September 16, 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏

Your daily spark of possibility — one real milestone for change from around the world.

Timor-Leste eliminates trachoma, world’s leading cause of blindness

Trachoma elimination has now reached every corner of WHO's South-East Asia Region, and Timor-Leste — one of Southeast Asia's youngest nations — pushed it over the finish line.

The disease spreads through poverty-linked conditions like poor sanitation and limited clean water, making elimination genuinely hard-won here. A 2025 survey across all 13 municipalities found zero transmission requiring public health action, though individual trichiasis cases will still need ongoing care and sustained funding.

This milestone shows that coordinated global health efforts can conquer diseases once seen as permanent features of poverty.

Updates from Peter 👋

Hi beautiful people,

Something a new friend told me recently surprised me and, honestly, kind of disheartened me for a second there. I was telling her about Antihero Project – my group program for purpose-driven professionals who are struggling to navigate burnout.

She told me the program sounds interesting. But while she felt exhausted and over-committed in her career, she wasn't burned out, per se. So the program might not be the right fit.

To me, exhausted and overcommitted sounds exactly like burnout. Of course, there can be a lot more to it. But chronically exhausted on its own, at least in my mind, qualifies as burnout.

What I'm realizing, though, is that many of us associate burnout mostly with hating our jobs, losing the spark that once drove us. We think of burnout as a kind of spiritual or emotional affliction. A loss of inspiration.

And to be sure, burnout can be and often is that.

But many of the folks I work with love their jobs. Their careers are genuinely inspiring and purposeful. They're not looking for an exit; they're looking for a way to stay in the game for years to come.

They've just found themselves out of balance, giving themselves away to those jobs for so long that it's wearing on them. They know it's time to slow down and let some things go. But they need help. They're stuck in old patterns.

What does burnout mean to you? Are you burned out? If not, what would you call it instead?

Your responses will be a huge help in finding a way to write about this in a way that really lands for people who might need it.

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Burnout & purpose coach, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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