Why do you avoid planning backwards and instead choose to plan forwards?
Replied bySam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
Planning backwards creates rigid worldviews that fall apart when the ground shifts. I prefer to hold a small number of strong convictions about the direction of the future, while planning forwards from our current state and remaining highly flexible on everything else.
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