The Architecture of Certainty
At the Strait of Hormuz this week, commercial vessels are still queuing for passage — more than a dozen a day, according to shipping trackers — even as strikes resume somewhere over Iran and a ceasefire that was...
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Musings on Systems Change
Work on complex systems, transformation, emergence, and the leverage points that reshape organisations and societies.
The Art & Science of Anticipation
A Study in Expanded Consciousness
The Forest Does Not Fall At Once
The woman who grills chicken over charcoal at the mouth of my soi has raised her prices twice since the second week of July.
What Holds Everything Together
Essential Tenets of a Civilisation Worth Inhabiting
From Parliamentary Theatre to Civic Wisdom
The Westminster Model's Terminal Decline
Albert Fish and the Manufactured Monstrous
The Futures We Refuse To Prevent
Choosing the Horizon
Navigators, Narratives, and the Fate of Worlds
Climate Change Policies
Deploying Eco-pragmatism to Frame Action
What Comes After Downsizing
The Positive Case for Contraction of the Species
What Is Any Of This For?
The question civilisations can't ask themselves
The Cassandra Tax
Accepting the Burden of Knowing Too Much
The Frame that Admits No Reply
Christine McDougall, who writes at Syntropic World and has spent twenty years building the models and the language her project needs, has published an essay called 95% Yanged Out. It’s a furious, exact, and, in large...
A Most Discrete Desertion
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
Redacted!
Freedom of Information or the Manufacture of Ignorance?
The End of the Opposition
A New Working Grammar for Government
The Unseen Architecture of Consent
Recalibrating Human Agency in the Algorithmic Age
Using Capital Wisely
The changing nature of capital and its use
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
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