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Happy, er, Welcome to 2018!

Happy, er, Welcome to 2018!

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Stowe Boyd
Jan 02, 2018
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I made some predictions for 2018, and with a few exceptions, it doesn’t look that happy. So, instead, welcome to 2018.

I suggested that maybe I should shift my thinking about futures work:

I might be better off thinking about the future adversarially, as if I were wrestling with a shadowed but immensely strong and fanged opponent, instead of looking out o…

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