Writing on leadership, change, and the future of work.
Most futures writing tells you what’s coming. This writing asks what you’re already assuming before you’ve started looking.
The essays here are about leadership, trust, organizational change, and the practice of Everyday Futurism — not as a forecast, but as a discipline. How assumptions harden into policy before anyone names them as assumptions. How convergences form before anyone models them. How the most consequential decisions are often the ones no one recognized as decisions yet.
These are long-form pieces. Written when there’s something worth saying. Not on a schedule.
Case Study · Assumption-Ground Audit · Witnessed Trust · April 13, 2026
The $30 Million Assumption Nobody Checked
One school board policy. One unexamined assumption nobody thought to question. Eighteen months of upstream work. $30 million in recovered value — and counting.
This is the essay that shows the Assumption-Ground Audit and Witnessed Trust in the same story: what it costs when ground is assumed rather than examined, and what changes when someone finally checks it.
The concept the Assumption-Ground Audit starts from — read this before the worked examples.
Essay · Assumption-Ground Audit · May 18, 2026
The No-Go Zone
A billion-dollar vendor, a baseball game, and the line nobody writes down — where what an organization depends on quietly meets what it can acknowledge out loud.
The conceptual entry point to the Assumption-Ground Audit: how to tell a constraint that's real from one nobody ever questioned.
Essay · May 6, 2026
The Throughline Is the Future
I named my newsletter before I knew what the throughline was. The Plum assessment that got me wrong. Sweta Regmi, Hilke Schellmann, Cher Jones, and the thread that connected them. George Michael. The inference layer. And why the only durable ground is the one you’ve already documented.
This is the synthesis essay — where the throughline finally has a name.
On the capacity to see what’s true before it’s been officially named — and the self-trust to act on it.
Essay · May 9, 2026
The Courage to Act Before Permission Arrives
Most people already have discernment — the capacity to see what's true before it's been officially named. What they don't have is the self-trust to act on it.
On the IKEA moment that changed the direction of my work. The word 'coincidence.' And what discernment looks like before there's a room to be quiet in.
Eight essays on trust, discernment, and what it means to notice something real — in organizations, in rooms, and in yourself.
The intellectual formation underneath the work.
Maclean’s · September 2024
Why I Made a Midlife Career Switch
A first-person account of 17 years in wealth management — the commute, the clock-watching, the tug-of-war between a career that made sense on paper and a life that didn’t — and what the pandemic made undeniable. The origin story of Everyday Futurism, in print.
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