The Future

Good luck finding your coat; the house keeps rearranging itself. If your head's spinning, good. Spin with purpose

We're living through transformation so rapid that yesterday's breakthrough becomes today's infrastructure becomes tomorrow's archaeological curiosity becomes next week's "remember when" meme.

We're not climbing a hill of progress; we've been shot out of a cannon of acceleration, blindfolded and hoping for a soft landing. Welcome to the velocity of now, where the future arrives before we've processed the present, and the past recedes so swiftly it requires professionals to remind us what existed just five years ago.

In the age of infinite information, the competitive advantage isn't knowledge—it's wisdom. Not those who know the most, but those who can discern what matters. Not processing power, but purpose. Those who can extract meaning, connect dots across domains, and make wise decisions despite uncertainty are more likely to thrive.

Intelligence today means staying open. It means unlearning old frameworks, following genuine curiosity, and letting go of the need to appear sophisticated. It means practicing sense-making in public, without fear of being mid-thought.

The path to becoming future proof comes down to shifting from consumer to creator. When you solve your own problems, publish the solutions in the global town square, and help an audience of like-minded people, even if that audience is a "tiny" 1,000 true fans, I find it hard to believe you won't find the power in you to create a good life. At that ... See more

It’s happening in the background, away from performance, away from the algorithm. Rather than worrying about audience, these are intimacy tools.The most powerful cultural spaces right now are ones you can’t search for. You’re invited in, or you miss it.We spent a decade learning how to go viral. Now, the clever ones are learning how to go quiet.

Armed with a traditional film background, we faced a dilemma: shed the principles of our training to feed the algorithm's insatiable appetite for content, or hold fast to our ideals and risk missing out. Multiply output for likes and follows, or cultivate vision for something that seemed very distant, unpredictable, and way harder to reach. It was ... See more