Article note: Attn silicon valley: Infinite growth is _not_ required for something to be useful or successful. In fact, infinite growth trajectory usually spells doom.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
— Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”