HeyJaredThe Stoic Futurist
Make better decisions amidst rapid technological change. I write about agency, disciplined action, and values led leadership so ambitious professionals stay steady, commercially relevant, and in control as AI accelerates and reshapes the future of work.
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When Experience Outlives Its Evidence (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowAn experienced firefighter once entered a burning house and became uneasy.The fire wasn’t behaving as it should.The heat was unusually intense. The building was strangely quiet. Water wasn’t having the expected effect.He didn’t know exactly what was wrong. But what he was seeing didn’t fit what years of experience had taught him to expect.He ordered his crew out, and… shortly afterwards, the floor collapsed (<a href="https://direct.
Is My Baby Ugly? (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowAn experienced founder once described a useful entrepreneurship test to me:Is my baby ugly?The question is uncomfortable, and that’s deliberate. It asks whether a founder hear criticism of their product without immediately defending it?That sounds like a problem specific to entrepreneurship, although it isn’t.A similar difficulty appears whenever people become attached to something they have made. A manager d
The Organisation That Forgot Why It Won (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowI used to drink a fair bit of McCafé coffee.Not because it was the best coffee available. In Australia, that’s a difficult claim for anyone to make.Rather, it occupied a more useful position for me.On the commute, McCafé was convenient and predictable. When travelling further, it was a reasonably safe bet. With young kids, I could sit with a coffee while they occupied themselves elsewhere.It was good enough that I didn’t have to think too h
Stoicism, Adaptation and the Changing Self | Dan Ackers & Peter Ashby Smith (opens the original)
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What does Stoicism have to offer people living through accelerating technological and social change?Dan Ackers and I recently explored that question in a wide-ranging conversation about career pivots, portfolio careers, generalist expertise, AI and the psychology of adaptation.We discussed why people often trust plausible-sounding answers, how Stoic ideas can help us separate events from our judgements about them, and why the central challenge isn’t just adapting to change. It’s also preserving
When “AI Slop” Becomes Slop (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowEarlier this year, a short story published by Granta became the centre of an unusual literary controversy.The Serpent in the Grove, by Trinidad writer Jamir Nazir, had won the Caribbean category of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Soon afterwards, readers began accusing Nazir of using generative AI (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/19/commonwealth-short-story-prize-winner-doubts-ai-artificial
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