How to prepare for the next decade - by Scott Barker
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A guide to preparing for the most destabilizing chapter in human history
🌒 🌓 🌔 Editor’s Note: This essay blew up (thank you, all) and sparked an incredible conversation. It is part one of a series I’ve been writing, the follow-up essay explores the deeper psychological implications of acceleration: Welcome to edition #14 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about: How we are about to enter a decade of rapid acceleration, the likes of which we have never seen. And ten ways you can prepare yourself to move through it with some semblance of peace and equanimity This newsletter is for anyone who is questioning the endless pursuit of more. Stories about…
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