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Where in your life have you quietly settled on a single story about the future? Which of the essentials you rely on would be hardest to rebuild if they fell below a threshold? And how might the decisions you make this week change if you held more than one plausible future in mind at the same time?
That's a YT link but he has an audio-only version. My intro was this, which was a much denser and intense breakdown of how to systemically think about the discrete challenges faced in any potential scenario which was a bit of a firehose to absorb but still fascinating and (positively) provocative.
