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11 JAN 2004
Funny future and present value
Funny now or funny later? We invest our funny money and each item has a present value, intuitively estimated, that sums present and future values. Funny has a short time horizon, maybe three months max for a production.

The vision of a funny future breaks this short time horizon, and may have the highest present value. We could park our growing wealth there, and draw on it for large projects. The vision is a major sink, infinitely expandable, and encourages us to attempt those big projects.

Even if we're doing low-level grassroots work, far removed from the glorious vision, we can feel we're contributing to the larger cause, since every dollar counts. The funny future vision feeds value into our everyday work. It inspires the true believer, even though it's generally regarded as nonsense.
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