A man with only a single virtue cannot think well. Effective < effective and elegant. Kind < kind and measured. We need our balances.
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Because the thinking required for these balances is so much closer to the real nature of the world than single pointed focus. We need choice
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I'm not sure what my virtues are right now. I'm certainly attached to gracious. Gracious/hospitable is a core for me. It's one of my anchors
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I think the other anchor might be "relentlessly ambitious." That one is a lot harder to live up to: make no small plans. Get each pass right
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Ambitious and gracious seems a mile away from the ascetic and committed which was basically my old system of virtues. But times have changed
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When solar transformation in inevitable and only science can save us from bad engineering, ambition is just the will to accelerate change.
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And graciousness is simply putting incidentals aside so what matters can be discussed freely. A good welcome puts people at ease.
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I don't know how technologists got so far without evolving some kind of an effective discourse around vakues answer virtues. These are mine.
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Far more inclined to believe it's simply outside parameters most of them are comfortable operating within.