Dubito – Making good more doable
This year, I will be sharing snippets of my vision on how to ‘make good more doable’ on a weekly basis. Below, you can find the latest and most fundamental posts, and on this page, you can find a chronological overview of all published posts so far.
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Rosetta: Three ways of looking at good
There are three ways of looking at ‘good’. It’s important to recognise which is dominant and which might need activation. In the year 1799, the army of Napoleon invades Egypt from the Mediterranean. How it happened exactly is not clear, but at some point, they stumbled upon an interesting looking stone. It turned out that…
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Rules are default
Rules are flawed, but still our default approach. In most societies, the default way to talk about what is right or wrong is through rules and regulations. We have tremendously detailed descriptions about what we think is allowed or not, written down in countless volumes of regulations. While this often proves to be very valuable…
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Exercise: Make your own ‘good-cloud’
Step 1: Start by making a good-cloud Using a blank sheet of paper, just randomly write down words describing what is worth striving for in work and life in general, much like in the figure of the post ‘Good is a fuzzy concept‘. They don’t have to specifically relate to your preferences, but should reflect…
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Good is a fuzzy concept
Good can be seen in different ways and is therefore hard to recognise or discuss. This post is part of an introduction to the concept of Rosetta. One reason why discussion about what is right or wrong doesn’t always have the effect it deserves is that it is so hard to agree on what good…
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Introducing Rosetta: Making good more doable by learning to recognise it
‘Good’ often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This needs to change. The next couple of months (February – June), my posts will focus on learning to recognise opportunities to do good and avoid bad. To ‘make good more doable‘ (my mission), we should start by focusing our attention on what ‘good’ is, and in…
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It’s only a model
Regulation provides a static solution for a dynamic problem If you argue that different sets of rules often aim at governing situations that are part of the same system, you will agree that these sets of rules will need to be adaptive to one another in order to be effective. If rules are developed and…
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Scared of the dusk
We should be working on alternatives to regulation Next to the fact that the amount and complexity of regulation is increasing, there is a risk that it is getting less effective too, making the problem exponentially bigger. If we, as a citizen or employee in a company have more ways to do things and options…
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Regulation is too complex
Asking people to do good simply by complying to regulation is unreasonable Our way to make sure we keep doing the right thing is under pressure. Our society relies heavily on our legal and justice system to make sure people know the rules and follow them. We make ever more complex regulations to govern the…
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Regulation is in chaos
The amount of regulation is increasing and getting more complex and dynamic You could argue that the world as we see it is getting more complex every day. As a result of internationalisation and information technology we see more of the world every day, and every day we get more connected with it. This obviously…
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Basic considerations
Asking the right questions on the moments that matter helps to make good more doable. Once we are aware of an opportunity to do good (see previous post), and we have the time to pursue this opportunity, we are ready to consider some key questions that can help us properly recognise good and move on…