Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Three years from now may never come.

“I don’t want to be ‘locked into’ company A because company B may have a better offering in three years. We need to be able to shift to company B.”—a well-meaning advisor.

In three years, the world may be different. Let’s remain agile. Let’s keep the ability to move in a different direction.

True, the world may be (probably will be) different in three years. True, it would be good to be able to shift direction then. True, agility is good. True, true, true.

What may not be (and probably will not be) true is that what we know today is relevant to the future of three years from now.

Who predicted 2020 back in 2017? Huh, well, anyone? But 2020 was an extreme case. True, but “extreme” is a relative term, and we will probably think that 2023 was an extreme case.

Hence, while looking to the future is good, it is easy to over rate it. Let’s do something today, now, and gain what we may today, now. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own (I seem to have read that somewhere in a good book).