A company planning a very large, long-horizon oil project needs to believe that its contracts and the political and social stability that preserves them will last for a decade or more.

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• A company should aim to survive the next century, not just the next quarter. BCBrian Chesky25 Jan 2018
• Data centres and the grid that feeds them run on incompatible clocks: one is a two-year project, the other a multi-decade investment. BPBrian Potter10 Jun 2024
• Humans will keep their jobs for a good long time because someone will need to keep AIs on task. NSNoah Smith1 Sept 2026
• Even a long-horizon deep tech company should chase revenue sooner than it thinks, so that it is valued on its roadmap rather than on its probability of dying. MHMax Hodak7 Aug 2026
• Nuclear power is politically unreliable as an answer to climate change, because every major accident freezes reactor construction worldwide for another decade. SPSerhii Plokhy4 Mar 2024

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