1. “You meet your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.” - Kung Fu Panda, obviously.
2. “All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.” - Charlie Munger (See also the short story, “The Appointment in Samarra”.)

If you had every tool at your disposal, if you had intimate knowledge of every tool you possessed...

If anything you could dream up were possible…

What would you create?

What is your superhuman art?

In the next 10 years, this may be the only question that matters.

Recently I worked with a start-up attempting to build an electric truck that can also ride on rails like a train. Awesome.

They’re doing incredible work, with just four people. Four!? How!?

This is the hallmark of the new era.

Teams will shrink. Small enterprises will go from 10 employees down to 1-4. The quality of these people will be vitally important.

But what a small team will be able to achieve over the next five years will be truly mind-blowing.

Alt title: How often do you check your spam folder?

Our world (and our future) is about hiding the more we’re producing.

We see fewer emails, thanks to spam filters. But the emails are there, we just ignore them.

Each email sent and ignored uses a tiny bit of energy. That energy adds up.

On the surface, we see some simple text on a screen, apparently writing itself.

But underneath? Massive amounts of distant energy are belching out smog to make it happen.

Instead of consuming energy twice, once to send, and once to ignore, I’d love to see a future in which we stop sending the spam in the first place, where our band-aids don’t cause as much of a burden as the problem itself.

A man can dream!

In a land of endless egos like Silicon Valley, it’s a cardinal sin to question the sanctity of a company’s mission internally or externally.

Bad-mouth Apple? Good luck getting invited to their next conference. You’re either in, or you’re out.

But in a world of sycophantic AI and employees who are afraid to tell the emperor she’s naked, ruthlessly ensuring everyone is on board is a poor strategic choice.

Every company needs at least one person who can see the truth and isn’t afraid to call it out.

Pointed, well-intentioned criticism is where all long-term growth begins.