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Distributed Virtue

The Nine Virtues

Nine questions a machine cannot answer for you, one lesson each.

By the end — You can name which virtue a decision needs and what it asks of you.

  1. 1

    Wisdom

    V01

    The gap between a good answer and the right decision.

  2. Preparation is not the act, and it is a comfortable place to stop.

  3. Optimising for the people already in the data leaves out the people who never got in.

  4. A summary is not the same as having listened.

  5. Sounding informed arrives faster than being informed.

  6. Being able to produce something is not a reason to send it.

  7. Polish can make an unverified claim look sourced.

  8. New capacity goes somewhere. Decide where before it is spent.

  9. 9

    Hope

    V09

    Optimism that never becomes a step is just a mood.