What We Owe The Future - by Anthony Pompliano

Pomp's personal notes on William MacAskill's new book

To investors, I have been reading one book per week this year. This past week’s book was What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill. Highly recommend reading it. If you are interested in the individual highlights that I made in the physical book, you can read those here. Hope you enjoy these notes every Monday morning. This book argues the idea of longtermism, or a belief that present day humans have a moral obligation to make decisions which will benefit future humans that could be hundreds, thousands, or millions of years away. It is written by an Oxford philosopher and has a mix of…

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