A perspective that emphasizes the long future rather than what happens in the now. This is good, but zooming out like this also makes it easier to delude ourselves that 1) the future is fundamentally knowable instead of uncertain and that 2) our actions should be guided by the risk mindset. The uncertainty mindset, it should be obvious, functions as a corrective for these two pitfalls of long-term thinking.
For more on the long-term view, start with #44: The long view.
See also: causality, complexity, control, coronavirus, negative capability, not-knowing, realistic imagination, strategy, the work of uncertainty, tradeoffs, uncertain futures.