Good foresight isn’t academic; it’s collective imagination—urgent optimism to navigate chaos today. IFTF’s Jake Dunagan joined 20+ experts from around the world to co-create forecasts that map current global fragmentation’s effects the next decade. www.10fconsortium.org @10fconsortium.bsky.social

If you're headed to @munsecconf.bsky.social, we have something you might want to read. 10fconsortium.org

As promised, 10F Forecasts are live now. @gquaggiotto.bsky.social @older.bsky.social @adamtooze.bsky.social @kyla.bsky.social @edwardluce.bsky.social @jamescrabtree.bsky.social @ranaforoohar.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social

For those of you who missed it last month, a delightful thread on who I am, what I do, and why you should hire me. Enjoy! 🧵👇

Will corporate Memphis ever die? Will people with rubber arms inhabit all aspects of our world for eternity?

Why does no one ever skate to Tubular Bells

The organizations built to navigate global complexity are still trying to reassemble the old order. We mapped the new one. Sign up to access the forecasts on February 13 at 10fconsortium.org

Hello friends. We've been quietly working away since last spring on a new project: 20+ futurists, strategists and domain experts, coming together independently to map what's actually happening as globalization unravels. The resulting 10 forecasts go live Friday, 13/2. 10fconsortium.org

Asking the internet for a mashup cut of Margin Call and Working Girl. Is that so impossible?

"We want to emphasize that occasional marijuana use is no more a problem than drinking a glass of wine with dinner or smoking a celebratory cigar. " The NYT always in touch with the common man.

VAR won that one. Which I guess was the objective.

Peak Columbo: Gena Rowlands and Oskar Werner

Bullshit piled on top of bullshit. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

One of the most important technologies of the 20th century. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

On a bus home from an urban light festival being held up by a nighttime Critical Mass bike protest. Honk if you’re jealous.

Claude this week

I can't get no Claude compaction I can't get me no prompt reaction

So with these updates, we now have two Keynote versions, two Pages versions etc? That's...bizarre.

If you see a dog, post dog, same dog edition

Sometimes in classes I've taught on roadmapping futures, I ask students to imagine the mundane bureaucratic events that lead up to a ridiculous sci-fi ending. Somebody built the procurement department for that space elevator and trained the staff. I was too conservative.

Maybe somebody can vibe code a functioning news organization

More like Washington Ghost, amiright?

It's almost like—and hear me out—the market is not the economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

Damn. In the 70s they just threw us in a trailer in the school parking lot. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Self-awareware for people with no self-awareness

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Russian Commercial French African Economic History European Economic History Physical Anthropology

These aren’t so much cabinet officials as TV characters who get to follow different plot arcs.

Cannot wait to use Final Cut Pro with Apple Numbers

Never should have shut down Minitel

Now spending two hours a day debugging MCPs and python scripts.

When do we get the Claude Train Manifesto, and who will write it? Feels only days away.

Random rewatch of the Pee-wee Herman Show, now 45 years on, and it’s still an amazing artifact of cabaret.

Miro is a pop-up machine with a collaboration function.

Quote post with a clue of where you're from.

Tinkering with Cowork and the first thing it reminds me of is project management apps. If I wanted several extra steps in everything I do, I'd add them myself. Why learn yet another workflow? And explain it to 5 other people? First one to @ me gets 🗡️

Peace Through Childishness ✊

I know what I need to do. I know where the vast majority of my shit is. I know what ideas I have. I keep lists now and then. This is apparently unusual. Apparently you are supposed to have a digital map to organize it. I did not know this.

Our friends @cftchange.bsky.social released a zine today to mark MLK Day on the Urgency of Political Hope. Enjoy. www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

Work-wise, 2025 seemed to be set on low-temp. 2026 has been on hyperspace so far. And that's not even directly related to the external world.

Put it through Procurement. Make American Generate a Purchase Order.

Realising I haven’t checked my vibe inbox in some time. Apologies to all who had sent some.

When I wrote about risk-maxing, this is one of the driving dynamics I pointed at: the perception that a clock is ticking. In this case, the perceived end of scarcity, and therefore the end of money. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-...

"What happens when everyone abandons safety margins simultaneously?" The experiment is running live right now, and it's expanding all the time www.collisiondetector.com/riskmaxxing-...

What Slot forgets is that, unlike the supporters, he and the team are paid massive amounts not to lose. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

I saw this film in the cinema when it came out. It’s the perfect early 80s film that weirdly foreshadows MAHA.