Learnings from Stanford GSB Classes

See notes organized by class below:

Formation of New Ventures

We took Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Test; my top three moral values are: loyalty (defined as concerns regarding loyalty to others, self-sacrifice, and patriotism), care (concerns regarding care and protecting individuals from harm), and proportionality (a psychological motive for rewards and punishments to be proportionate to merit and deservingness and benefits to be calibrated to amount of contribution). I was surprised I was not as high in equality (a psychological motive for balanced reciprocity, equal treatment, equal say, and equal outcome). I suspect it is because of the last part there: equal outcome. I think that is a dangerous expectation in many settings.
I believe the individual is the elemental unit of society. We all have different experiences and identities that shape our beliefs and definitions of what a good life is. We can voluntarily form groups around these identities and beliefs. This is all good, so long as we engage with those different than us productively (vs. trying to fit our beliefs onto others). Remember to see the individual; regardless of group affiliation, we are all more similar than different.
I am a believer in free speech and am skeptical of any form of censorship; society benefits from a higher quantity and rate of turnover of ideas, even if we disagree with some of them.