With my background in data journalism, I’ve always loved the challenge of finding good ways of communicating numbers. How they compare, how small or how large something is. I’m intrigued by Amanda’s take here: We cannot afford to be bad at grasping large numbers. «Our world is increasingly moving towards extreme values: Damages from climate change, deaths due to genocide, wealth that knows no bounds. And we can’t tackle them if we can’t wrap our heads around the numbers.»

From Weekly Filet #579, in July 2026.