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The Anthropology of Industry 4.0

Monitoring macro trends. Highly opinionated. Supporting clients with market insight for the next deca… err 10 minutes, as we learn to fly by the seat of our pants in the era of novelty, surprise, and acceleration.

2026
Aug 2026Manual

Neo-Tech Bullets — The Jumbo Manual For Honest Influence

The benevolent art of social engineering through memes. What Digital Bullets are, the six steps of Bullet Charting, and bullets for health, wealth, governance and relationships — after Frank R. Wallace.

Culture

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Aug 2026Data Graphic
The Personal Power Pie: a donut chart of adults by agency tier — 65.1% yield by default, 27.4% resist three or four of the seven motivational drivers, 6.8% resist five or six, and an estimated 0.7% resist all seven.

The Personal Power Pie — What % of People Decide for Themselves

Your ability to make good quality decisions depends on seven motivational drivers. Built on the Cognitive-Motivational Bias Matrix, with a real study behind each driver — and the one row that has direction but no rate flagged as exactly that.

CultureFuturism

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Aug 2026Blueprint

The Healthy House — A Room-by-Room Blueprint

Twelve spaces drawn to scale, each with a keyed index of what to include — bedroom, kids' room, kitchen, bathroom, gym and recovery, garden, livestock, and whole-house systems. Sited for the neotropics. Best practice indexed, not argued; the reasoning lives in the Protocols.

Wellness

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Aug 2026Series

The ReadyPatientOne Longevity Protocols

Eleven protocols for healthspan, written for the quarter of people who already act rather than as an introduction to wellness. Each opens with the cognitive biases that keep everyone else on the default trajectory.

Wellness

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Aug 2026Data Graphic

The Die Pie — What Share of People Actually Treat Their Body Deliberately

Four tiers of health behaviour drawn to scale, from the 73.6% on the default trajectory to the 0.5% running longevity protocols. Every boundary traced to a published survey — and the one estimated figure flagged as an estimate.

Wellness

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2025
Apr 2025Long-Form

Premium Wellness Tourism for Longevity — The Mega Trend We All Need And No One Believed Possible

How long will humans live in perfect health? An exploration of optional immortality and the psychology blocking us from claiming it — anchored in the longevity science underpinning premium wellness tourism through the 2030s.

WellnessCulture

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Mar 2025Scholarly

The Cognitive-Motivational Bias Matrix (CMBM) — A Novel Taxonomy of 175 Cognitive Biases

A novel taxonomic framework classifying approximately 175 cognitive biases across 7 cognitive functions and 7 motivational drivers — the Supermind framework for understanding systematic thinking errors.

FuturismCulture

SingularityNET Cognitive Research Grant (2024)

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2024
Sep 2024Work In Progress

Rise of a Cognitive Ecosystem — plotting a matrix between 'accelerationism' (speed, efficiency & tech innovation) and 'augmentation' (enhancing human abilities)

Plotting the matrix between accelerationism (speed, efficiency, tech innovation) and augmentation (enhancing human abilities) — the strategic landscape of cognitive infrastructure.

Futurism

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Sep 2024Hot Report

Introducing the Cyclic Planner — How Leaders Plan Major Initiatives & Coordinate Team Priorities

How successful leaders actually plan major initiatives and coordinate team priorities — outcome-based decision-tree thinking that survives changing market conditions.

ProductivityOrg Development

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Jul 2024Planner

The Atomic Planner — Prioritise with Ease, Despite Complexity

A companion planning system that trains your brain to automatically prioritise what matters — daily planner and ambition accelerator built on the Atomic Agency framework.

Productivity

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Jun 2024Long-Form

A Scathing Critique Of Accelerationism — E/Acc, D/Acc, EA, and Punk (ref: Silicon VCs and Web3 AI Startups)

Attack the best, not the worst — a positive wake-up call to all Accelerationists. Dissecting E/Acc, D/Acc, Effective Altruism, and post-humanist factions for intellectual fairness as AGI imminence accelerates.

FuturismCulture

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Mar 2024

Web3 Organizational Development — The 5 Challenges of a Web3 Startup for Traction & Growth

The five challenges every Web3 startup faces in moving from token launch to sustained traction — and the organizational patterns that consistently solve them.

Org DevelopmentFinance

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Jan 2024Long-Form

The Singularity Timeline — A Revisionist Account of Human History from Philosophy to Engineering, God to Drugs, Systems Design to Science

Protecting the future — a timeline of future past. References that span the entire spectrum of human history with a unifying message about where we came from, why we are here, and where we are headed.

FuturismCulture

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2023
Nov 2023Long-Form

The Singularity Manifesto — Protection, Profit & Pleasure for the Decade of Deliverance (2020–2030)

The Singularity Haven Manifesto heralds the technological singularity expected by 2045 with guidelines for replacing our corrupted brain programming with a fresh install for protection, profit and pleasure.

CultureFuturism

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Nov 2023Essay

The Constitution of Consent — Universal Justice Through Consent-Based Governance

A working draft of a constitutional framework grounded in explicit consent rather than imposed authority — the foundational document for civil sustainability after the singularity.

CultureFuturism

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Nov 2023Guide

Productivity — A Practical Guide for the Age of Acceleration

How can we live in constant productive bliss? A practical companion essay introducing the Atomic Planner — a planning system that supports cognition for managing big ambitions.

Productivity

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2022
Sep 2022

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations — The DAO's and Don'ts Of Web3 Organizational Development

The DAO's and Don'ts of Web3 organizational development — what works, what fails, and the recurring governance traps that have collapsed billion-dollar communities.

FinanceOrg Development

Helios Web3 VC

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Sep 2022

Startup Fundraising — Key Lessons From Leading A 45-Project Web3 Startup Incubator

Key lessons from leading a 45-project Web3 startup incubator — what investors actually look for and where founders most often misjudge their own narratives.

Org DevelopmentStartup

Helios Web3 VC

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Jun 2022

The Futurist Survey — how futurists viewed the future as of 2022.

How leading futurists viewed the trajectory of the next decade as of 2022 — a snapshot of the consensus and the disagreements at a pivotal inflection point.

Futurism

Helios Web3 VC

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2021
Jun 2021

Web3 DAO Grant Programs — The Eden Community and a Race To Oblivion?

A field study of the Eden community on EOS and the structural problems of Web3 grant programs — why most decentralized funding races toward oblivion.

FinanceOrg Development

Eden on EOS

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2020
Aug 2020Long-Form

CORONA — The Greatest Opportunity In The History Of The World

An unfinished essay from August 2020 and the contemporaneous journal it was drawn from, running 27 February to 14 June 2020. Published as written — a dated record of how one person reasoned in real time, under pressure, on incomplete information.

Culture

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Jan 2020Essay

SciFi Spirituality — Faith for the Singularity Era

Spiritual reformation for the messianic age of artificial intelligence and immortal consciousness — heavenly gifts from science, religion and politics.

CultureFuturism

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2013
Jun 2013

Customer Service & Call Center Challenges — Primary research with dozens of Customer Service Directors throughout the UK's 1,000 seat service customers

Primary research with dozens of Customer Service Directors across the UK's 1,000-seat call centres — the operational and cultural challenges that defined the era.

StartupOrg Development

Sabio with support from the CCA, UK

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2010
Jun 2010

Marketing Project Management — A framework for reliably creating a sustained and significant competitive advantage

A marketing project management framework for reliably building a sustained and significant competitive advantage — process, people, and portfolio thinking.

StartupOrg Development

Marketing Project Management Org

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2009
Jun 2009

Copy The Sells — Exposing the Link Between Your Marketing Success And Your Copywriter Selection Process

Exposing the link between marketing success and copywriter selection — why the wrong hire silently caps your conversion ceiling for years.

Startup

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2008
Jun 2008

Search Engine Optimization — The Fuel-IT Way (outdated for today but the principles still apply).

Search engine optimization, the Fuel-IT way — outdated for today, but the underlying principles around intent, structure and authority still apply.

Startup

Fuel-IT Agency

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1998
Nov 1998Short Story

I Am Earth's Survivor — A Short Story

His skeleton sat propped against the rock — wind howling around its ribcage as Earth's last survivor wrote his final journal entries from a planet consumed by its own parasites.

CultureFuturism

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Industry 4.0 Research — Human Agency in the Cognitive Economy | Gavriel Shaw