27.02.2026 20:50
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What should one be doing while “building” with AI and waiting on the machine, over and over? I find it incredibly boring and the antithesis of deep work.
Or even the idea that it can be fixed by any technology vs collective action at a global scale…
Give Us Access to Your Ring Camera and Maybe We’ll Find Your Dog www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/giv...
I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Great piece by Friedman that shifts the frame on China and counters the standard narratives. Well worth the time.
What happens with "Agentic AI" replaces a large number of knowledge work roles? Mostly collapse.
Introducing Dispatch: a new series on my blog showcasing work in progress.
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The next best time is now.
Imagine a world where the left used strategic foresight beginning four years ago to anticipate the present moment and develop strategies to A) envision and act on better futures, or B) develop strategies for resilience in the collapse scenario.
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Clear, thoughtful, sharp.
Does every organization need a futurist-in-residence? No.
Does every organization need foresight? Yes.
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The big question: Can trust be “rebuilt” by the same system that destroyed it?
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One way out of this is to deconstruct the most prolific narratives so that we can think more clearly about the present and envision alternative futures.
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The result is a trench warfare melodrama among competing narratives that challenges our ability to make sense of emerging developments and limits our capacity to exercise political agency over the future.
The rapid pace of change and high stakes of AI generate a lot of noise, exacerbated by a dysfunctional information ecosystem that incentivizes real-time analysis and hyperbolic posturing.
New lab offerings for 2025, designed to amplify futures fluency in organizations. You will need it.
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“I told him the nature of justice is we have conflicting values and interests that cannot be made commensurable on a single scale, and that the work of human deliberation and negotiation and appeal is essential...It becomes two worldviews that don’t intersect...”
The shifting goalposts on climate are especially frustrating. Stunning hypocrisy.
It was only a matter of time. Question for the church: If I get my own AI "agent" to handle confessions for my sins (because, productivity), can I still be absolved IRL?
I thought I was doing the Lord's work when I did adversarial testing of "Father Justin" and he was demoted. Can someone buy me a ticket to Lucerne? I just wanna see something. www.vice.com/en/article/a...
There are no future facts.
The value of a field trip vs. living in a garden of abstraction. Lovely writing.
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Job site or cabinet saw? How serious is this?
