Open strategies make good sense – you can find people who invite you to use their work, and your work is exposed to more people. In the process, you can contribute to the effort to change an outdated system that is unfair to students and staff, and is an inefficient use of human and financial capital. I understand the need to be realistic, and we can’t pretend that we are living in healthy times as far as institutionalized education is concerned. Sensible, realistic, workable strategies have been developed by others who we can choose to follow. Optimism is a moral imperative.