Introducing Innovation Ethics
The Center for Innovation Ethics' mission is to rethinking innovation and what it means to invest in innovation.
Why This, Why Now
We stand at a pivotal moment where rapid technological advancements promise both immense opportunity and grave perils for humanity's future. As innovation accelerates, we urgently require new frameworks to ethically steward these capabilities towards justice, not destruction.
For too long, the startup ecosystem has glorified "innovation" as an unalloyed good justifying any pursuit of efficiency, scale or disruption without heeding consequences. But progress defined solely by productivity and financial returns signifies nothing if it decays shared social fabric and planetary health.
The time has come to fundamentally reimagine innovation incentives and ethics. This Substack marks my humble attempt to pose thoughtful questions, share promising models, and provoke imaginative possibilities for aligning innovation with equity and conscience. There exist better paths forward if we dare tread them. I invite you to join me on this journey.
What Community Are We Building?
This space seeks to convene an interdisciplinary community of innovators, investors, activists, academics, philosophers, organizers and change-makers dedicated to building an ethical paradigm for technology and progress.
I envision thoughtful discussion and idea exchange on how our civilization could redirect innovation to expand justice, sustainability, democracy and human flourishing rather than concentrate power and wealth. Commentary will synthesize learnings across ethics, policy, business, technology and social change.
While complex challenges resist easy answers, we retain hope by joining together. Our shared future remains unwritten, awaiting authored by moral hands if we choose to pick up pens in solidarity. All who bring open hearts and fierce wisdom to this cooperative undertaking are warmly welcomed.
What to Expect
I aim to publish short weekly posts exploring vital questions, thoughtful commentaries, provocative ideas, enlightened perspectives, and glimpses of a better future powered by ethical innovation.
Occasional longer essays will delve deeper into analyzing deficiencies in current startup ecosystems and proposing ways to realize the immense potential of innovation guided by care, justice and sustainability.
This multiplayer journey has only just begun. Your reactions, ideas and challenges will be invaluable. Let us travel onwards together with courage.