I really enjoyed this tour through philosophy and ethics. A sitcom writer with a long list of credits (most relevant to this book, the NBC show The Good Place) acts as an amateur philosopher as he walks the reader through increasingly more “difficult/complex” scenarios in determining what is the moral way to behave. He also makes it clear that a “real” philosophy expert is shadowing his work. He begins by outlining several philosophical approaches to “being good” based on Aristotle, Kant, etc. Then he applies that thinking to the scenarios while offering additional philosophical approaches along the way. It’s all written for the layperson and feels modern, contemporary, and definitely left-leaning if you want to apply the political lens. The only criticism was the author’s constant use of footnotes to add humor, color and elaboration – mostly humor. Footnotes appeared on consecutive pages for long stretches. The device wore thin and was annoying to have to stop the flow of reading to shift to the footnotes or to try to remember to read the footnotes when a naturally stopping place emerged in the main text. It’s a nitpick, for sure. I look forward to re-visiting the main points of the text through my readwise highlights.