Frank Massey
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Tech, AI, and social media writer with a passion for storytelling. I turn complex trends into engaging, relatable content. Exploring the future, one story at a time
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The Island That Learned to Listen: How a Small Community Beat Suicide with a Question
The inspiring story of the Gotland suicide prevention model, where a community lowered suicide rates not with more hospitals, but by training everyday people to break the silence of isolation.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Last Voice in the Room: The Man Who Caught a Civilization on a Cassette Tape
The poignant true story of how linguists and Indigenous elders in Australia raced against time to record dying languages, proving that preserving a voice is preserving a world.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Town That Stopped Worrying: The Forgotten Experiment That Proved Poverty Is Just a Lack of Cash
The incredible true story of the "Mincome" experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba, where a guaranteed basic income in the 1970s led to better health and education, only to have the data hidden for 30 years.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Third Option: The Nun Who Stood Between the Machete and Its Target
The harrowing true story of Antonia Locatelli, the Italian volunteer who sacrificed her life in Rwanda to protect the hunted and expose the early stages of the genocide to a silent world.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Savior of Mothers: The Doctor Who Was Destroyed for Washing His Hands
The tragic true story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered the cause of childbed fever and the importance of handwashing, only to be rejected by the medical community and die in an asylum.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Translator of Death: How a Statistician Saved Millions by Simplifying the Math
The untold story of how Bangladesh revolutionized disaster preparedness, turning complex weather data into simple, actionable warnings that reduced cyclone death tolls by over 99%.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Savior of Mothers: The Doctor Who Was Destroyed for Washing His Hands
The tragic true story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered the cause of childbed fever and the importance of handwashing, only to be rejected by the medical community and die in an asylum.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Camden Experiment: How a City Fired Its Entire Police Force to Save Itself
The true story of how Camden, NJ, dismantled its corrupt police department and rebuilt it from scratch, leading to a historic drop in violent crime and a new model for community policing.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Map of the Dead: The Scientist Who Predicted the Apocalypse and Was Ignored
The devastating true story of the 1985 Armero tragedy in Colombia, where warnings from scientists about the Nevado del Ruiz volcano were ignored, leading to 23,000 preventable deaths.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
The Ghost in the Asylum: The Psychiatrist Who Disappeared to Save Minds
The untold story of Dr. Stanislav Grof, a psychiatrist behind the Iron Curtain who pioneered radical trauma therapies, defied the communist regime, and accepted exile and obscurity so his life-saving techniques could survive.
By Frank Massey about a month ago in Motivation
