Integrity is a Distinct Kind of Necessary

... and it's not a moral kind

Cleaning up my life has meant doing a lot of work on “Integrity”, a word I’m putting in quotes here because I really want the word to stand out. I want it to stand out because something gets lost in its ordinary usage - we say “this person has integrity” as a kind of moral compliment, seeing integrity as an commendable but optional virtue. By “optional”…