Advice Without a Passport
Why ethical principles cross borders while campaign tactics stay at home
Musings
Musings
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
Leaving Normal
Helping leaders feel what they already know
Where the Births Were Written
Synopsis: The fire that gutted Limoges town hall on 17 October 2026 destroyed the office where the city recorded its births and marriages.
Twenty Naza
A documentary, a word for the dead, and the distance between knowing and stopping
Postponed Until Further Notice
The rapture and other improbable notions circulated by the idiocracy
No More Optimism Please. More Imagination
Synopsis: Our dread of the future may be less a failure of imagination than an accurate reading of the present.
Dilemma of the Scriptwriters
Synopsis: Iran’s president spent some of his scarcest hours in New York with the analysts and journalists who draft Washington’s options, rather than with the officials who choose between them.
The Man Who Brings The Future
I have spent twenty years watching a certain kind of man arrive in this part of the world, and I have never once managed to like him.
The Membrane and the Bloodstream
Examining the passage from utterance to belief
Coffee Port
Before it was ever a front line, Mokha was just an aroma.
The Metabolism of Discourse
We are living through an era in which the compression of attention has become so total that we no longer register it as compression.
What The Borrowing Buys
Reflections on Debt in Australia and Elsewhere
Fantasy Worlds
Children Who Read the Future as an Instruction Manual
Do Not Build Below This Point
What it would take for officialdom to remember the water
The Arithmetic of Standing Still
Australia’s productivity angst and the economics of presence
The Little Blue Book
And the fiction we nostalgically call the international order
Who Is Allowed To Say Stop?
A summons to pause unconstrained development of AI
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