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Paul Buchheit: Insights into "Don't be evil"
- ralph 19y agoPaul, originally I heard "do no evil" as the motto, then after a bit it altered into the current "don't be evil". Was it ever the former or was that just Chinese whispers at the time? Personally, I prefer it.
- paul 19y agoNo, it was never "do no evil" -- it just got misquoted a lot.
- mynameishere 19y ago_If you honestly believe that kids are well served by drinking a dozen spoonfuls of sugar every morning before school_ Nope. Nor pron. Nor warez.
- amichail 19y agoCould someone tell me why Google allowed advertising by essay writing companies for such a long time? What happened to "Don't be evil"?
- budu3 19y agoYour evil might not be Larry and Serge's evil.
- amichail 19y agoFor a company that values merit, it seems strange that it would help students to cheat.
- Alex3917 19y agoIf you're into educational theory, you might like Alfie Kohn's book No Contest: The Case Against Competition. It's a really good look at the systemic effects of competition. It touches on cheating among other things. It's funny, these days I find myself mostly reading counter-intuitive stuff. I figure if it's intuitive, I'm probably smart enough to have figured it out already. This book (and his other book, Punished by Rewards) is a really good example of something that just diffs with your current knowledge.
- palish 19y agoWell, could you give an example of an evil product that's being sold right now, that was known to be evil from the start?
- budu3 19y agoI think it's difficult for a company not to be "evil" once they grow to the size of Google. A company of that size has to please too many stakeholders. I think Craigslist is the perfect model of how a company can avoid being evil -- stay small.
- erdos2 19y agoOn the subject of morality, I suggest Bernard Gert's "Common Morality: Deciding What to Do." http://www.amazon.com/Common-Morality-Deciding-What-Do/dp/0195314212/ http://www.amazon.com/Common-Morality-Deciding-What-Do/dp/0195314212/