HeyJaredIt's not all bad...
My personal Substack on making sense of the world, thinking about the future, writing and reasons to be optimistic
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I recently had the good fortune to attend the 12th Annual Asia Pacific Foresight Network (APFN) Conference in Bangkok. The theme was “Powering People, Planet, Prosperity and Peace. It was one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended. From the diversity of participants to the number and variety of sessions offered, it was quite a delicious banquet from which to learn.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JLqr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
Unintended Consequences and Tradeoffs (opens the original)
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This Substack is about two things that annoy me because they get in the way of making better decisions: failing to think through unintended consequences and refusing to face up to tradeoffs.We all want better decisions: those that are good for today AND over the longer term – helping to create plausible futures that we prefer. We need to think about what a preferred future might look like. That means thinking about what might change, what might stay the same and what decisions would move us towa
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