We Talk Like Whoever We Spend Time With. Now That Includes Chatbots.
People are picking up chatbot phrases at work and at home. We’ve always borrowed words from whatever surrounds us, and those words shape how we think.
Nobody Argued About the Shark Drones
New South Wales now flies shark drones over around seventy beaches, every day of the year. The money arrived within days of swimmers being killed, and nobody argued, because the reason was too good to argue with. That’s how permanent observation actually shows up. The hard part of drones was never the flying, and the ripple effects land somewhere most leaders aren’t looking.
Kmart Just Settled the Smart Glasses Debate for Eighty-Nine Dollars
Kmart put camera glasses on the shelf for eighty-nine dollars and sold out. The signal isn’t the technology, it’s the price. At $469 these were an enthusiast product. At $89 they’re an ambient condition, and that changes what happens in every room your people work in.
Men Built Their Social Life at Work. Nobody Told Them What Would Happen When It Ended.
The percentage of men with no close friends has gone from 3% to 15% since 1990. For the first time in the data, older men are lonelier than older women. Morris Misel unpacks the friendship recession, what drives it, and what Australia accidentally got right.
Yeah Nah, We’ve Always Known This
The Oxford English Dictionary added 12 Australian English new words in June 2026: yeah nah, donkey vote, dooligah, and nine more. Here is what they tell us about how culture actually moves, and why the dictionary is always a forecast, not just an archive.
What Marconi Built and What AI Is About to Unbuild
On 2 June 1896, Guglielmo Marconi filed the patent that made radio possible. On 2 June 2026, Australia ticked over to 28 million people, and Phil Whelan read a passage from Morris’s article aloud on air and paused. These two things connect. Marconi built the first shared signal. AI is building the last personalised one. Morris Misel unpacks what that means for Australia, for leadership, and for the shared furniture of a nation.
