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.
The internet made outrage measurable. We're doing the same for everything outrage crowds out — kindness, progress, recovery, and repair.
The behavior. A daily five-minute ritual that steps people out of digital toxicity and into verified good news.
The RitualThe data. We classify and score constructive good — not just positive sentiment — across sixteen categories.
The MeasurementThe visualization. A living, contemplative map of how good news is landing on real people, right now.
The ExperienceThe source. One of the original positive news platforms — the editorial standard behind every signal.
The TrustFive 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.
A spiritual successor to the landmark project that visualized human emotion — rebuilt around hope, gratitude, awe, and constructive attention.
A daily five-minute ritual for healthier attention, stronger culture, and measurable optimism — anonymous by design.
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.
There's no wrong answer. Your response is anonymous — it becomes one quiet point of light on the Good Index.
Optional — a sentence, a word, or nothing at all.
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.
A daily five-minute ritual for healthier attention, stronger culture, and measurable optimism.
The prototype runs on elegant mock data. The platform is built to scale into the connective tissue of a healthier information diet.
The daily break delivered where your team already works, with one-tap reflection.
Automated culture digests for People & Comms leaders, delivered every Monday.
LLM-matched good news tuned to what restores each team — never engagement bait.
GNN Score classification as a service — for partners building constructive products.
Surfacing verified good from local papers, journals, and community posts at scale.
A faith-neutral, age-aware rubric so the Good Index is safe for every audience.
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?
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.
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.
What the Good Index classifies and scores — powered by GNN editorial standards and a family-friendly rubric.
Turn good news into measurable hope. Turn attention into evidence that the world is still worth caring about.