The Impossible Network

01/09/2026

01/09/2026

I ended 2025 with a conversation that kept me thinking about how I think about future.

Your see Futurist Tamar Kasriel doesn't predict the future, she thinks that's the wrong goal.

What she does is help people get ready for whatever emerges. Not waiting-at-the-starting-line ready. Training-in-all-weather...all conditions, mindset ready.

She has this phrase: "thoughtful, willed, intentional optimism." Sounds like a mouthful, but what she means is this. Pessimism doesn't help you see more clearly.

2026 is going to be uncertain. It already is. That's not a prediction, that's just... the world we are in.

Her book Could: The Smart Thinking Handbook for When Nothing Is Certain is out now.
Link to full episode in comments if you want the whole thing.

01/07/2026

Recent pod drop with

12/15/2025

This is a much shared quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) the Austrian-British philosopher. He was widely considered one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.

His quote takes on new meaning in this age of AI.

AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini have absorbed more language than any human ever could. Millions of voices, ideas, vocabularies, ways of explaining things.

But AI is *only* language. There is no body. No gut feeling. No wordless hunch that comes before the breakthrough or ah ha moment.

A baby understands gravity before they can say the word. Einstein pictured himself riding a beam of light before he had the math to prove it.

That’s the human advantage. The feeling you can’t quite explain. The insight that shows up before you have words for it. Something invisible, something unmeasurable.

AI gives you more ways to say things. But its up to us to bring the thing worth saying.

That’s not a limitation. That’s a partnership. A new partnership.

11/14/2025