Future

No forecasts. Scenarios you can get up for in the morning.

Sascha Schulz: Portrait in a white T-shirt
  • Collage illustration: a long rust red table set with cream plates and gold cups seen from above, a black park bench with an open wallet and a tree with a gold crown beside it, and a small grey parliament building far in the background.

    Happiness Is Not on the Ballot

    Governments appoint ministers for happiness and sort budgets by wellbeing. The data show where happiness is actually made: at the table, on the square, in trust between strangers,…

  • Screenprint collage: one path splitting into four coloured paths under a gold sun, a map of possible futures

    Scenarios, Not Forecasts

    Forecasts record the mood of the moment more faithfully than the future. Scenarios do something humbler and more useful: they prepare us without pretending to know.

  • Screenprint collage: twelve paper stepping stones crossing a calm stream, the last one gold

    Twelve Small Decisions

    Big resolutions make good headlines and poor habits. Research on how routines form suggests something quieter: fewer vows, more small decisions, repeated until they stop being decisions.