📩 Letter #19: Feeling less is not feeling better
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You can't avoid it.
Dear Kate, What a wonderful letter you wrote last week about prudence. The word prudence is helpful. It reminds me that there are qualities worth pursuing beyond “successful.” In a section of this interview you shared a few weeks ago, our buddy Michael J. Sandel pointed out the cultural dominance of the word “smart.” Lawyers are smart. Hedge fund managers are smart. Google engineers are smart. Everyone wants to be smart. But when did smart become the only adjective we use to describe a valuable human being? What about prudent? Empathetic? Civic? Considerate? Reasonable? Wise? Industrious?…
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