Difficult business, creative, technological, and cultural problems examined through structured debate between expert advisors.
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A growing number of successful founders are deliberately stepping back from public visibility — declining press, leaving social media, building quietly. The conventional wisdom says this is a mistake. The evidence is more interesting.
Ethical fashion has a values problem, a price problem, and a virality problem. Fast fashion has solved the third so thoroughly that the first two no longer seem to matter. A debate about whether the structural disadvantage is permanent.
Decades of research confirm that unstructured interviews are poor predictors of job performance. Organisations know this. They continue regardless. The persistence of a demonstrably flawed practice tells us something important about what hiring is actually for.
A small number of organisations have experimented with publishing everything — salaries, performance reviews, strategic decisions. The results are more complicated than either advocates or critics predicted.
The industry that built its premium on superior information synthesis now competes with tools that do that faster and cheaper. The response from within consulting has been to argue that what they really do is something AI cannot replicate. History suggests some scepticism is warranted.
The product design techniques that create engagement, retention, and growth are the same techniques that create compulsion, dependency, and harm. The line between them is thinner than most builders admit.
The artists, designers, and makers who gave cities their identity are leaving. Property prices get the blame but the causes run deeper — and so do the consequences.
A business model that once seemed frictionless has become the defining frustration of digital life. As churn accelerates and consumers rebel, the race is on to find what comes next.
The career ladder was built on junior roles that no longer need to exist. As AI absorbs the work that used to train the next generation, the professions face a structural crisis they are not ready to name.
Major employers are ordering workers back to desks with increasing force. Behind the productivity arguments lies a messier contest over who controls the future of work.