You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an uncertain future are in opposition to each other. Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory.
Mandy Brown • Against Optimization
“I am a recovering optimizer,” writes Vox’s Sigal Samuel.
For years, she agonized over every decision she made because she felt like she had to do the morally best thing.
“I thought maybe it was just me, an anxious elder millennial with a perfectionist streak. But then I noticed the same... See more
instagram.com“Maximizers make good decisions and end up feeling bad about them. Satisficers make good decisions and end up feeling good.”