It didn't hurt that XQ was the first major education investment by the Emerson Collective, LLC, which was established by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, or that the media team behind it projected
a relentlessly upbeat tone, focusing on the possibilities rather than the obstacles.
Directly behind me, an honourably earnest father narrated the events of Korea - Gabon to his children in a
relentlessly chipper and
upbeat tone, despite almost nothing of note happening.