Good Enough is the Enemy of Better
The Laws of Goodhart, Parkinson and Creation
In the beautiful life video, I had a section based on an article by psychologist Dan Ariely. He talks about CEO's optimising for share price, and professors like him at MIT optimising for the university's teaching equation. My idea was to take beauty as the measure of a good life and to optimise for that.
Last week I was listening to an Ezra Klein podcas…
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