The Nearly Now is Here

Letters for people who want to both imagine the inspiring futures we need and help build them.

Every so often, I send out original writing that aims to offer you compelling stories, fresh insights, reasons for grounded optimism and new ways to think about how to do your work in the world.

Here are a few free samples of the kind of writing I deliver to my subscribers:

Future stories like In San Patricio, a community struggles with transformation; Breaking Roads, Making Bank; California’s Heroic Future; and This Earthly Sphere. Nonfiction pieces like Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere; The Smokestacks Come Tumbling Down; The Future of Cars is Slow and Being Too Far Ahead is the Same Thing as Being Wrong. Special projects like my manifesto for the new climate movement, The Last Decade; perspectives on the news, fresh insights on important current trends; travel reports; interviews with foresighted people (like science fiction writers Warren Ellis and Pablo Bacigalupi); even the occasional audio podcast.

Sign up now to get stories that will change how you see the future and essays that give you tools to re-imagine your own possibilities in a new, worldchanging light.

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