap reflection.

Coming soon

Weekly Good Index reports

Automated culture digests for People & Comms leaders, delivered every Monday.

Coming soon

AI story recommendations

LLM-matched good news tuned to what restores each team — never engagement bait.

Coming soon

The Goodness API

GNN Score classification as a service — for partners building constructive products.

Coming soon

Open-web good signal indexing

Surfacing verified good from local papers, journals, and community posts at scale.

Coming soon

Family-friendly content scoring

A faith-neutral, age-aware rubric so the Good Index is safe for every audience.

The thesis

The internet has made outrage measurable.
The Good Index makes hope measurable.

Good news has always existed. But it's usually scattered — across local papers, scientific journals, community posts, nonprofit updates, and personal stories. It's real, but it's invisible. Outrage, by contrast, is engineered to be seen, ranked, and amplified.

The Good Index organizes those scattered signals into a living map of constructive progress. Not just positive sentiment — constructive good: human kindness, scientific breakthrough, medical hope, environmental recovery, community repair, courage under pressure, second chances, everyday generosity.

The old project We Feel Fine searched the web for the phrase “I feel,” and turned millions of human emotional statements into a beautiful, living weather map of the internet's inner life. It made emotion searchable. It made the collective heart visible.

We loved that. We wanted to build its successor — but pointed at a different question. Not just how do people feel, but where is the world getting better, and what is it doing to the people who notice?

We Feel Fine

An emotional weather map of the internet. It indexed how people felt — scraping “I feel” from the open web and rendering each statement as a drifting, colorful particle.

The Good Index

A hope map for the modern workplace and open web. It indexes where the world is healing, helping, building, discovering, and becoming better — and what that does to the people who pause to notice.

Sixteen categories of good

What the Good Index classifies and scores — powered by GNN editorial standards and a family-friendly rubric.

Turn five wasted minutes into five restorative ones.

Turn good news into measurable hope. Turn attention into evidence that the world is still worth caring about.

Good News Break · Reflection

This is where your five minutes becomes part of the Good Index.