Questioning our way into the Future

There's a term for this, formally known as the "Dunning Kruger effect", and more colloquially as "Mount Stupid". It occurs at that point where our training convinces us we're highly competent before we've had the experience to prove it. Looking at the press and social media, it seems to me like the summit of Mount Stupid is pretty crowded right now.

Despite the fact that there is no data on the future, any number of people, from politicians to business trumpet with real conviction what is going to happen and what we're going to have to do. There's probably any number of bodies of some sort being formed as I write to join the confidence of the Covid Recovery Group.

The reality is, we don't know. Covid is but one element of an increasingly complex series of major social and economic disruptors that are interacting to set traps for the bold who favour action over thinking.

We need thinkers who do.

Thinkers ask great questions with no easy off the shelf answers, but they don't procrastinate. …