Short-term vs Long-term Thinking

The cluster focuses on critiques of short-term thinking in decisions, contrasting it with the need for long-term perspectives, often noting how people overestimate short-term impacts and underestimate long-term consequences.

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OP HN IMO PG i.e VC term long term short term short thinking consequences overestimating think long underestimating efficiency

Sample Comments

rob_c Aug 15, 2022 View on HN

how is that not long term thinking?

dkopi Mar 21, 2016 View on HN

Optimizing for the short term may not give the best results in the long term.

hfkldjsjfkdj Dec 14, 2020 View on HN

People don't like to think long term.

john_moscow Aug 30, 2018 View on HN

Long-term thinking feels like a lost art nowadays...

reitzensteinm Aug 7, 2015 View on HN

IMO, it's just another instance of overestimating impact in the short term and underestimating in the long.

omginternets May 2, 2017 View on HN

You're arguing short-term consequences whereas the parent comment is arguing long-term consequences.

dbalatero Mar 22, 2024 View on HN

Long-term thinking isn't super trendy, or even incentivized maybe?

netizen-936824 Jan 18, 2022 View on HN

Why is it not good in the long term?

olyjohn Dec 14, 2025 View on HN

That requires long term thinking. Which nobody does anymore.

tux1968 Feb 18, 2016 View on HN

Whatever the answer to your question, that's very short term thinking to a longer term issue.