I remember reading Calvin & Hobbes voraciously as a child, and now, I have the great pleasure of watching my daughter experience it all for the first time.

Calvin was always impetuous and had trouble focusing—probably he’d be diagnosed with ADHD today.

In one panel, Calvin gets mad at his arch-nemesis Susie Derkins for not doing his homework for him. After all, why should he have to do it?

Silly? Ridiculous? Inappropriate?

Or the perfect person for the now-now-now, AI-powered future where no kid understands why they have to do homework at all, when a machine can do it all for them.

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!