Irregular

What you’ll get

Every Sunday evening you’ll receive a short article that takes a look at familiar idea from a different perspectives.

Irregular ideas so far

Garbage in, garbage out

Humans out of the loop

A clockwork butterfly

Copy and paste

The soft power of civil society

Perpetual motion machines

How complex systems succeed

Be more fox

Down with dogmatism

Growth at all costs

Searching for better questions

Why make a humanoid robot?

The app-ification of work

Building on top of what went before

To whom am I speaking?

The coastline paradox

Creating and curating

Wasting time

Building cathedrals

A brief history and future of moving fast and breaking things

Don’t influence me

Are you a digital native or a digital immigrant?

On the duty of system disobedience

Lots of info, loosely held

The Great Reset is coming

Digital skills are life skills

Employment will be liquefied

Small steps are better than big steps

Rate of surprise is an indicator of uncertainty

Virtual worlds need real directions

Human-centred design has had it’s day

Switching off multiplayer mode

Create coherence in complexity

Opposing opinions can coexist

More people will become creators

Join a memeplex to spread ideas

Changing the way we change

Kitchens can tell us a lot about the digital transformation of organisations

Inequality and the unequal distribution of wealth is inevitable

Enforcing organisational values is a fascist goal

The better is the enemy of the good

Drastic change is more probable than we realise

The switch was humanity’s best and worst invention

Life is an outlier

Our first ideas are the worst

Pessimists create revolutions

There are three types of dog owner

Your attention isn’t yours

The future is never finished

The future of sabotaging work

Epictetus was wrong about control

Dirty Dancing is the greatest movie of all time

Attention grabbing is an ethical choice

We cannot make decisions rationally

All things change at their own pace

Red flags and the abdication of responsibility

A Homo sapiens guide to coexistence

The clock ticks down to doomsday

Don’t let machines make decisions

Climate change is the wrong ecological disaster to focus on

Are we alone?

Do we really need rules?

Who wins the space race?

The coordination problem, or what it takes to change the world

Why digital transformation won’t solve the productivity paradox

Why would we want a more equal society?

Will we need leaders in the future?

Our systems treat us as objects

Are we getting worse at solving problems?

Do you have a choice?

The balancing of big tech

When future shock is the norm

Becoming a virtual citizen

The ultimate split

What happens when we stop telling stories?

Expanding on the future of education

No single source of truth

Knowledge is power. Information isn’t

In search of the perfect potato

Stop solving problems

Digital you