Oddbean new post about login | logout What's the saying? A genius is someone who makes something no one thought of before seem obvious in retrospect.
It makes planning for the future somewhat ironic, because the likelihood of any one of us being the genius who will lead an innovation we want to see is fairly low. So the future is literally unimaginable, yet we plan as if it is. As Lowery puts it, the next war will never look like the last war, but we always plan as if it will 🤔