Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

Other contenders, plucked from my favourites

• The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875

• Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072

• Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314

• Bullshit Jobs ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874320

A few days ago I ended up reading through this entire thread from January 2020 with predictions for the upcoming decade, it was a LOT of reading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

There were almost zero entries about the pandemic that changed life as less than 3 months later.

The ability to predict the future just doesn't exist. Take the general advice about how to be more resilient, that stuff will age fairly well... but don't buy into any predictions of doom on a specific date, etc. That kind of worry doesn't do any good.

If you want fellow travelers who are also worried, you'll find them there to hang out with.