Facing the Future
A nine-part series written in February 2026 exploring the biggest questions around AI and societal change — from alignment and the Singularity, to work, community, and what you can do right now.
- 1Part 1 of 9
The Conversation We Need to Have
Why I started weekly coffee meetups. The weight of what I was seeing. The gap between what I knew was happening and what the people I care about understood. What are you doing to prepare?
- 2Part 2 of 9
What is AI alignment and why is it so hard?
The gap between what we say and what we mean has never mattered much — until now. Here's why aligning AI with human intent is one of the hardest problems we've ever faced, and why it has to be solved before it's too late.
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What is the Singularity, and why is it so critically important?
The singularity isn't science fiction — it's a mathematical threshold. Here's what it actually means, why the sequence of events leading up to it matters so much, and why understanding it changes your sense of urgency.
- 4Part 4 of 9
What is happening to work?
AI is already displacing knowledge workers — and robotics is coming for physical work next. Here's what's actually happening, and a framework for thinking about your own situation.
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Why community is the most important preparation
The bushfires taught me something about what community actually does in a crisis. The AI disruption ahead requires the same lesson — learned before the fire arrives, not during it.
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How can Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs frame our planning efforts?
When the future feels uncertain, a 1940s psychology diagram turns out to be surprisingly useful — not as a prediction, but as a planning map.
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What conditions make food preparation (and similar) efforts important?
This is the post I find hardest to write — not because the scenarios are implausible, but because naming them out loud still feels uncomfortable. Let's do it anyway.
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What does a good future actually look like?
We spend a lot of time talking about what could go wrong. Not enough time on what we're actually hoping for. That gap matters — because you can't navigate toward something you can't picture.
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What can you actually do right now?
Nine posts in, and now the question that matters most. Not what should someone do in the abstract — what can you actually do, today, with the life you have?