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Simon Sees: The Future of Continuity

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This one was sparked by our latest Future With Friends podcast, where I teamed up with the wizard himself, Dr Jason Fox, to explore ‘The Future of Continuity.’ Jason crafted a two-part scenario for the future, and we’ve turned it into a special double feature podcast

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Future of Work
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The Future is Live

Have you ever had that feeling of knowing exactly what’s going to happen next? That you’ve somehow tapped into the universe at a deeper level? That happened for me back in 2016 when I caught a glimpse of the future of keynote speaking. What I saw was a future not

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Simon Sees: The Future of Acting

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This edition was sparked by our latest Future With Friends podcast episode with the incredible Megan Davis, where we explored ‘The Future of Acting’. But, as these conversations tend to do, we found ourselves diving much deeper—into the role creativity plays in

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Simon Sees: The Future of The Past

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week’s Simon Sees is inspired by our latest Future With Friends episode, “The Future of The Past“, with the ever-thoughtful Mykel Dixon — a rich conversation on ancient wisdom, creative expression, and reconnecting with the childlike intuition we often lose. We kick off with new research

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Simon Sees: The Future of How We Will Live

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! Inspired by our recent Future With Friends conversation with Col Fink, this week we’re diving into the future of how we’ll live – physically, socially, and communally. We kick things off with Elon Musk’s idea of relocating his children and their mothers

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Decision Making
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Simon Says: Can you see the bigger picture?

Although not technically part of the collaborative decision making framework, individual perception and the ability to see the bigger picture is still instrumental to good decision making. In fact, in some ways, the ability for individuals to not just see, but analyse what’s going on in the world around them

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Leadership
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Simon Says: How will we agree to disagree?

We should always take frameworks and models with a healthy amount of skepticism. Just like a map is a gross simplification of the richness and complexity of the real world, a framework is a simplification of processes and behaviour. That being said, even though a map is far less complex

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Simon Sees: The Future of Death and Dying

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! Inspired by our Future With Friends conversation with Michelle Newell, this week, we’re stepping into the shadowy – yet strangely illuminating – realm of death and dying. But not in the way you might expect. From bringing long-extinct dire wolves back to life, to using

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Simon Sees: The Future of Work-Life Balance

Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week, we’re exploring the ever-shifting terrain of work and life – and how the ways we design it, measure it, and show up in it are quietly being rewritten. We’ll question our obsession with numbers (and whether they’re telling us the

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