Future Here Now: Future-Proof or Future-Ready?

Future Here Now: Future-Proof or Future-Ready?

Note: I screwed up.  I was at the American Planning Association Conference earlier this week in Philadelphia, and I made two mistakes:

1) I had the first two segments for this week written, but got busy and didn’t send them.

1.5) I saw a bunch of people I haven’t seen in years and had entirely too much fun. 

2) I had a screamingly early flight Wednesday, came home and crashed out for like 6 hours. 

So, I’m going to give you two of the five pieces today, and the other three tomorrow.

Try It On

Imagine that you have a new puppy, and you are starting to train her to go outside.  You’ve got her constrained to a small part of your house, you have a generous supply of treats.  So the basics are covered.  Now, you have two options: 

1. Spend all day following her around, grabbing her any time she sniffs or circles and running her outside. By the end of the day, you have only a few stains on your floor, but you’re blind exhausted and you’ve gotten nothing…