That noise….
It’s stamped into all of our brains….
For those that need a refresher….
Remember when every single click was calculated in MINUTES?
I remember literally ONLY clicking on webpages that I knew DIDN’T have too many IMAGES on them… otherwise it simply WOUDN’T LOAD!
Crazy…
But you know what struck me today, right between the eyes?
That was the internet, LITERALLY 10-12 years ago.
Think about that for a split second.
Try to transport yourself back 10 years….
And now try to imagine something like UBER…..
Remember, you are 10 years in the past.
Your internet connection is NOT fast…
Fast isn’t even in it’s vocabulary.
Now, try to imagine a car…
Connected to millions of other cars…
That is connected to BILLIONS of people…
Through devices that fit in our pockets….
That track our location instantly…
Perform thousands of calculations instantly…
And deliver a car to us, in under 5 minutes, no matter where we are in the World….
Just honestly put yourself in your old shoes…
And ask yourself…
Would I ACTUALLY have been ABLE to imagine that?
The answer is, OF COURSE YOU WOULDN’T!
Your frame of reference was SO FAR OFF from the exponentially different future, that you LITERALLY couldn’t have conceived of such a thing…
Yet here we are….
Using it…..
There are dozens if not THOUSANDS of examples…..
Netflix
The Amazon Alexa
Zoom
Facetime
You get the idea…..
What I want to propose to you today is this….
This rate of change is SPEEDING UP… NOT slowing down..
It’s exponential….
What I’m saying is that 10 years from now, the World will look MORE different from TODAY, than 10 years ago looked from today…
Does that make sense?
OF COURSE IT DOESN’T! BECAUSE EXPONENTIAL THINGS DON’T MAKE SENSE TO HUMANS!
Don’t believe me?
Let me ask you this….
If you fold a paper in on itself 50 times, how FAR does that paper reach???
Most people will say 2 inches…
Want to know the correct answer?
IT REACHES TO THE FREAKING SUN….
Google it if you don’t believe me…
I stole that analogy wholeheartedly from my number 1 book recommendation, Jeff Booth’s “THE PRICE OF TOMORROW”.
Here’s the link, if you haven’t read it, you are literally missing out WOW it’s bad ->
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Tomorrow-Deflation-Abundant-Future/dp/1999257405
Jeff is also doing a long form podcast series on the “What is Money” show, which inspired this letter -> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-booth-series-episode-1-inflation-opposes-innovation/id1541404400?i=1000517851753
I just wanted to remind all you loyal readers today that most people have ZERO idea about the future.
They don’t even understand the basic concept that technology is moving SO MUCH FASTER THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND….
And its compounding affects will in turn affect our lives, SO MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND.
This might sound dumb, but I think of it like this…
Person #1 (99.9% of humanity) - Never seriously thinks about technology, has no concept of what exponentials even are, much less their implications…
Person #2 - (.0001% of humanity) - still can’t FULLY grasp the changes ahead, otherwise we’d all be billionaires. However, they are actively fighting to LEARN these concepts and use this knowledge to predict future outcomes.
Which group do you want to be in?
If you answered that question about the sun above incorrectly….
(and let’s be honest, we ALL did the first time…)
Then you need to realize, right here right now, that THAT is the same way the future looks to us…
Our understanding of the way technology will affect us is so far off that it hurts me a little bit inside….
So, the ONLY thing we can do is to educate ourselves.
To be ahead of the curve.
And to think about these concepts more deeply.
I REALLY encourage each and every one of you to read that book and maybe check out the podcast as well…
I truly think about the stuff talked about in them DAILY, if not HOURLY.
I think it is going to give me a MASSIVE edge when it comes to investing and entrepreneurship going forward, simply because most people aren’t even THINKING about these concepts, much less UNDERSTANDING THEM.
See you all tomorrow, if this helped you, plz consider subscribing…
Kale
About the Author: Kale Abrahamson has done over $50,000,000 in online E-Commerce Sales and has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, ESPN, & Home Business Magazine. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his beautiful wife Samantha and helps Entrepreneurs start and scale their online businesses + invest the returns.
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