Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street

In a Harvard commencement speech called The Trouble with Optionality professor Mihir A. Desai defines optionality as “the state of enjoying possibilities without being on the hook to do anything.” With enough optionality, you can always change what you’re doing in order to pursue something better. Desai critiques students for seeing optionality as ... See more

Optionality is a means to an end, not the end itself. Our obsession with optionality can backfire.