PTFA™ stands for Past Trauma, Future Anxiety — a framework by Morris Misel that names the two forces most responsible for why change stalls in organisations. It is not a theory. It is an observed pattern, drawn from 40+ years of working with organisations across 160 industries as they faced significant disruption, restructuring, or strategic […]
HUMAND™ is a decision framework created by foresight strategist Morris Misel to answer one of the most pressing questions in organisations today: which work should be done by humans, which by machines, and which by AI? The framework takes its name from its five components: Humans, Machines, AI, Navigation, and Design. Together, they form a […]
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.
At 06:51 on 2 June 2026, Australia became a 28-million-person nation. Morris Misel reflects on the IKEA moments of Australian identity, what still fits the room, and what a three-week-old granddaughter might inherit.
Your measurement systems are telling you your best people are fine. They’re not. Quiet burnout in 2026 doesn’t look like distress. It looks like reliability. And that’s exactly the problem.
When the Pope named what AI should be permitted to do to the human experience, Silicon Valley went silent. That silence reveals the gap. Morris Misel on what the responses to Magnifica Humanitas actually tell us.
