I’ve always taken “improvement” to mean up, rise, ascend.  On the ladder scale of “improvement”, anything upward moving is considered “good” and anything downward moving is considered “bad”.  For the sake of this argument, anything stationary is also considered “bad” because it’s not going up, which is the expected movement.

If we think about this though, “up” doesn’t always equate with “good” or “progress” or “better”.  “Up” could mean redundant, inefficient, or unproductive operations.  In fact, positive improvement could be down, lateral, or even on another axis.

There is not one direction or one way of achieving “improvement”.  As long as things evolve, in my eyes that’s improvement enough.

Just my two cents, but perhaps I’m crazy.

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