I recently wrote about taking articles from this blog and collating them into a series of books.
Ostensibly, the books above are short works of non-fiction. With the exception of Luck, however, they’re fictional – in the sense that they don’t technically exist (outside of my mind or this blog).
Today, I want to share What next? – Time travel for fun and profit.
When we make decisions, we help create the future – for ourselves and others.
When we make decisions, we are also speculating about the future. What will the consequences be? Are my decisions likely to result in good outcomes or bad outcomes? What are the probabilities, and what are the potential payoffs?
Embedded in all these decisions are assessments about external factors – what the world will look like in the days, weeks, months, years, and decades ahead.
(Note that all articles are from 2020 or 2021, unless specified otherwise.)
Contents
- Time travel with money
- How to predict the future (2019)
- Future babble: why expert predictions fail and why we believe them anyway (2017)
- Are we on the road to ruin? (2018)
- Planning for multiple futures (2017)
- Planning for a changing future (2018)
- Fun with counterfactuals (2014)
- A good mindset for embracing uncertainty: “strategic flexibility” (2018)
- Small probabilities, big consequences
- Regret is a creative act. Channel your creativity and imagination for good!
- Don't be a bad ass(umer)
- Volatility is inevitable
- When, not if
- NZ Super and uncertainty in retirement planning (2018)
- Kiwis should embrace supermodels (2018)
- Long-term retirement planning and the uncertain future (speculative) (2017)
- Could I have picked this market crash? (March 2020)
- What happens next? (in the middle of COVID-19)
- Plan, but don't over-plan (2019)
- Predict your future! (featuring some personal predictions of my own)
- Some bold predictions [Sonnie Bailey, futurologist (cough, cough, splutter, ahem)] (2019)
If you have any specific thoughts about what might happen in the future, especially in a domain where you have a special interest and expertise, I'd love to hear from you!