PTFA: Past Trauma, Future Anxiety. Why Organisations Get Stuck
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
Getting Better in the Same Direction
When every organisation improves in the same direction, the second and third order consequences aren’t growth. They’re narrowing.
Immediate Futures: The Framework for Acting on What’s Already Arriving
Most futures thinking tells you what might happen. Immediate Futures tells you what is already happening, and what you can do about it now, before the window closes.
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.
We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for a Very Long Time
A pigeon navigates with its liver. Parrots call you by name when you’re not in the room. And mammals didn’t lose the ability to regenerate — the switch was turned off. What three science stories quietly rewrite about what we are.
I Said It Was Never Humans vs. Machines. Ten Years Later, Nobody Built the Human Half.
In 2016 in Perth I said it was never humans versus machines. Ten years later, the machines arrived on schedule. The human wisdom layer did not. This is what I heard in a Brisbane boardroom last week, and why the gap between the machine curve and the wisdom curve is where AI ROI goes to die.
