Living in the Present, Issue 130

2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter

Issue 130, October 12, 2023

We’re picking up on a theme we’ve been hearing recently. It’s not exactly a new idea, but it resonates as we are challenged by living in an increasingly disruptive and disturbing world.  It is, quite simply, living in the present.

Professor Scott Galloway (love him or not) has increasingly peppered his critical commentaries with the realization that his career has been defined by planning for the future informed by the past.  His existential question is “Was I ever really here?” He wonders if he was ever in the now, the here, the moment.

It’s a good question to ask yourself when under pressure to outperform, out-innovate, and out-compete.  If we are constantly scenario planning for an uncertain future and judging ourselves on the past, to Galloway’s question, are we really here in the moment?

So,  we’re taking a slight departure from many of our recent newsletters. We’re exploring the paradoxical nature of living in the present, and we went to an inventor, arti…