Building on the step of analyzing the circumstances, I find it very helpful to ask the zookeeper question:
If someone was keeping an animal as I am keeping myself, what would I think of them?
“Don’t treat people worse than we treat critters” seems like it should be a low bar, but very often failing the zookeeper test goes hand in hand with failing other tests presented to me by the circumstances. But the zookeeper test has concrete answers for how to resume passing it, which are often more actionable than other tasks.
Building on the step of analyzing the circumstances, I find it very helpful to ask the zookeeper question:
“Don’t treat people worse than we treat critters” seems like it should be a low bar, but very often failing the zookeeper test goes hand in hand with failing other tests presented to me by the circumstances. But the zookeeper test has concrete answers for how to resume passing it, which are often more actionable than other tasks.