Concepts
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Ideas I refer to and appreciate:

* `Cheeseburger Ethics <https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2024-01-17-09:02.html>`_ - some things are bad, without it being a big deal - it's still good to try to do them less, but you shouldn't consider yourself morally obliged to eliminate them entirely
* `The Galahad Principle <https://notes.jml.io/posts/2019-10-31-07:48.html>`_ - sometimes getting to 100% yields disproportionate value over being at 99%
* `The Starfish Principle <https://blog.doismellburning.co.uk/the-starfish-principle-every-little-bit-helps/>`_ - every little bit helps, and while you may barely make a dent in something on a macro level, you can still have a huge impact for some individuals
* `Universal Greeting Time <http://www.total-knowledge.com/~ilya/mips/ugt.html>`_ - it's always morning when someone says hello online, and always late night when they leave - instead of spending time figuring out what time it is for someone, you can now spend time explaining Universal Greeting Time instead
* `Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think <https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/>`_ - Goodhart's law ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure") is pithy but overly simple - when people are pressured to meet a target, they can work to improve the system, or distort the system or data - you need to make things hard to distort, and give people space to improve the system.
* `The Cube Rule of Food <https://cuberule.com/>`_ - food can be classified based on the location of structural starch