Long-Term Thinking in Unstable Times

Now, I'm not romanticizing long-term thinking. It's not glamorous. It doesn't look

impressive on social media. In fact, in good times, long-term thinkers

often look wrong. They hold extra cash just in case, while everyone else is maximizing returns.

They keep investing in boring fundamentals when everyone else is chasing the hot new thing.

They keep learning the hard skills that age well instead of optimizing for whatever's trending

this month. They look too conservative, too slow, too cautious. And then instability

hits. Suddenly, the people who took every shortcut are overexposed.

The companies that optimized every last cent of efficiency have no buffer. The teams that only