What will still matter in 10 years?
So many emails, tweets, and books. So little time.
How to choose what to read?
What’s a good information filter?
In the investment world, focusing on long-term returns (with 5-10 year horizons) is a well-established strategy. When reading, we also invest – not necessarily money, but our attention. We have a limited resource and allocate it across a near infinity of options. Who we are in 10 years will be largely determined by the compounding effect of such daily investments.
So similarly to an investment horizon, we can think in terms of an information horizon. Will a topic still be relevant in 2, 5, 10 years? How about 50?
This newsletter focuses on the 10-year horizon. This filters out noise such as current politics, weather and just about 95% of everything else. It’s meant to work as a noise reducer.
The posts are short, infrequent, and irregular. They contain a few links and thoughts that passed the filter. Sample topics:
Books (worth reading sometime in the next 10 years).
AI, data, analytics (will shape our civilization more than politics).
Mental models (will influence our trajectory more than hacks).
Paradigms (will shape our trajectory more than trends).
The psyche (the place we’ll all be at in 10 years).
Nature of time and reality (do we have to wait 10 years?)
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