Bias

Your brain is a terrible time traveler. The Exponential Individuals Playbook names the bug: temporal discounting. We shrink the future down to almost nothing so the present can have what it wants right now. Tomorrow's version of you is a stranger, and we are not in the habit of doing favors for strangers. You can watch it run in real time. The snooze button. The cart at checkout. The "I'll start Monday" that has now been said about forty Mondays. Each one is the present striking a deal at the future's expense, and the future is not in the room to object. ...