The Checking Tax
77% of leaders spend nearly as long verifying AI outputs as generating them. The Checking Tax is the invisible cost in every AI business case — and Decision Trust Zones is the governance fix that closes the gap.
Australia Has an AI Strategy. I’m Still Waiting for the AI Vision.
The Albanese government just announced $3.6 billion for AI. But a strategy for Australian AI isn’t the same as a strategy for AI in Australia. Here’s what’s missing.
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.
Those Kindergarteners Are 19 now. 2030 Is Four Years Away. What’s Changed?
In 2016 I predicted that half of Australia’s kindergarteners would be unemployable by 2030 if education didn’t change. Those kids are 19 now. 2030 is four years away. Here’s the reckoning — what changed, what didn’t, and what needs to happen in the four years we have left.
The Employer Trust Window: Why It Closes Without Warning
Edelman 2026 data puts employer trust at 78%. Morris Misel explains organisational trust collapse and why peak trust is a warning, not a win. What to do now.
The Revolution Was Invisible. And We’re Doing It Again.
In 1976, America’s best scientific minds predicted 2026 and missed the entire revolution. Morris Misel on the visibility trap — and what we’re probably missing right now for 2076.
