This post was originally published as part of the Association of Professional Futurists Compass Magazine June 2025 “How-To” issue

In May of 2025, I attended and presented at the University of Houston foresight program’s annual Spring Gathering event, celebrating 50 years of the UH program and exploring the future of Futures & Foresight.

This post was originally completed as part of my master’s course “Professional Seminar,” and published on the University of Houston’s Foresight Program Blog, republishing here because why not?

While the different types of strategy detailed in Mintzberg's Strategy Safari remain foundational, the demands of the networked, agile, and matrixed environments of global mega-corporations today require not only new methods of building strategy, but new metaphors as well. One such metaphor as a fitting model for crafting strategy in the modern business era is mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi.

A presentation I was recently invited to give on Applied Foresight for Leala Abbott’s Strategic Management class @Parsons/New School.

A short essay from a course for my master’s work. The prompt was about the most significant change across lifetimes from generations recent to mine.

50 years from now, society will largely resemble the present, but not necessarily in a positive way.

This diatribe on the plague that is retconning was inspired by a GQ UK article I came across on Twitter.

Finally eliminating COVID-19 could be a litmus test for the full-on corporate rule.

While browsing reddit on a Saturday evening I came across a reddit post from a second year industrial design student chock full of uncertainty in their future and their sketching ability.