Consensus is nice to have, but we shouldn’t be optimizing h… - David Epstein

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Consensus is nice to have, but we shouldn’t be optimizing happiness, we should be optimizing our decisions. I just had a feeling all along that there was something wrong with the culture. We didn’t have a healthy tension in the system.

David Epstein

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