Johannes Kleske
@jkleske.bsky.social
Helping people make sense of futures, johanneskleske.com
“As one civil rights marcher said when they were asked if the movement would win: ‘We won when we started.’” – Ryan Holiday in Right Thing, Right Now
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“As one civil rights marcher said when they were asked if the movement would win: ‘We won when we started.’” – Ryan Holiday in Right Thing, Right Now
As someone who for a long time had a slide with Sergey Brin wearing the Google Glass and the word “hybris” in large letters, I tremendously enjoyed this: youtu.be/aAF-9q5SeCk...
Google Glass: everybody’s least favorite wearable | Version History
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December 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
As someone who for a long time had a slide with Sergey Brin wearing the Google Glass and the word “hybris” in large letters, I tremendously enjoyed this: youtu.be/aAF-9q5SeCk...
Oh boy …
I was a longtime Alfred user on the Mac. But after listening to Thomas Paul Mann on the Vergecast, I had to try out Raycast. And now I'm down a deep rabbit hole. It is so good. I can even have it use my custom MCP servers to access my knowledge base. buff.ly/4cexdAl
I was a longtime Alfred user on the Mac. But after listening to Thomas Paul Mann on the Vergecast, I had to try out Raycast. And now I'm down a deep rabbit hole. It is so good. I can even have it use my custom MCP servers to access my knowledge base. buff.ly/4cexdAl
I just want AI to rename my photos | The Vergecast
Raycast is an unusual app with an unusual amount of access: it’s a launcher and application platform that can directly interact with all the files and apps on your computer. Raycast didn’t start as…
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December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Oh boy …
I was a longtime Alfred user on the Mac. But after listening to Thomas Paul Mann on the Vergecast, I had to try out Raycast. And now I'm down a deep rabbit hole. It is so good. I can even have it use my custom MCP servers to access my knowledge base. buff.ly/4cexdAl
I was a longtime Alfred user on the Mac. But after listening to Thomas Paul Mann on the Vergecast, I had to try out Raycast. And now I'm down a deep rabbit hole. It is so good. I can even have it use my custom MCP servers to access my knowledge base. buff.ly/4cexdAl
“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.” – William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, 2003
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.” – William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, 2003
What if Michael Burry just shortened a couple of tech stocks to create attention for the launch of his substack?
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
What if Michael Burry just shortened a couple of tech stocks to create attention for the launch of his substack?
Why am I not surprised that it is the FT that delivers the most accurate and brutal report on the current state of the German economy while the German media seems to be either in denial or trying to deliver the message gently (like ZEIT titling “It's not going so well anymore” in September)?
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Why am I not surprised that it is the FT that delivers the most accurate and brutal report on the current state of the German economy while the German media seems to be either in denial or trying to deliver the message gently (like ZEIT titling “It's not going so well anymore” in September)?
Trying to deconstruct the intersecting but often contradictory concepts of the Dark Enlightenment, Neo-Integralism/Christian Nationalism, Caesarism, and Thiel's antichrist/katechon obsession might be the most abyss-gazey thing I've done in years.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Trying to deconstruct the intersecting but often contradictory concepts of the Dark Enlightenment, Neo-Integralism/Christian Nationalism, Caesarism, and Thiel's antichrist/katechon obsession might be the most abyss-gazey thing I've done in years.
Christmas came early youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek?...
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
Lars Gotrich | October 31, 2025
The pot lid didn't sound the way we wanted. "What about our Webby?" I suggested. The award statue's metallic spring had just the right amount of wobble — a ride cymbal…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Christmas came early youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek?...
“Totally! AGI is such a bullshit term they dreamed up to turn science fiction tropes into venture capital. Oh, wait! You were talking about AI hallucinating, not its hype-men.”
October 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“Totally! AGI is such a bullshit term they dreamed up to turn science fiction tropes into venture capital. Oh, wait! You were talking about AI hallucinating, not its hype-men.”
“What we’re seeing isn’t merely a peace process – it’s a three-way negotiation where territorial settlements, corporate restoration, and reconstruction contracts are being horse-traded in real time.” – Adrian Monck
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The Uncomfortable Economics of Making Peace in Ukraine
When corporations become diplomats, whose interests are really being served?
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August 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“What we’re seeing isn’t merely a peace process – it’s a three-way negotiation where territorial settlements, corporate restoration, and reconstruction contracts are being horse-traded in real time.” – Adrian Monck
7thin.gs/p/ukraine-pe...
7thin.gs/p/ukraine-pe...
Now that the trade market for AI researchers is hotter than sports, I can't wait for the Netflix documentary "Scale to Survive"
August 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Now that the trade market for AI researchers is hotter than sports, I can't wait for the Netflix documentary "Scale to Survive"
Quoting Altman and Amodei on the future of A(G)I is like quoting the pope on the existence of God.
July 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Quoting Altman and Amodei on the future of A(G)I is like quoting the pope on the existence of God.
Maybe my favorite talk from #FutureDays25 just dropped on YouTube:
Simon Höher at Future Days 2025
Unthinkable FuturesWhat if the futures we really need… can’t yet be imagined?At FD25, Simon Höher (Dark Matter Labs) invites us to explore the paradox at the...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Maybe my favorite talk from #FutureDays25 just dropped on YouTube:
“It's about a group behavior pattern around a particular class of object. What I do is pattern recognition.”
This quote went on our first Third Wave website in 2011. To this day, it's still the most on-point summary of what I do. 🧵
This quote went on our first Third Wave website in 2011. To this day, it's still the most on-point summary of what I do. 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“It's about a group behavior pattern around a particular class of object. What I do is pattern recognition.”
This quote went on our first Third Wave website in 2011. To this day, it's still the most on-point summary of what I do. 🧵
This quote went on our first Third Wave website in 2011. To this day, it's still the most on-point summary of what I do. 🧵
“Everybody who's not a leader, please clear the room.” buff.ly/4wcOkJF
June 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Everybody who's not a leader, please clear the room.” buff.ly/4wcOkJF
GLP-1, mRNA, CRISPR—the scientific arsenal expands while healthcare's imagination contracts. The limiting factor isn't technology but our capacity to envision radical transformation. Technology isn't your bottleneck. Your thinking is.
May 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
GLP-1, mRNA, CRISPR—the scientific arsenal expands while healthcare's imagination contracts. The limiting factor isn't technology but our capacity to envision radical transformation. Technology isn't your bottleneck. Your thinking is.
What story are you telling about the future? Better yet—what story is your customer telling? The gap between these narratives represents your strategic vulnerability. Close it before someone else does.
May 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
What story are you telling about the future? Better yet—what story is your customer telling? The gap between these narratives represents your strategic vulnerability. Close it before someone else does.
The ATM approach to innovation: Most providers Avoid crucial decisions, Talk endlessly about change, then frantically Mimic first movers when it's already too late.
Break this cycle.
Break this cycle.
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The ATM approach to innovation: Most providers Avoid crucial decisions, Talk endlessly about change, then frantically Mimic first movers when it's already too late.
Break this cycle.
Break this cycle.
Control your images of the future—or others will do it for you. Sam Altman's AGI narrative isn't inevitability; it's strategy. What alternative future could better serve YOUR values?
May 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Control your images of the future—or others will do it for you. Sam Altman's AGI narrative isn't inevitability; it's strategy. What alternative future could better serve YOUR values?
German corporate mindset: “Wait and see,” then “copy and paste.” Result? Perpetually playing catch-up.
The alternative? Critical foresight—asking deeper questions, finding your own path forward despite the risk.
The alternative? Critical foresight—asking deeper questions, finding your own path forward despite the risk.
May 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
German corporate mindset: “Wait and see,” then “copy and paste.” Result? Perpetually playing catch-up.
The alternative? Critical foresight—asking deeper questions, finding your own path forward despite the risk.
The alternative? Critical foresight—asking deeper questions, finding your own path forward despite the risk.
Your strategic blind spot? Those “future imaginaries” you take for granted. Every AI strategy starts with unquestioned assumptions. Critical futurists ask, whose values and agenda are embedded in your roadmap?
May 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Your strategic blind spot? Those “future imaginaries” you take for granted. Every AI strategy starts with unquestioned assumptions. Critical futurists ask, whose values and agenda are embedded in your roadmap?
The future isn't fixed—it's performative. The more we collectively repeat narratives about AI, the metaverse, or crypto, the more likely they materialize. Who benefits from the future you're buying into?
May 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The future isn't fixed—it's performative. The more we collectively repeat narratives about AI, the metaverse, or crypto, the more likely they materialize. Who benefits from the future you're buying into?
“AI first” is not a strategy. It's a PR campaign.
May 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“AI first” is not a strategy. It's a PR campaign.
Want to know why the German economy is in shambles? The fact that we're discussing fixing it by working longer might give you a clue.
May 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Want to know why the German economy is in shambles? The fact that we're discussing fixing it by working longer might give you a clue.
I was at Koro yesterday, doing an interactive session with the employees about futures work. Here are some of the approaches we discussed:
May 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I was at Koro yesterday, doing an interactive session with the employees about futures work. Here are some of the approaches we discussed: