Maybe Tomorrow


In 2021 I listened to a Freakonomics podcast that touches on a psychological bias in which people put off decisions because they expect things will be significantly different tomorrow than they are today. Often, this assumption turns out to be wrong: an unpleasant job or living situation or relationship today will still be unpleasant tomorrow. Recognizing this pattern can allow us to simplify decision-making, but there is some emotional force that keeps us in decision limbo, a force I suspect is rooted in hope and in fear.

Maybe Tomorrow contains pieces in a state of suspension that trade resolution for a sense of uneasy possibility, picking up on both the hope and fear that accompanies the belief that change comes tomorrow.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.