“The time will come soon when this trend will be checked by some appalling disaster.”

Charles Melville Hays
Canadian railway baron
Reportedly said on the night of the Titanic disaster before he was one of the nearly 1500 people who perished.
He was referring to the race by shipping companies competing for passengers by building faster ships.
Wikipedia
Ref: Canadian National History Railblazers. Canadian National Railway.

“Ko te rangatahi, ko rātou ngā rangatira o nāianei. Karekau ko rātou ko te rangatira āpōpō ko rātou te rangatira o nāianei.”

“The youth are the leaders of today. They are not the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today.”

Kiingitanga spokesperson Rahui Papa.

Banal buildings are bad for us. They are the design world’s equivalent of ultra-processed food. Such edifices fail to not only to the people who live or work in them but also to an often-ignored constituency: the people who have to walk past their dull façades every day.

‘Buildings affect our health’: Thomas Heatherwick on how dull architecture is just as harmful as fast food
WRITER Andrew Tuck
Monocle September 2026

When civilian leaders are strategically illiterate, they lose the capacity to exercise meaningful oversight over military affairs.

‘Strategic troublemaking’ for peace: Europe needs a new defence plan if it wants to play negotiator
WRITER Gorana Grgić
Monocle September 2026

Grand strategy is not an innate American trait; it’s a lost European art.

‘Strategic troublemaking’ for peace: Europe needs a new defence plan if it wants to play negotiator
WRITER Gorana Grgić
Monocle September 2026

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently.”

David Graeber
The Utopia of Rules, 2015

In the end, we want connections, not “content”.
The gloomy narrative that AI writes better than humans needs a swift, human redraft
By Josh Fehnert
Monocle Minute
August 10, 2026

“We believe the display will stick around because whether you have glasses, watches or all these new AI wearables, we believe the phone will still be the mainframe.”

Into the fold: In an exclusive interview, Samsung’s head of design reveals what’s next for your smartphone
David Phelan
Monocle August, 2026

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom

AI is the catalyst, not the story and treating it as a technology problem to be managed, rather than a leadership challenge to be met, is the fastest way to end up with policy that’s outdated before the ink is dry.

Leading Like A Wayfinder
FutureMakers
July 2026