Picked by Bill Gates for his summer reading listRecent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way backChris Anderson the head of TED believes that we can turn outrage back into optimism. It all comes down to reimagining one of the most fundamental human virtues generosity. What if generosity could become infectious generosity Consider how a London barber began offering haircuts to people experiencing homelessness and catalysed a movement how two anonymous donors gave 10000 each to 200 strangers and discovered that most recipients wanted to pay it forward with their own generous acts how TED itself transformed from a niche annual summit into a global beacon of ideas by giving away talks online allowing millions access to free learningIn telling these inspiring stories Anderson offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts whether gifts of money time talent connection or kindness and to prime them thanks to the Internet to have selfreplicating worldchanging impacts.