"Prioritizing Resilience Over Growth in Strategic Planning"

The author, a software company co-founder, reflects on the traditional growth-focused metrics in the tech industry and questions their relevance in the face of global challenges like climate change. Inspired by David Fleming's book "Lean Logic," the author considers the concept of resilience—defined as a system's ability to cope with shock—as a more fitting goal than growth. The article explores the idea of an analytics platform that measures resilience through community and non-transactional activities, but acknowledges the difficulty in quantifying such metrics. Ultimately, the author concludes that true resilience cannot be captured by data alone and requires genuine human interaction and problem-solving.