CAPSULE | READS: What We Owe the Future
Key takeaways on: Paradoxes, Plasticity & Priorities.
ON PARADOXES: We must live with paradoxes — over time the forces of evolution would dictate how the future goes.
ON PLASTICITY: The model views that shape society is like molten glass that can be blown into many different shapes.
ON PRIORITIES: To decide on which issues to solve, consider their importance, analyze how neglected it is then create metrics to measure impact.
We must live with paradoxes — if we wish to avoid paradoxes, an entire laissez faire approach would not be possible. Over time the forces of evolution would dictate how the future goes.
We are living through a period of plasticity — the model views that shape society is like molten glass…but the glass is cooling.
Theoretical Concept to Ponder
Long term-ism
> the concept that questions how we should prepare for long term future
3 Lessons to guide / influence long term-ism
- Take good action
- Try to increase the number of options open to us
- Try to learn more
Priorities to focus on
- decide which problem to work on
> close to heart?
> high-impact actions?
> values?
> end of civilization?
> clean-tech innovation? - consider the issue’s importance
> trackability (creating metrics)
> neglectfulness (if you work on more neglected problems, you can make more impact)
How to act
- learn
- build options
- do good
Introducing Reads as a capsule in the Learn Segment. Each week for the remainder of the year, we’ll be extracting key takeaways and notes from 26 books read in 26 weeks as a practice to nourish learning. Join us in the (re)wiring!
