Relative to any other time on Earth, technological advances have made it easy for most people to meet their more basic, shorter-term needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. For this reason, and others, it’s thinking about the longer-term that produces a more nuanced conversation.
People are not naturally build to think this way. That, I believe, contributes to why Patrick Collison once said, “There’s something quite deep about the notion of using time horizons as a competitive advantage.”
The Longterm Collective is a platform to explore this notion. Unsurprisingly, Charlie Munger may have said it best:
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up, and boy, does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you. Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading. Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
Charlie Munger
Making this learning public invites collaboration. This in turn increases the opportunity to learn through hearing varied perspectives.
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