Your Eye on the Future · Morris Misel · the Tuesday email
One thing that's changing, every Tuesday, and what it could mean for you.
A free email from me every Tuesday, about five minutes to read. Below are six recent pieces, so you can see what I write about before you join.
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I'd pick one small, regular read and keep an eye on what the people around you have quietly stopped doing, because that's usually where change shows up first.
In the early 2000s I told two of the large Australian banks that credit cards would take over from cheques. Both thought that was 30 or 40 years away, if it happened at all. People had walked away from the chequebook long before the government set a date to wind cheques down.
When I'm trying to work out whether something's heading your way, I watch what people are doing first, and the official date and the name tend to turn up a good while after that.
The Tuesday email is me doing that noticing for you, so each week you get one thing I've seen coming and what I think it might mean for you.
From chapter 5 of my year-end guide
I'd start with what's already dated for next year, then look at what your customers have quietly stopped doing, and then at what's started in another industry that might make its way to yours.
I start with what's already on the calendar for 2027, a contract ending, a lease, a rule starting, someone retiring, and then I look at my business (the market, competitors, costs and suppliers), my customers, my people and technology.
With each one I ask what's bothering customers now that wasn't a year ago, and whether something that's started somewhere else might turn up here. Then I ask whether it's really happening or just talk, and if I can't tell, I write it down anyway with a note on what would tell me. A sign you saw last week counts for more than one from three years ago, so I note where I saw it, and when.
I write it down in my own words with a date on it, before anybody has given it a name, because in a few years you'll want to know when you first saw it coming. The full set of steps is in Before the Year Turns.
Six recent pieces from my blog · newest first
Here, and in your inbox every Tuesday. Everything I write goes on my blog, and these six are recent, so you can see the kind of thing I write about before you join.
Two big banks told me cheques had 30 or 40 years left. People had walked away from the chequebook long before the government set a date, so I look at habits first, the official date next and the name last.
Hilton and I got talking about scenario planning and culture, about why I say misstep, because you get up from a misstep, and about why I want wisdom to stay with people in AI work.
A job is becoming a set of tasks. Work out which ones only you can do, pick a direction, and start three small things.
Mum's roast is on the table at six and you're stuck in traffic, so you ring her and take another road. That's how I think about the year ahead too, with a few moves that each have a name and a date.
Every photo you keep sits in a big shed that needs power and water. I think a regional town that asks for one gets to set the terms.
I plan a year ahead, sometimes longer, and I anchor it to where I'm heading. Then I follow the ripples: what each change might set off, and what that sets off in turn.
The rest are on my blog at morrisfuturist.com, and the Tuesday email takes about five minutes to read.
What arrives
It takes about five minutes to read, and the email is called Immediate Futures. It's pretty much the chat we'd have over a coffee.
It's free, I keep only your name and email, and you can leave any time with one click. If you'd like it, you can join here.
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It's free, and I keep only your name and email, use them only for these notes and never sell them, so you can leave any time with one click.
About five minutes, and each one starts from a single thing I've noticed coming.
The name comes from how Saxton Speakers introduce me, as founder and lead futurist of Your Eye on the Future, and the weekly email itself is called Immediate Futures.
With each one I ask myself whether it's really happening or just talk, and if I can't tell I write it down anyway with a note on what would tell me, and then I look again when it does. A sign you saw last week counts for more than one from three years ago.
Yes. The six pieces on this page are recent ones, and the rest are on my blog at morrisfuturist.com. Have a read of a few, and if you like them you can join and they'll come to your inbox.
On my blog at morrisfuturist.com, where everything I write goes. The email is for the people who'd like one thing a week in their inbox, and a small thing to do about it.
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One thing that's changing and what it could mean for you, every Tuesday, in a few minutes' reading.
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Morris Misel
Foresight Strategist · Business Futurist · Keynote Speaker
Chair & Industry Fellow, Griffith University Inclusive Futures · Member, G100 Einstein Global Future Think Tank · Top Global and APAC Voices 2026