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Closing the Assumption Gap Asking which of your premises just stopped being true

Most organisations make their assumptions explicit only under pressure. By then it's too late.

New From → To: 90+ Singapore practitioners used the 10F forecasts to interrogate theirs. Plus a podcast, a signal, and work from the network.

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Thursday is my favorite day of the year in Barcelona — Sant Jordi. Imagine the center of a US city occupied by acres of book stalls. Streets closed. No cars. Just book shopping. And roses.
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Donnarumma is special.

Sounds like an early Bogart character

Fan service about fan service. Ann Dowd tho...

How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?

Someone should design a simulation around this uncertainty🧐www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/technology/ho...

I remember his bridge column as a kid. Couldn't understand it, but thought it was exotic and smelled of money.

Have Some Fun — Todd Reisz Showpiece Dispatch 07

It's on my list to eventually acquire.Good piece from @toddreisz.bsky.social here: www.toddreisz.com/posts/have-fun

Do you have PETROPOLIS?

Are all teen boys wearing the same wig these days?

Is that Col. Steven Lockjaw running for California governor?

Waving down the Med!

I have a new job opp. (from Follow the Yuan)

Coining it here: Deprecation Drift — The context instablity that appears in Claude in the days before a new model is released. Just came thru another wave of it leading up to Opus 4.7 dropping today. #livedexperience

Register Your Interest – Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World – Zoom Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World – Zoom, Tue 9 Jun 2026 - Wed 10 Jun 2026 - Prepare for a Turbulent WorldA 2-day (7 hours total) online workshop exploring advanced horizon s...

The Changeist team is aiming to re-run our successful Horizon Scanning & Sensing 2-day online workshop in June for NAm-friendly timings (still works for UK and EU). Ticketing opens soon, with *limited earlybird spots*.

Indicate interest here: events.changeist.com/events/chang...

What if data centres are the real paper clip

Timberlands with the strings out?

If a social media platform can diversify into nuclear fusion, everything is possible, and nothing is real, to steal the Pomerantsev title.

Scott Smith (@changeist) Out in the world.

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It takes a sucker to get sucker-punched

I'll actualy give it to Ken Burns. While there are def shortcomings, The American Revolution is actually a bit engrossing and shows 1) how small the actual armies got a certain points, and 2) how stupid leaders were. And 3) how far out of the way they would walk, to no good end.

Register Your Interest – Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World – Zoom Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World – Zoom, Tue 9 Jun 2026 - Wed 10 Jun 2026 - Prepare for a Turbulent WorldA 2-day (7 hours total) online workshop exploring advanced horizon s...

The Changeist team is aiming to re-run our successful Horizon Scanning & Sensing 2-day online workshop in June for NAm-friendly timings (still works for UK and EU). Ticketing opens soon, with *limited earlybird spots*.

Indicate interest here: events.changeist.com/events/chang...

Earlier this year, I co-wrote this forecast on the international downward spiral of global migration with the @10fconsortium.bsky.social. Dilley is the heir of a corrupted system and also potentially only the tip of the iceberg.

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tbf when ur in a med-bed everyone looks like Jesus

Tahini Expatriate

From the French 75

It’s a low bar

For the umpteenth time: independent ≠ centrist

What the zuck