Commitment is one of the most praised traits in professional and personal life. It is also one of the most effective ways to avoid ever having to admit you were wrong. What we call staying committed and what we call refusing to update are often the same behavior, dressed in different moral language.
Humility is a virtue. Performed humility is a strategy for avoiding accountability — and most of what passes for humility in professional and social life is the latter, dressed up in the language of epistemic virtue.
Empathy is not the moral compass we've been told it is. It's a spotlight—brilliant where it points, leaving everything else in darkness—and our culture's elevation of empathy as the highest virtue may be making our collective decisions systematically worse.