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The Futures Dramaturg
GenAI for foresight has crossed a threshold. The profession now needs to cross one too.
Feb 22
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Seeing Like a State
Review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Feb 20
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Could Should Might Don't
Review of Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future by Nick Foster
Feb 12
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Sami Makelainen
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The Grace Margin
Why the world runs on exceptions and what happens when we automate them away
Feb 5
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Sami Makelainen
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January 2026
Review: The Daily Laws
Review of The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature by Robert Greene
Jan 31
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Writing Down the Bones
Review of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jan 25
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Sami Makelainen
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Friction Point: A Community for Everything
Text BELONGING to 71403
Jan 19
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Sami Makelainen
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Best Books of 2025
Last year was another stellar year of quality books.
Jan 18
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Science Under Siege
Review of Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
Jan 11
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: The Breath of the Gods
Review of The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind by Simon Winchester
Jan 4
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Sami Makelainen
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December 2025
Review: Navigating the Age of Chaos
Review of Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a BANI World That Doesn't Make Sense by Jamais Cascio, Bob Johansen, and Angela F…
Dec 28, 2025
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: The Status Game
Review of The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
Dec 20, 2025
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Sami Makelainen
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