Speculation is imagination with action
Speculation is imagination with action.No great discovery or advancement happens without the leap of faith that it might be possible and acknowledging that you might be wrong.
Speculation is taking a bet on yourself, on someone, or something that others aren't willing to take. Speculation doesn't mean a bunch of traders in a closed room moving money around. Speculation is an artist backing themselves, funding a scientist's experiments, a community coming together to create a city, or a developer building something that might not work. Speculation at its best is about furthering humanity, it is one of our superpowers. But with that power comes responsibility.
- Part of the responsibility is to make sure that you don't detach yourself or others from reality.
- Part of the responsibility is to acknowledge that you can - and more often than not will - lose.
- Part of the responsibility is to avoid gloating and inducing FOMO in others when you win.
- Part of the responsibility is to ensure that the outcome of your speculation is a better society.
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Speculate where the world can be better, at least that way, if you lose, you know it was worth the shot.