What matters most is positive impact in the world.
- What matters most is positive impact in the world.
- Often there's a logarithmic curve of principles to scale of impact.
- Would you rather have:
- A 99.99% fidelity outcome of your values, with a thousand users?
- A 99% fidelity outcome of your values, with a million users?
- A 90% fidelity outcome of your values, with a billion users?
- 90% fidelity to important values (e.g. privacy, decentralization, user empowerment) is nearly an order of magnitude better than the status quo.
- The overall impact to maximize is the differential fidelity to your values (compared to the status quo) multiplied by the number of people affected[zv].
- If you don't ship a heavily used thing in the wild then it doesn't matter if it's theoretically perfect, it has no impact.
- Align with pragmatic optimists.
- They see the problem but see how to make things that aren't perfect but make concrete progress and get adopted.
- Don't aim for perfect, aim for good enough with a glide path of continued improvement from there.