While the problems presented are real, the solution proposed is laughable. None of these are new problems. It’s amazing how often we think we’ve discovered something new when it’s really an age-old problem that has been debated forever.
I like to sum it up as the tension between two contradictory yet true axioms:
(1) Failure to plan is planning to fail.
(2) No plan survives contact with the enemy.
You can’t just abandon long term thinking because it’s hard. Grow up. You’re an adult. Life is hard. You still need to have a destination in mind. The path to getting there probably won’t look like the one you planned, but your odds of success are much better when you both have a plan and are ready to adapt and evolve that plan as you go.
That's another great way to put it, but I don't know that I'd say plans are "useless". It's a good adage all the same, as long as we don't take it too literally. (Which, ironically, is a good way to think of any plan, too.)
Long term thinking and planning are different though.
> Grow up. You’re an adult.
Being an adult is also about taking paths that you don’t know where they go, but have enough resources, experience and confidence you’ll make it work somehow. I think your point has merit, but it’s not that solid to match such confidence in it.
In virtually all initiatives, we don’t know where we’ll end up. Not really.
But the best way forward, the best way to set yourself up for success, is to develop a plan based on what you do know. It’s incumbent upon anyone responsible for keeping others employed that we don’t dive into things blindly. We make informed bets, and hopefully we’re right more often than we’re wrong.
I’d like to add that you were far more respectful of me than I was of the OP. I appreciate your respectfulness, and I’ll strive to do better.
I like to sum it up as the tension between two contradictory yet true axioms:
(1) Failure to plan is planning to fail.
(2) No plan survives contact with the enemy.
You can’t just abandon long term thinking because it’s hard. Grow up. You’re an adult. Life is hard. You still need to have a destination in mind. The path to getting there probably won’t look like the one you planned, but your odds of success are much better when you both have a plan and are ready to adapt and evolve that plan as you go.