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Live Like You Will Need to Adapt

After writing my last piece I got to thinking a bunch about the problem of how to live successfully when you don’t really know what is going to happen. Which, to be clear, is always. It’s clear to me that change is accelerating and thus most of us will be navigating what is a more turbulent world over the coming decades. We aren’t built for that, evolution did not select for brains that handle a rapidly changing society because no such thing ever existed. ...

July 3, 2026 · 13 min · Nicolas Nowinski