Children of the Magenta

Children of the Magenta

Review: Could Should Might Don't

Review of Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future by Nick Foster

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Sami Makelainen
Feb 12, 2026
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This review comes with a disclosure: foresight is a significant chunk of my professional identity. Reading a book that critiques how we think about the future was simultaneously validating and uncomfortable - like having someone narrate your therapy session while occasionally getting the details wrong, prompting the occasional “Hey wait that’s not how i…

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