![]() Life is a baby trying to escape when you’re cleaning her poop, it’s the look of complicity in the eyes of a friend who understood your private joke, it’s a friend you meet for the first time in 10 years and with whom you continue the last conversation where you left it, it’s pausing to celebrate with your colleagues the work well done, it’s the first ray of sun on your skin that makes you realize spring is finally here, it’s the moment you lay down in bed at night, cover yourself with a quilt, and wait for warmth to build up on your cold skin it’s a smile in the middle of sorrow, sorrow in the middle of smiles. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plansġ. It’s what happens on the path towards them. ![]() But this fulfillment, which emanates from long-term thinking, can hide something even more precious: the little moments along the way.Įvery now and then, somebody needs to remind me that life, by and large, is not just all these grand plans we have for the future. ![]() It’s refreshing to get the head out of the sand, think hard about the big problems that matter to humankind, and try to act on them. The fact that you read my thoughts, share them, comment on them, correct me, and even, some of you, pay for them, is an unbelievable gift. I’m trying to build with you here a little island of sanity in the archipelago of long-term thinkers, away from the mainland of short-term thinking. Wow.Įvery day, we drown in the daily rush of news and data points and gossip and current events. It’s been a year since I started Uncharted Territories.
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