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Future-Proofing Is a Myth. Build Change Fitness Instead

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Most organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it.

In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak makes an uncomfortable argument for anyone who has ever built a five-year strategic plan: future-proofing, as most people define it, is a myth. Complex systems don't behave predictably over multi-year horizons — and the further out you forecast, the more confident the prediction sounds and the less likely it is to be right.

That combination of high confidence and low accuracy is what makes long-range prediction dangerous as a strategic…

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