The Container for All that We Want
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, We used to store grain. Then we stored money. Now we store data. Soon we will store identity – and with it significance, meaning and perhaps immortality. This is the new afterlife: to live on in the feed, the search results, the training data of tomorrow’s intelligence. Once AI and the internet has absorbed us – what of us will remain? The great question of society will…
From Steel to Stories: The Transformation Economy has Arrived
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, We used to buy things. Then we bought services. Now we buy who we want to become. Or who we want others to think we’ve become. Reinvention is the new wealth. The next great shift in the economy is not about selling products or services, its about selling and recoding identity. If done well, this means our social order will go from labor to data to meaning. If done…
Trust is the New Currency. Influence is How You Spend It.
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, The world is crumbling and there is a new realignment of power. Institutions are fading and decentralized networks and AI are rising. In this environment whole industries will be reshaped on a trust versus influence matrix. Trust is sustained attention over time. More precisely, it is a “confident relationship with the unknown.” It’s the new currency in era when almost…
The West Isn’t Declining — It’s Giving Up
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, In an age of collapse, people either seethe or shrug. I wrote previously of the outrage economy but it’s equally corrosive counterpart is resignation. A better term is learned helplessness – a sense of abject powerlessness born of trauma in the era of failed institutions. Stagnation. Apathy. Fatigue. These are the hallmarks of learned helplessness. It’s fundamentally a…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, For most of history, the world has been too heavy. Too heavy with institutions. Too heavy with gatekeepers. Too heavy with bureaucracy, friction, and tradition. We were born into a world of concrete, hierarchy, and legacy systems—slow to change, difficult to move, and nearly impossible to question. Now we have a world moving faster and more disruptive than ever – too…
You’ll Never Arrive: The New Era of Liminal Living
Signals for what’s next – and what matters Health ⎪ Innovation ⎪ Society 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, In every conversation lately- with physicians, founders, parents – I hear the same quiet confession: I thought I’d feel different by now. Everyone’s left but no one has arrived. We are all in a permanent state of crossing – or being stuck – at a threshold. Liminality. The post modernists will tell you ennui is the defining characteristic of modern life. It’s not. It’s…
Status Poker: The Game No One Told You You’re Playing
Signals for what’s next – and what matters 🖊️ Share this newsletter with a friend Hey Reader, We are in time of disruption. With that comes winners and losers. While everything is costing more, one thing is becoming less valuable: status. People love technology but the hate the status deflation that results. The people that are ranting or screaming at others? Trust they are on the downside of status. Most people think they’re still playing the same old status game — climb the ladder, collect…
Your Job’s Dying. Leverage Is Why.
Signals from the Future Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast 🖊️ Share this newsletter with others Leverage built the world. AI will redefine it. But leverage – the ability to get asymmetric returns on your effort – has transformed dramatically over time. It’s the one concept that built the pyramids, creates billionaires, and has powered all human progress. Leverage has evolved from muscle & money, to media, and models. Few are ready for it….
“Power, Collapse, Code & Chaos: The 4 Horsemen of Modern Disruption”
Signals from the Future Health | Innovation | Society Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast 🖊️ Share this newsletter with others We’re not In an Era of Change. We’re in a Change Era. The world isn’t falling apart. It’s reorganizing. That means one thing: Reinvention is not optional. These are the Four Horseman of Modern Disruption that are re-orienting the world The Great Unbundling The Acceleration Trap Wealth Polarization Power Shift from Institutions to…
Why Vibes Matter More Than Credentials
Signals from the Future Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast 🖊️ Share this newsletter with others No one would ever argue that I, the perpetual introvert and last-to-know-about-the-party-that- happened-2-weeks-ago, is the master of vibes. But this term is popping every where from vibe coding, to post pandemic cultural anxiety of the seen and be seen crowd, to the vibecession that may have helped landed Trump in office (or kicked Biden out)….
