Strategy
On Participation
Participation is key to Futures Work, yet often resisted by hierarchies valuing efficiency over collaboration. Its value lies in complexity's nature.
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Poetry
Where Futures Wait
We carry the yet-to-come in the marrow of our being, woven deep, unseen, a pulse older than time. The world is not a machine. It breathes, it bends, it breaks. We thought we could tame it, chart its paths, name its stars. But the stars are wild, their light a
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Beyond linear paths
Why do we think about futures? As anticipatory beings, we’ve evolved to imagine and prepare for what’s ahead. But in today’s complex world, is traditional strategy enough—or is it time to evolve?
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On Hope.
Between tides, we face uncertain futures and the weight of complex challenges. Yet hope rises—not as a lone flame but as a wildfire, igniting resilience. Hope empowers us to move forward together, a shared light guiding us toward what lies beyond the unknown.
The Ballad of Coherence and Alignment
written by Dall-E Open AI This ballad is the result of an unfinished prompt by myself. I wanted to create a visual with Dall-E for my latest LinkedIn post and pressed the enter button already after "The Ballad of Coherence and Alignment" without adding the visual instructions. And
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The Comfort of Prutures
We are caught up in prutures—iterations of the present dressed up to look like progress. They’re infused with just enough novelty to convince us that we’re moving forward, yet they don’t truly challenge us. And as comfortable as they may be, prutures are holding us back.
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Mirrors of meaning
Metaphors are like keys that unlock hidden doors in the mansion of the mind (a metaphor to explain metaphor, oh dear). Behind each door lies a room full of potential, complex ideas, abstract emotions, and unspoken truths.
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Futures Anosognosia
We humans are anticipatory systems. That means we take future states into account when acting in the present. This is a system inherent ability of our biological system. Anticipation is not the same as expectation. Anticipation is looking without the end in mind. That is why we are anticipative systems,
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The Dandelion Approach
This piece explores how the resilience and adaptability of dandelions illustrate the benefits of Futures Work in business, promoting innovative strategies and embracing disruptions for growth.
To think is to forget.
To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.(Jorge Luis Borges) This quote is from the short story "Funes el Memorioso", dating back to 1944,about a young man named Ireneo Funes who, after an accident, gains the ability to remember everything in vivid detail,
The world does not need futurists.
The world needs futures. In a world teeming with complexities and uncertainties, the profound words of Spanish poet Suso Sudón resonate with an unexpected clarity: "El mundo ni siquiera necesita poetas, el mundo necesita poesía." (The world doesn't even need poets; the world needs poetry.) This
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Futures Work
Futures Work is still considered somewhat esoteric since it deals with the yet-to-come, the unknowable. In a world that deals usually in facts or fiction, and right or wrong, futures are all probability and possibility. I can relate to that. I am an engineer by training. In my formative years,