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So yes, best idea wins, but even more important than that is to create a culture where everybody agrees what the best idea is.
Dissent was now seen as not just snarky, but unpatriotic. We had never gotten death threats before.
If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.
In the writers’ room during meetings I was always knitting, and I got a reputation for saying the most dark, horrible things, but as long as I was knitting I could get away with them.
Most of us are not someone’s first choice. But that doesn’t mean we can’t end up being the best choice.
Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more efficient or effective. They just want all those things to reinforce their partisan, ideological, conservative viewpoint.
