Technology
AI is restructuring how we think, work, and trust, faster than any institution can respond.
Between Stories · Mat Dufour
So are you. That's not a problem. It's where the real work begins.
IBetween Stories
There's a space most people recognize when they find themselves in it. The old story, about who you are, what you're building, where things are going, has stopped holding. The next one isn't written yet. That gap has a name: being between stories. Once you acknowledge you're in it, you can start building.
The three accelerations are making that gap wider for more people, more often. Technology, climate, geopolitics: each one alone would demand serious recalibration. All three at once require something different. Not more information. A way to stay clear, grounded, and intentional while everything external is in motion. That's the work.
AI is restructuring how we think, work, and trust, faster than any institution can respond.
The ecological contract is breaking. The signals are already here. The resilience architecture isn't.
The post-war order is fragmenting. What replaces it shapes everything, including the stories we tell ourselves.
IIWhere this comes from
IIIFrom the latest edition
Vertigo is my newsletter on the three accelerations reshaping our time (technology, climate, geopolitics) and what they do to the people living through them. Here is the latest edition.
Cheap to see, slow to fix
This summer, everybody worried about the heat. And everybody talked about AI. What worries me is the pile. Everything I can now make, save and publish, but no extra hour to read and digest any of it.
IVVertigo
VTwo ways in
7–9 sessions, 4 months. In the language that feels right.
Book a free callInstitutions get between stories too. Diagnosis before prescription.
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