By curatorcat.pal on Skatehive
People talk a lot about setting goals, benchmarking and such things... and I am definitely in agreement that they are important. Our yardstick is often "this year vs. last year" and every now and then people might extend that goal setting out towards five years. Beyond that, the future starts to look increasingly hazy and it becomes much harder to have meaningful visualizations, especially given increasingly turbulent geopolitical scenarios making it much harder to project what might be "important" in the future. Even so, it's pretty common for fresh college graduates to be told that "it's never too early" to start financial planning for retirement. In spite of that advice, we're likely to hear an older person say that and think "oh, come on... that's 40 years away!" But maybe our skepticism actually has a point: Who knows what "retirement" will even look like, in 40 years' time, given the march of automation and AI. What would a person even be retiring from? Meanwhile, dedicated long