Dear younger T –

You're learning English right now. That will lead to economics. Then insurance. Then risk. In retrospect, it's a straight line. Trust the sequence.

In school they'll teach you that Chapter 1 leads to Chapter 2, and you'll trust the blueprint because an expert designed it. That will work for a while.

In twenty-five years, you'll learn to invert the logic. You'll start with the outcome and work backward. Experimentation will become your way of learning.

Technology will make this shift possible. The motorcycle of your Vietnam childhood – manual, mechanical, bound to the road – will become something closer to a magic carpet – intuitive, fluid, expansive. You'll name a destination and the technology will handle the flight. It will compress the distance between a thought and its execution.

When the new way feels uncomfortable and expansive, remember: you've been engineering outcomes longer than you realize. The language was just different.

Start with intention. Build the road back to yourself.

And while you're learning the new way of learning, share what you think is useful.

You can summon the magic carpet and take flight.

– Your older T