There's a guy called Stewart Brand, who created the influential zine The Whole Earth Catalog in the late 60's.

It was so influential that Steve Jobs saw it as a paperback Google 35 years before Google.

Some thirty years later, in 1996, Brand set up a non-profit to promote low time preference and long term thinking.

That's the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/

From the getgo when visiting their site, you can see how long term they think.

They've set up various LTP projects:

-Rosetta Project - a contemporary, universal version of the Rosetta Stone to archive 1,500 languages for 10,000 years. -Clock of the Long Now an accurate, and easily repairable, clock built to last 10,000 years -Hosts talks on many subjects around LTP in SF

The talks are great and can be heard via the org's two free podcast feeds.

The org even refers to the year in a very long time preference way. They refer to the year they were set up not as 1996 but instead as 01996. This year is referred to as 02023 not 2023 - the way how things are framed in language makes a difference too.

On a more personal note, I once attended a talk by a wise old spiritual teacher, Tai Situpa, who told a story about two students who spoke about becoming enlightened:

One was impatient, with a short time preference - saying that he wanted to become enlightened in just one lifetime (instead, it was said it took him several lifetimes). The second student was far more realistic saying that he'd be happy to take 100 lifetimes - because of this attitude his mind was loose and ripe enough he attained enlightenment in a single lifetime instead.

I'd almost forgotten about that story - thanks to your post it helped to remember it.