C. Thi Nguyen

Oh my God, this is the most beautiful question.

Okay, I gotta think about this.

So, okay, the explicit message

So the explicit message is built around the idea of value capture.

So one of the core ideas of the book is to characterize this thing that I'm feeling and seeing around me that I think a lot of people see and feel.

So value capture is what happens when your values are rich and subtle or developing, and then you get put in an institution or a society or next to a technology that gives you a simplified view.

measure, typically quantified, and then that version takes over.

Like, you know, me going to philosophy for the love of philosophy and then aiming at the rankings.

Or starting to exercise for health and fitness and becoming obsessed with BMI or VO2 max or some other simple measure.

HRV.

HRV.

I didn't even know what this was until pretty recently.

Or...

In education, one of the things that I've become really obsessed with is this gap between wanting to educate students for wisdom, curiosity, reflectiveness, all this other stuff, and then coming...

The institution community focused on a few easy measurables, like speed of graduation and starting salary, which is often opposed to the measures of reflectiveness and ethics.

And so I think the best way to describe the problem of value capture is that when you're value captured...

You're outsourcing your values.

Instead of developing your values on your own, you are taking them off the rack.

You're taking them in a particular formulation that comes from somewhere else, that has other people's interests embedded in it.

There's something I think I'm sure we'll talk about.