by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 7, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
When futures work fails, it’s tempting to blame the method. Maybe the scenarios were too abstract. Maybe the time horizon was wrong. Maybe the data wasn’t robust enough. Sometimes that’s true. But more often, what I’ve seen is something else: the futures work didn’t...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 18, 2024 | Notebook, To export
Don’t be a dick. In my on-going business development experiments, I do a lot of emailing. Whilst I was putting my email together this morning, I wanted to write, “Bottom line? You don’t want to be a dick.” I didn’t write it. It would...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 16, 2024 | Notebook, To export
The legacy of the A23a iceberg I’ve never thought of icebergs as having a destiny before, but this paragraph has made me think differently: “Their destiny is to fragment and wither to nothing. Their legacy is the ocean life they seed by dropping entrained...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 7, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
For a long time, I tried to decide whether I was an introvert or an extrovert. When I am facilitating, I am extrovert: full of energy, constantly keeping people going, occasionally the “life and soul of the party”. But given the choice between going out and...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 27, 2023 | Notebook, To export
To comma or not to comma, that is the question In creating the “hopeful, sustainable futures” project, I was struck by a moment of uncertainty. Although I always separate hopeful and sustainable with a comma (this is a phrase I use a great deal in my...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 22, 2023 | Notebook, To export
AI is not the puppet master Stop saying “AI did this” or “AI made that.” That’s the long-story-short version of Scott Rosenberg’s brilliant article about AI and human agency. Oftimes, humans like to talk about artificial...
