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Barbie Is an AI Now, and We Will Never Stop Working Again
From toys to the workplace to overpriced robo-taxis – you truly don’t need to watch Black Mirror anymore… But AI is still awesome.
Radical Incrementalism and the Common Language of Transformation
From small bets to big shifts: why shared meaning powers transformative change.
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Podcast, AI Report, GYSHIDO. And that’s just us…
It’s been a productive week – three updates from your friends at radical plus your usual weekend reading material awaits…
The Agent Economy that is Killing Fintech UX
What happens when your perfectly optimized checkout meets a customer that has no eyes?
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AI just got scary good at talking you into things
Plus: Mary Meeker returns, job market jitters, and why Germans are AI-skeptical (but still using it)
The Future: We Are Doomed. We Are Fine.
The confusing and messy reality of forecasts – and why the people who make them, make them…
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May 2025

Work From Home, AI Weirdness and a Whole Bunch of Links
Your weekly dose of all things future awaits… plus one of our favorite tools (for free!)
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The Future Doesn't Exist. Futures Do.
Why the smartest leaders admit "I don't know" – and plan for multiple tomorrows
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The AI Peloton Effect: When Everyone’s Racing But No One’s Winning
Frontier models converge on identical capabilities while hype cycles crash into reality – plus the week’s most revealing AI contradictions
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Tireless, Deceitful, Highly Scalable and at Your Service
The Jagged Frontier: When AI excels at manipulation but fails at reliability
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So Much AI, So Much AND So Little Progress at the Same Time
All the headlines we didn’t have time to include in the newsletter last week… :)
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Capability Atrophy: The Hidden Cost of AI on Human Expertise
As we outsource thinking, are we creating a generation unable to think for themselves?
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