Why does the past always seem predictable after it happens?

Once you know how it ended, you swear you saw it coming.

Once an outcome is known, people tend to believe they would have predicted it all along - even when they couldn't have. This creeping determinism makes us revise our memory of what we expected, so history feels more inevitable than it was.

After a startup fails, everyone says the warning signs were obvious - though no one sold beforehand.

Knowing the ending makes the story feel obvious, but only in hindsight.

Write down predictions before outcomes - it's the only honest record of what you actually knew.

Knowing the end makes the path look inevitable.

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