Vika Krieger

And so it wasn't really my job to tell people what the right answer was, even though most people wanted me to just tell them, they're like, what should we do?

And I'm just like, well, like, let's actually frame up what the trade-offs are and help you make an intentional decision about what you're going to prioritize.

But it's funny, I mean, that does sort of sound like

Well, it's interesting, because of course, I had to be like, very careful, like not to like bring religion into the room with, you know, like, I'm not going to like proselytize people, you know, but like, I think there was this sense that it was spiritual work.

And like, people would often like jokingly call me like Facebook rabbi.

You know, they would just be like, hey, Rabbi, I need some advice, you know, on this stuff.

And so, and I do think there is like a link between how I practice now as a rabbi and how I practiced like the responsible innovation work I did at Facebook, which is like, even now, like in a spiritual leadership role, people come to me all the time and they're like,

what should I do?

You know, my husband's having dementia and I want to put him in a nursing home because I still want to live my life.

Like, what should I do?

And I'm like, it's not my job actually to tell you what the right thing to do is.

It's like, I can help you frame up what values are at play here.

I will walk beside you and give you some tools, give you the confidence to trust your own moral compass, but I'm not going to like loan you my moral compass.

Oh, totally.

Yeah.

Like, and especially engineers.

They're just like, dude, like we got, we got lines of code to write.

Yes or no.

What should we do?

No.