Advisor & Strategist
Culture × Tech
Systems & Narratives
For What's Coming
EVERYTHING TO SOMEONE NOT SOMETHING TO EVERYONE
EVERYTHING TO SOMEONE NOT SOMETHING TO EVERYONE
Work
European Luxury Home Appliance
Lead Strategy & Research · Germany
European Toys Manufacturer
Lead R&D + Strategy · Germany/China
Berlin District Government
Strategy & Prototyping · Germany
Global Vision Care Company
Lead Research & Strategy · United States
Global Beverage Company
Senior Cultural Advisor · Germany
American Luxury Automotive Brand
Lead Strategy & Cultural Research · United States
Global Pharmaceutical Company
Sprint Lead · Denmark
Writing
Highlights
Cowan's More Work for Mother, turned on AI: appliances didn't save labor, they let us choose new complexity. Treat AI as a dishwasher, not a god.
What happens when the most important role carries the least prestige?
Making Strategy Executable, Transparent, and Creative
Architecture, data model, and decisions behind an Obsidian vault where AI agents do most of the writing.
Latest
A field report given at the GOSIM Shenzhen Agentic AI Summit: what happens when you take the coding harness idea into a job without a compiler, and why the gains stay with individuals until an organization writes down how it works.
A talk at MOD. in Adelaide about how AI might change everyday expectations, what becomes possible to build, and who takes on the work of keeping it useful.
An advisory mandate delivered through a private GitHub repository: what it changed about shared material, about the sessions, and what it foreshadows for services work.
Essays, concepts & notes
Podcast
From Mass Medicine to TikTok Therapy — with Cyril Maury (Stripe Partners)
Unlearning Productivity: The Radical Act of Doing Something Pointless — with Christie George
Everything to Someone: How Niches Are Becoming the New Mainstream
Third Places in a Filter World — with Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker)
FtR Pod
Talks
Foresight Community of Practice · MOD. Adelaide · September 2026
Keynotes & community sessions