Notebook
This is a curated space where I gather reflections, articles, event reports, provocations, and fragments from across my work. Expect me to dip into futures, storytelling, sustainability, experiential formats and more.
The Great Switch: Switching Your Skype Incoming Number to a European or Non-US VOIP Provider (European and Non-US VOIP Alternatives)
European and other non-US alternatives to Skype Incoming Number. For people who aren't happy about US politics, ...
The Great Switch: Switching Appointment Booking Tools (European and non-US Calendly Alternatives)
The Great Switch: Switching Appointment Booking Tools (European and non-US Calendly Alternatives)And after a ...
The Great Switch: Switching Cloud Storage Providers (European & non-US Dropbox Alternatives)
The Great Switch: Switching Cloud Storage Providers (European & non-US Dropbox Alternatives)This is the first ...
The fog of ambiguity is where creativity lives
Most groups don’t get stuck because they lack ideas. They get stuck because they hate the “fog”, that awkward ...
The Great Switch: Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
The Great Switch: putting my money where my mouth isHow frustrated are you with the current state of the U.S.? ...
Futures work begins with questions, not answers
In his book Questions Are the Answer, MIT professor Hal B. Gregersen argues that breakthrough thinking rarely ...
Why confident predictions persist in an unstable world
In times of geopolitical instability, rapid technological change, and overlapping crises, it’s increasingly hard ...
Why I avoid monologues in futures work
Wes Kao makes a blunt but helpful point: students don’t owe us their attention. The same is true for participants ...
Looking back from the future
We often approach the future by looking forward: imagining scenarios, mapping trends, projecting change. But ...
Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” theory: applying to doing climate and sustainability communication
Some thoughts on using the Let Them theory, radical acceptance and the ABT to boster your work as a climate and ...
The method is not the work. The facilitator is.
In the Gurukul system, learning happens through proximity, repetition, observation, and relationship, as . Not ...
When scenarios don’t work (and why that’s usually a facilitation issue)
I’ve seen futures processes fail, not because the scenarios were weak, but because the facilitation was. Here are ...
Movement is a futures method
Movement is often treated as a break from thinking. But research shows that movement is a form of thinking and ...
Our brains were not designed for slide deck futures
Most futures sessions involve people sitting still, listening for long stretches, trying to imagine radical change ...
Psychological safety in futures work is not “soft”. It’s structural
Psychological safety is often talked about as if it were a mood. Let’s create a space with good vibes, a warm and ...
Blind drawing and the future
There’s a facilitation exercise called Blind Portraits that has some interesting lessons for futures facilitators.
The contribution of “childless cat ladies” to society
The contribution of "childless cat ladies" to societyThe BBC's post about Usha Vance defending her husband's ...
If you’re asking a question, you still believe in a future
In her essay Important Questions to Ask Yourself, poet Jane Hirshfield tells a story about a man who travels far ...
Don’t outsource your imagination
AI can be a powerful tool in futures and foresight work. It can scan vast amounts of information, surface patterns ...
Holding uncertainty together
Following on from my recent thoughts about collective intelligence as a futures skill, I thought I’d come back to ...
Place, power, and inclusion in futures work
Place is never just a backdrop.
The futures that don’t get spoken
In many futures conversations, the most important futures are the ones no one names.
Protect children from Little Red Riding Hood. Guns are fine, though.
Guns or Little Red Riding Hood. Which of the two should be banned in schools?
Curiosity is a futures skill
Curiosity is often treated as a personality trait, a thing that you either have or don’t. But in futures and ...
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