A TIME CAPSULE.

Letter to a 2030 Optimist.

Write a letter to yourself. Attach the three OOS beliefs you are working on right now. We will send it back to you in 2030 with a note on how the index moved.

Why 2030

Four years is long enough for the landscape to look genuinely different. Short enough that you will remember what you believed in 2026.

The letters we keep longest are the ones written at a moment of real uncertainty, when the ending was not yet visible. This is one of those moments. Write it now.

What to include

Your letter should answer three questions.

  1. 01 What are you building right now, and what do you believe about it?
  2. 02 Which two of the ten OOS beliefs are you most actively trying to practise?
  3. 03 What are you most uncertain about that you are building anyway?

There is no minimum or maximum length. Most good letters are 150 to 400 words.

Your belief stack

Select up to three beliefs to attach to your letter.

01 Optimism is a skill
02 Better is possible
03 Future literacy is essential
04 Optimism = realism + imagination
05 Creativity builds culture
06 Optimism is tribal
07 Signal over noise
08 Progress is iterative
09 Confidence compounds
10 The future is still to be written

0 of 3 selected

Write your letter

Send it. We hold it until 2030.

150 to 400 words is the sweet spot. Be honest about what you do not know yet.

Clicking Send to 2030 opens your email client with the letter pre-filled. Send it to hello@mikelitman.me and we will handle delivery. We will write back in 2030 with a note on how the index moved.

Published letters

From people who wrote in May 2026.

"I am building an AI product for restaurants in 2026. What I believe most strongly is that the tools matter less than the conviction behind them. The belief I am practising hardest is number eight: ship version one. I have been preparing for 18 months. I need to stop preparing."

Head of Product, London  •  May 2026

"I am 28 and I have just left a job that paid well and made me feel like I was watching my life happen to someone else. I am betting on Belief 01. I do not know if I am an optimist yet, but I am practising."

Strategist, Edinburgh  •  May 2026

"We are a founding team of three. We disagree on almost everything except the direction. I am attaching Belief 06 and Belief 02. The tribe is here. The better version is possible. That is enough for now."

Co-founder, Manchester  •  May 2026

"Nobody has seen the ending yet. Write down what you believe before it gets here."

Write your letter