Let me ask you a question: if you could be granted a peek into your future, would you take it? Let’s say you were granted the opportunity to just take a quick peek at your life five or ten or twenty years from now—would you do it? Would you want to know?

I thought about that question when I read about some coffee houses in Shanghai, China, called Mo Mi Cafes. In some ways the Mo Mi Cafes are like any other cafes.  You can buy specialty coffee or tea at the Mo Mi Cafe. You can hang out and read books. Or . . . you can purchase a postcard and send it to your future self.

That’s right, I said your future self. Each cafe has a post office box for traditional mail delivery. But the cafes also have post office boxes for mail that is intended to be delivered to you over the next 5-10 years.

So…