Some poisons are impossible to avoid

There are poisons all around us. The arsenic in your rice, the drain cleaner under your sink. In addition to actual physical poisons, most of us wrestle with the emotional and spiritual poisons that are dumped in front of us every day. Persistent systems are good at sticking around, and that’s true even when they’re bringing actual poison with them. As we seek to build a more resilient path forward, perhaps it pays to experience the short-term discomfort associated with fixing a dangerous system now rather than living with the poison it creates over time.