Possible Futures

Possible Futures

Now

Written December 29, 2024

Hi, my name is Aaron. I live in Idaho with my wife and two daughters, and work as VP of Operations for our local family-owned business. Aside from my job and raising kids, here is what else I am up to right now.

Writing a Book dedicated to my daughters

Containing the best current human knowledge about how to live a life worth living, and how to discover new knowledge that is truly better than what came before.

I believe a human being is the greatest gift to the world, and I’m dedicating myself to investing in my children, ensuring the best of what we know about how to live a good life is accessible to them, and to share this knowledge whoever could use it.

On this quest, I am asking all the people that I know and admire:

  • What is the most important thing you want your child(ren) to learn?
  • What is something you wish you had learned much sooner in life?
  • What are the biggest mindshifts you have made that have most improved your life?

Open Questions

  • How is it that I find it relatively easy to make sense of the world and navigate within it when others who have the same raw materials, the same smarts, the same potential, do not? What are the missing ingredients? Could we make lives reliably wonderful by adding these missing pieces into a standard education?
  • In what ways am I fooling myself with a false sense of certainty, even as I try to guard against it?
    • Since we can never know with certainty if a decision was the right one, what is the best strategy for knowing when to invest in a decision vs. leaving it to chance?

BaldyScopes

I’m writing a fake horoscope that is funny and instructive, as I used to do in college.

Pending launch, soon.

This scratches an itch for me to create humorous material, and I also have received more requests to revive BaldyScopes than anything else I have done. Will be on instagram and BaldyScopes.com.

Why are they called “BaldyScopes”? My last name is Baldassare, and my college nickname therefore is Baldy.

Books I’m reading