Observations on the human condition
There is something almost unbearable about watching people celebrate the death of other people’s children. Yet across the world, on every side of every current conflict, that is what is happening — on screens, in comment sections, in living rooms. People who would describe themselves as decent, compassionate human beings are finding themselves flooded with … Read more
How structural analysis, vindicated across a decade, points toward what comes next I. How the conclusions were reached There is a particular quality to analysis that arrives at uncomfortable conclusions before those conclusions become comfortable to hold. It cannot claim the authority of consensus, because consensus has not formed. It cannot cite peer review, because … Read more
A Short Story The alarm didn’t wake him. He’d been lying there since five, listening to his mum come in — the particular sound of her trying not to make noise, which was somehow louder than if she’d just walked normally. Keys on the hook. Shoes on the mat. The fridge opening, the specific creak … Read more
A Short Story I was eleven when they began teaching me the value of things. Not the value my brother had been taught — he was seventeen when his heart stopped, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday, and what they taught him died with him in ways nobody in our family has yet found … Read more
The Season Changed is a short story told through the eyes of a child watching her neighbourhood quietly transform during a time of mounting uncertainty. I was nine when the season changed. Not the weather — the weather had already been strange for years, everyone said so, though they said it in the way adults … Read more
How a world that feels like madness is already growing its own replacement The Madness Is Real Let’s not pretend otherwise. Wars that grind on without resolution. Economic dislocation that hollows out communities faster than any explanation can account for. A cost of living that rises while wages stagnate, while savings dissolve, while the promise … Read more
It Is Working Exactly As Designed. And that is the most dangerous thing you can know. For the financial community, the article (link to .pdf) opens on your ground — monetary policy, risk, 2008 — then pulls the floor away by showing the design flaw is deeper than any policy can reach. The blockquote on … Read more
Alex and I produce papers and articles as our understanding of the transition to a new organisational paradigm evolves. The following two podcasts are derived from some of what we’ve written and provide an overview of where we are and where we seem to be heading, as a species, organisationally and consequently societally. This first … Read more
Alex just posted this article on LinkedIn: The financial world is currently fixated on tokenisation. From “Tokenised Money: Use Cases, Interoperability and Regulation” the 2026 research of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School to the passage of the GENIUS Act in the United States, the narrative is clear: digitising money is … Read more
A recent Korean film “No Other Choice” places the main protagonist in conflict with the structure that no longer requires his specialist skills and experience. The one job that he could get has better positioned candidates; his choice is to remove them from the field. The film is a graphic depiction of our self-abusing reality … Read more
I was asked to join Press TV’s Spotlight programme to discuss the arbitrary threat of 25% tariffs being imposed on those who trade with Iran, thereby exposing the US administration’s bad faith in the recent nuclear weapons negotiations. Press TV Spotlight-US Threats Against Iran (video 24 minutes 51 seconds) As I often say in interviews, … Read more