Paul Graham Raven

Greetings from midsommar, a day which—as far as I can tell—matters more to most Swedes than Christmas. As a long-time fan of sunshine and warmth, I can dig it... though I'll pass on the pickled herring, thanks. This week has been dominated by finishing the first-draft

Welcome back to weeknotes at Worldbuilding Agency! This week has mostly involved: * the production of stories for the latest collaborative foresight cycle book from Media Evolution, plus * a certain amount of admin, and a related amount of hurry-up-and-wait, related to PROJECT TEMPORAL (Yes, I have grudgingly decided to give the

Well, here we are again. Operations at Magrathea Futures this week have included co-planning a workshop to be delivered at the end of the month, and the slow, patient rebooting of a focussed reading-for-research practice. More news on these in weeks to come—and also on the glorious paleofutures pictured

Well, where did that week go? This is, of course, the question that weeknotes are meant to answer... but the philosophers among you will surely acknowledge (however grudgingly) that no answer can ever be complete. One Big Thing This week's big thing was surely two days of workshops

This has been a difficult week, for reasons I can't quite explain, even to myself. Difficult isn't even the right word, really; it's just been a week in which it's been hard to get any traction. There's various reasons one

What I intend for these weeknotes is that they focus on, or at least feature prominently, the work I've been doing in the week that they're for. That won't always be practical, of course: sometimes there will be work that can't be