Recently, I’ve built significant momentum in my life, but I’ve also gained an immeasurably large acceleration that has begun to warp my perception of where I am going. With a new life out west filled with tech and the dry snowy rockies, it’s quite a change from the flat humid bi-seasonal Florida.

I have an intuition of where I might be headed, but I am not there yet to confirm if I will be right. Life is nonlinear, but we often think linearly. It is the human condition that keeps us from building a predictable future, since we are stuck in the present and have only yesterday for comparison and a spotty intuition to handle tomorrow with. All we get is a tangent view of the curve.

Peter Thiel in his “Zero to One” mentions how we must learn to adapt to the exponential nature of our environment in order to preserve ourselves for tomorrow. I’m  not quite sure how to go about doing that without compromising my sanity, but I’m beginning to think that building tomorrow today will look weird to anyone no matter when it is being worked on. Stretching beyond the human tangent and accepting that tomorrow cannot lie anywhere in the context of today could be construed as arrogantly condescending and insanely egotistical in the eyes of tangents. But perhaps it’s necessary for innovation.

In the eyes of tomorrow, building tomorrow is taken for granted, because it is the status quo from which the next tomorrow is built. When tomorrow becomes today, it is no longer what will be, but what was. As odd as it may seem, being visionary, optimistic, persistent, and fortuitous today is what is needed to born a capriciously spoiled tomorrow. People of tomorrow are driving through the night believing that morning will be better than today’s. They are overcome with hope and a burning connection to tomorrow that allows them to shape the rest of today. But at what cost?

It is an interminable battle to reconcile the vision of tomorrow with the near-sightedness of today. And if vision is clouded or misdirected, any misalignment with what will actually come of tomorrow will create a debilitating rift between a visionary and his/her society.