# Sustainability and Maintaining Systems **Conversation with Danvers** Sustainability is choosing to manage an ecosystem that you are adequately resourced to steward. - "manage an ecosystem" - - "adequately resourced to steward" - what resources do you have that you can use in stewarding. - [[Growth is a poor goal for economic success]] ## Agility and sustainability need to go together Sustainability is systems thinking. - Take into account externalities. - See all parts of the system. Agility allows you to adjust. ## Maintenance - Doing work to prevent things from breaking rather than just fixing the things that are already broken. See [[Sustainable versus Extractive]] #work/notes