long-term thinking

musings on long-term thinking in a shortsighted world. we overestimate what we can do in a year, underestimate what we can do in 10 kinda thing.

Juan Orbea and

All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a little bit better so you can survive the war of attrition.

Sean Cannon

Seth Werkheiser

The Ungated Manifesto

Rob Hardy ungated.media

Emilie Kormienko

sari azout • Tweet

sari

Why So Many of the World’s Oldest Companies Are in Japan

bbc.com bbc.com

alex

sometimes people ask something like “do you think this could work?” and I sorta waffle around on it but I realize my truer answer is something like: it’ll probably work IF *you* believe it will work and *you* commit to making it work for 7+ years

Visakan Veerasamy x.com

Alara

Thousands of people will want to start a Substack or podcast. Something like 1% of them or less will stick with it consistently for 2+ years. If you commit to things for 10+ years, you develop what appear to be superpowers

alex

The Scarcity of the Long-Term

Kevin Kelly kk.org

andrea

it is important to have projects on the scale of an entire life rather than months or years

andrea

Against longtermism

Émile P Torres aeon.co

Tony Lashley