The Future Cannot Be Planned
- dtaz46
- Jan 30
- 1 min read

Back in the pre-2020 before-times, Common Future used to host quarterly planning meetings. Pre-pandemic, we’d come together in Oakland, baked goods and coffee scattered across the conference table, and spend our time doing a lot of critical organizational work. None of it could quite be called planning — even the frequency alone was a signal that maybe we weren’t the ones planning. Could a strategic plan really predict the future when it gets re-planned every 3 months? Maybe, the world had plans for us.