Entrepreneurship

Similar to a Secretary of the Future or Ministry of the Future,

should corporations consider installing a Days Division, a Decades Division, a Centuries Division, or even a Multi-Millenial Division—each designing scenarios and forecasts scaled to different timescapes?

…embarking on imperfect projects to envision far futures is, ultimately, more enlightening than never embarking in the first place.

The greatest business failures often come not from playing the game poorly, but from continuing to excel at things that no longer matter.

-Shane Parrish

Critics arrive before customers.

-Shane Parrish

Everyone knows what works. Few do it after it stops being exciting.

-Shane Parrish

It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder.

-Shane Parrish

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It’s not. It’s about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind.

When the cost of mistakes is high, we’re paralyzed with fear. When the cost of mistakes is low, we can move fast and adapt.

Make mistakes cheap, not rare.

-Shane Parrish

Telling yourself you’ll do it tomorrow is how dreams die.

-Shane Parrish