Had a really inspiring conversation yesterday in an inspiring place (Monticello). The gist is summarized by this post’s title. What does it mean though to be good, not less bad? The difference is similar to local optimization versus global optimization. We spend too much of our time (as individuals, companies, countries) at making small changes to systems that are fundamentally flawed or broken. We need to be more willing to start with values that help us rethink what good would be and then d...

Had a really inspiring conversation yesterday in an inspiring place (Monticello). The gist is summarized by this post’s title. What does it mean though to be good, not less bad? The difference is similar to local optimization versus global optimization. We spend too much of our time (as individuals, companies, countries) at making small changes to systems that are fundamentally flawed or broken. We need to be more willing to start with values that help us rethink what good would be and then d...