No time for sensemaking..

Steve Jobs famously said we cannot join the dots looking forward, only by looking backwards. And right now, there are an awful lot of dots to join.

There are many potentially significant changes taking place, and we do not know whether they are harbingers of what is to come or temporary phenomena. 

Just scanning the news this morning, there are articles on people leaving old jobs requiring commuting, and moving to ones that don't. The project director of the Olympics opening ceremony resigns one day before it occurs because of comments he made twenty years ago, when we were less aware that everything we do and say will be available in digital perpetuity. Americans are reporting higher levels of wellbeing during the pandemic. Climate change is wreaking different sorts of havoc, from wildfires to floods. Supply chains are unravelling as a consequence of all of these things.

There is an alchemy to systemic change, and it feels like we are at the beginning of a significant disturbance. We fi…