May 13, 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏

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​Landmark Kenyan ruling overturns seed-sharing ban, defends farmers’ rights​

Kenya's High Court has thrown out a law that could have sent farmers to prison for up to two years simply for saving or sharing seeds from their own harvests.

The court ruled that criminalizing a practice Kenyan smallholders have relied on for centuries violated their rights to life, livelihood, and food. UN human rights experts welcomed the December 2025 decision and credited the farmers, Indigenous communities, and civil society groups who spent years building the case. They're now urging courts in other countries to follow suit, since similar restrictive seed laws have spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

It's a powerful reminder that food sovereignty — and the crop diversity our climate-stressed future depends on — often begins with the people quietly tending the land.

More of Today's Good News

• Electric concrete mixers are booming in China, hitting 70% of new sales
• ​University of Washington researchers map little free pantries with new app​

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You've read the good news. Now, start making your own.

You are not going to finish your to-do list

I recently spoke with a prospective Antihero Project member. We were talking about to-do lists. We are constantly striving to get to the end of the list. We feel incomplete and unsuccessful when we don't.

The problem is: we never get to the end of the list. The list never ends. We cross one thing on the list, and two seem to appear as if by magic. This is not a personal failure. It's like the mail. It just keeps coming.

And so, reserving a feeling of success and satisfaction until we get to the end perfectly sets us up for a constant feeling of failure or dissatisfaction. This is because we don't trust ourselves to keep moving forward unless we hold ourselves in some sort of deficit.

The client mentioned a practice that works better: the "I did" list. She tries to end each day not by counting what didn't get done, but by acknowledging what did. In this way, we focus on the realities that help us build a true sense of success and momentum. And what follows from that is more success and momentum. It creates a virtuous cycle that propels us forward.

I love that. Turns out, constantly reminding ourselves of all we didn't do, constantly holding ourselves in deficit, doesn't create a sense of success or momentum. So we can practice simply celebrating the actual wins instead.

That's the basic logic behind sharing good news. By focusing on what's working around the world, we remind ourselves that change is possible — and then we get to work.

The same applies to your day.

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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