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How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138

aired Apr 17, 2026 · 31.0m
Signal
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Solid
confidence 0.98
Orig58.0
Actn75.0
Dens69.6
Dpth53.5
Clty82.1
Summary

Good morning, friends. If you followed the great simplification for any length of time, you have probably noticed that we cover a lot of different topics, energy and geopolitics and ecology and increasingly AI and economics and mental health and food and governance and plastics and nuclear, meaning, community, pretty much everything that I think relates to the unfolding more than human predicament.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of future, because, think, including: This is the first episode in a new series I'm calling how to think about the future.

Key takeaways
  1. 01The first thing I wanna talk about is something that I've been watching with increasing frustration over the past few weeks because it's the part most people in leadership and the
  2. 02So we're seeing because of the Hormuz situation, this chain of relationships unfold right now
  3. 03Decisions compound infrastructure that gets built for one energy system, and then it becomes expensive to rebuild for another
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