J. Paul Neeley

We live in a time where the speed of change is profound, and accelerating. This creates "Possibility Dilation", where all possibilities could arrive sooner. #SpeculativeDesign becomes an essential for organizations to understand and prepare for all potentials. #design #nkd

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@willahmed @whoop I'm still getting this Sauna detected as Yoga problem, and not finding Sauna in the edit list. I then have to delete the entry and enter in all the data again. I'm wondering if Sauna might be considered a recovery activity? Maybe it is then handled differently?

@JonHaidt This report is such a fantastic resource, and so appreciative on your critical contribution!

The World Happiness Report 2026 is out today! This year's focus/theme: the effect of social media on well-being. See the whole issue here: worldhappiness.report And see my essay (w Zach Rausch) here; we lay out SEVEN lines of evidence of harm: worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/social…

Foresight is often just anxiety with a framework. The part that matters is what you build after you've seen the possibilities. Future scenarios are affordance. Design turns them into something an organization can actually use.

Boredom is a signal our ancestors couldn't afford to ignore. It meant the environment had been fully exploited and it was time to move. We pathologise it and medicate it now. But the impulse underneath is pure: go find something new.

Every institution you interact with was designed for a world that no longer exists. Banks, schools, hospitals, governments. The architecture is still standing but the assumptions underneath crumbled years ago.

Evolution calibrated envy to operates in-group with brutal precision. Your suffering is extremely local.

The best speculative designers I know are the people with a deep willingness to sit with incoherence.

50% of all relationship advice on Reddit is “leave.” 15 years of data, 52 million comments, and the trend line only goes one direction. A researcher filtered r/relationship_advice down to 1,166,592 quality comments and tracked what people actually recommend. In 2010, “End Relationship” sat around 30%. By 2025, it’s approaching 50%. “Communicate” dropped from 22% to 14%. “Compromise” collapsed from 7% to 3%. “Give Space” fell from 25% to 13%. Every category that requires patience lost ground every single year. The one category growing faster than “leave” is “Seek Therapy,” which went from 1% to 6%. The subreddit is slowly learning to say “this is above my pay grade.” Train a model on this dataset and it would absolutely tell people to break up. The training data is 50% “leave” and climbing. The model wouldn’t be broken. It would be accurately reflecting what 52 million commenters actually believe about your relationship. A 50% prior that you should leave, a 14% prior that you should talk about it, and a 6% prior that you need a professional. That’s not LLM psychosis. That’s the median human opinion on your relationship, backed by the largest advice dataset ever assembled.

In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...

This is 100% completely unsustainable as a society. Nearly 50% of all consumer spending now comes from the top 10% of earners. The bottom 80%? Their share keeps falling. This is why the economy can look strong in the data while millions of people feel like they're falling behind.

The conversation about longevity is increasingly shifting from scientific feasibility to societal readiness milwaukeeindependent.com/explainers/sci…

@gdb Yes! And now because of this shift we have to ask a lot more questions about desired impact, and should we build it?

if you can imagine it, you can build it

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy I love the vision, but shouldn’t you be working on the mechanism?

@_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income.

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!

Been thinking about what it means to design for happiness as a system, not a feeling. That's the core of what we're building with Omniana. A personal operating system that treats your wellbeing as something you can observe, adjust, and compound over time.

Happiness isn't a destination, but a metabolic process. Your body is literally building and destroying it, chemically, hundreds of times a day.

Every month is getting warmer. Every day of the year is getting warmer too (on average).

Feedback loops are invisible until they're catastrophic. The skill is learning to see them when they're still small and boring and fixable. This is what systems literacy actually is.

Gratitude rewires reward circuitry. Not metaphorically. Literally. Regular gratitude practice measurably increases dopamine and serotonin production. Evolution built you to notice what's missing. You have to manually override that.

The most dangerous phrase in strategic planning: "our industry is different." Every industry that got disrupted said that sentence, out loud, in a boardroom, six months before it happened.