THINKDROP 13: WTF – Write The Future
- Pierre Stanghellini
- Aug 25
- 4 min read
No permission. No mercy. Just forward!
🎤 From Me to You
The future isn’t something you wait for — it’s something you write into being through what you notice, decide, and commit to now.
Strategy isn’t five years out. Vision isn’t a slogan. Momentum isn’t a vibe. It’s about presence, clarity, and courage — in high definition.
And for those lucky enough to know (yeahhh!!) the chaotic brilliance of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, there’s a final scene that hit me as a teenager and never left.
Max and Jedediah are being hunted, their only chance: a small plane, runway’s too short, danger's closing in.
Jedediah says: “We’re not gonna make it.”
Max replies, calm and raw: “We haven’t got any choice.”
Jedediah pushes back: “There isn’t enough runway.”
And Max — legend — says: “There will be.”
That’s what writing the future really means.
You don’t wait for the runway. You build it while accelerating. You don’t forecast. You choose. You don’t survive. You create.
This week is about that mindset — future-crafting in motion.
Let’s go.
Pierre Stanghellini -
HARi.wtf founder
P.S. The Mad Max series is probably one of my favorite movie universes ever (right up there with Back to the Future). If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favor this weekend.
Fire it up, crank the volume, and let the engines, chaos, and hard rock kick your imagination into high gear. You'll get why that last scene still lives rent-free in my head.
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1. Future‑Crafting Is a Practice, Not a Plan
Forget the 10-year vision decks for a minute. The future isn’t built in Google Slides — it’s constructed in the repeatable choices you make when no one’s watching.
Crafting the future means training your nervous system to take aligned action today, even if the payoff is years out. It’s not about speed — it’s about signal. The clarity to do the right thing now, before it’s obvious.
TRY THIS: Name one future move you’ve been avoiding. Shrink it. Then make it stupidly doable this week.
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2. Live in 2029, Act in Today
If your imagination is stuck in present constraints, your decisions will be too. Founders who move markets borrow timefrom the future — they live in what’s next and reverse-engineer from there.
Thinking from the future shifts your posture. You stop obsessing over what’s urgent and start aligning with what’s inevitable.
TRY THIS: Write a 2-minute journal entry from the perspective of your 2029 self. What are you proud you did this year? What felt impossible… and now feels inevitable?
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3. Attention Is Your Future’s Fuel
Where you place your focus becomes the shape of your company. Not someday — today. Every minute you spend on low-leverage noise is a vote against the future you're trying to build.
Focus isn’t a productivity hack. It’s a creative act. And in a world addicted to distraction, deep attention is a superpower.
TRY THIS: Audit your inputs. What are you consuming that dilutes your clarity? Cut one. Replace it with something that sharpens vision.
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4. Decisions Are Momentum
You don’t drift into the future. You decide into it. The compound interest of small, aligned decisions will always outperform the perfect plan postponed.
Most stuckness isn’t strategy — it’s fear dressed up in indecision. Momentum isn’t the result of certainty; it’s the consequence of movement.
TRY THIS: What decision are you dragging out in the name of “not ready”? Make it.
Even if you’re only 70% sure. Learn faster.
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5. Urgency Without Panic: Your Strategic Edge
There’s a sharp edge between urgency and anxiety. One moves you with clarity. The other hijacks you with noise.
Writing the future requires being present to it. When you anchor into vision and move with intention, urgency becomes spacious. You can operate fast, without burning out.
TRY THIS: Name one thing you’re rushing out of fear. Now name one thing you’re neglecting that matters. Recalibrate your energy.
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✍️ WTF: The Final Drop
You don’t need to be louder. You need to be clearer. You don’t need more time — you need more alignment. You don’t need permission — you need conviction.
The future doesn’t belong to those who wait for conditions to be right. It belongs to those who choose anyway. Who show up when the vision is still blurry. Who move when the path is unfinished. Who take imperfect steps with brutal consistency — because they know clarity comes after motion, not before it.
Writing the future is not about having the answers — it’s about becoming the kind of person who keeps moving toward the right questions. It’s not about grand narratives — it’s about small, deliberate acts that compound quietly until the world has to pay attention.
And most of all: it’s not about certainty. It’s about choice.
You choose what to build. You choose what to burn. You choose what deserves your energy, your attention, your one shot.
So when the runway looks too short, when the odds feel off, when fear hands you a delay — channel Max.
There will be.
Pierre Stanghellini
W.T.F. for the last 8 years with HARi
→ Let’s connect at www.hari.wtf or drop me a line directly at pierre@hari.wtf .
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About the Creator
Pierre Stanghellini is a creative strategist, systems thinker, and curator of mental rabbit holes. He created Thinkdrop Weekly to feed the brains that don’t want the same old Business advice. If you’re building something bold, beautiful, or strange—this is your corner of the internet.
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About HARi.wtf
HARi.wtf is a creative strategy studio for businesses that hate business-as-usual.
Born in Hong Kong in 2017, we work with restless founders, operators, and teams who’d rather break things thoughtfully than grow them blandly. We don’t do generic decks or bloated strategies—we build clarity, guts, and traction.
From street-level restaurants to global brands, from Asia to Europe, we help shape ideas that move fast when it matters, and slow when it counts.
→ Explore more at hari.wtf
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