Loonnnggg Vision

'Long Vision' (LV) sounds like a mixture of wrong vision and an optometrist shop. Maybe even a shortened version of long division?

Maybe it is, somewhere.

But for our purposes... I'd like to explore what Long Vision could look like as a doctrine, way of seeing, or instrument for seeing something clearer.

A company that I co-own alongside my BIL ( Goodsides ) didn't know we had this, or that it was even possible... "Long vision, in this economy?!"

But receiving a qualification to support the County of Los Angeles in their post-pandemic efforts under the American Rescue Plan (ARP) triggered this introspection. It took over 10 months to achieve, and we nearly gave up after not hearing anything except a peep back in February.

In fact, the team was so forlorn that we wrote a PR piece that appeared in AP News, Benzinga, and Digital Journal about this journey.

We were so sure that the ultimate story here was that you mustn't sit on your hands and wait for something to happen. This was a literal quote from Louis, our CEO:

“We can’t just stand around twiddling our thumbs waiting for budgets to clear,” commented Louis Easton, CEO and Co-founder of Goodsides. “We’ve got to think smart, get creative, and hunt down cost-effective solutions to keep producing high-impact content. And that’s precisely what we’re doing.” (read the full article )

Except, if we had Long Vision, we would have seen it already.

It was already baked in. We just needed patience and time, and maybe a few contracts in between to hold everything together in the meantime.

It helps to recursively go back to certain topics with friends and outsiders (those not deep in the trenches with you) to get better pulses than what our instincts allow.

It has also been helpful to learn from veterans of these worlds just how long something of value can take. For example, they've said: make it a mantra. Like love yourself. Give yourself time by repeating I have time for the important things. The important things will find me.

Pairing #Accelerate and LV

Maybe the #Accelerate theme of this newsletter and the Long Vision concept I'm exploring is just me juggling ideas. After all, this type of compounding, like with New Aesthetic, Medium Design, Spatial Computing, and others, can be intellectually stimulating in their own right.

I'm hoping, though, that the power to see ahead is the exact prerequisite for a faster Sonic-the-Hedgehog moment.

That it helps make your payroll cycles easier to manage, that it detracts you from selling your business just to "get out," and so forth.

The Future of Long Vision (the LV of LV)

Knowing the road in more ways than the name, or which direction it runs, is a problem they're trying to solve over at Google Maps with a slew of updates .

It's pure speculation, but this push toward better predictive abilities, smarter fuzzy logic, etc., seems to align well with Long Vision and might even extend it like an iPhone camera lens adaptor augments a zoom function.

We'll see more extended horizons as Photoshop improves on its generative fill feature, which basically just came out. Imagine a whole generation being born now and living with generative fill their entire lives, the opportunities and latent potential there.