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On Commitment & Optionality - Andrew Rea

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Over the last several months I’ve had multiple conversations with friends about commitment, conviction, and optionality. Those conversations led to this Twitter thread and now this essay. I believe my generation is facing a crisis of commitment. This crisis is especially endemic amongst the young and ambitious. In an age of infinite optionality, we lack the ability to commit to damn near anything — jumping from trend to trend, city to city, hookup to hookup, company to company — seems to be the norm. This unprecedented optionality is rooted in abundance, specifically the abundance created by decades of industrial revolution, globalization, and the internet. Don’t get me wrong. Optionality is not innately bad. For most of human history, we had little in the way of choice. Dinner was dictated by what you could hunt or farm. Dating by who lived in your town or village. Vocation by what your parents did. Today, those of us fortunate enough to be living in developed economies have more choi

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