What’s after abundance?
Better. Our culture doesn’t need more — we need better.
Better leaders, teammates, institutions, language, ideas, myths, heroes, metrics, data, hobbies, food, incentives, mental models, ways to connect, stories, governance, ways to contribute.
Not on the list: money, status, reality TV, sports, advertising, material things.
For most of us, every day begins with a quest for more. We’re all in pursuit of something — ways to amplify our reach, grow our influence, or increase our wallets. However, the pursuit of more often leads us down a blind hallway toward the dead ends we are trying to avoid.
In a world where it’s easy to be cheaper and faster than the competition, more is no longer a competitive advantage — affinity is.
We each have a choice in this matter. We don’t have to operate with the default setting that always, and without question, greedily pays homage to the metric of more.
In a world of abundance, our culture needs better, not more.