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Long-form essays and interviews on AI, leadership, economic resilience, and the forces reshaping Canada, from Perry Kinkaide and the KEI Network community.
The Last Commons (Chapter Nine) The Creative Pivot: From Knowing to Intending (Issue #266)
That discussion marked a critical transition: from understanding the infrastructure of independence to confronting how that capacity is directed. As the series moves from Chapter Eight to Chapter Nine
The Lost Commons Episode Eight: The Independence Stack
This audio episode breaks down what real independence looks like layer by layer, and why relying on any single system for security is a bet most people don't realize they're making. (16min 48sec)
Fact or Fiction: When Words Disappear
Imagine waking one year from now with a slightly smaller vocabulary than you have today. Not dramatically smaller—just 338 words gone. After all, most of us rely on a relatively small core of language
The Last Commons (Chapter Eight): The Sovereignty Stack (Issue #265)
Chapter Eight of The Last Commons forces a sharper lens: independence depends not on intent, but on control. Energy, compute, and food form the underlying structure that determines whether individuals
The Lost Commons Episode Seven: The Attention Weapon
This audio episode looks at how attention itself has become a resource fought over and manipulated, and what that fight costs the people caught in the middle of it. (24min 07sec)
Fact or Fiction: Are Young Men Returning to Religion
Fact or Fiction: You’ll Be Back — Are Young Men Returning to Religion? In The Last Commons, I reflected on an ancient moment: humanity’s departure from the Garden of Eden. In that telling, Adam and Ev
The Last Commons (Chapter Seven): The Attention Weapon (Issue #264)
Yet beneath each lies a more fundamental struggle—one that is rarely named because it is difficult to measure and even harder to confront. Not attention as distraction, but attention as sovereignty: t
The Lost Commons Episode Six: The Great Rupture
This audio episode names the break point directly, the moment where old assumptions about work and value stop holding and something new has to take their place. (16min 53sec)
Fact or Fiction: Alberta’s Indigenous Population Wants Out
Alberta’s Indigenous Population Want Out The claim that Alberta’s Indigenous population “want out” is gaining traction in political and media conversations. It suggests a growing desire among First Na
The Last Commons (Chapter Six): The Great Rupture (Issue #263)
In the previous issue, we examined how institutions resist change—not through overt rejection, but through delay, diffusion, and the quiet filtering of ideas that do not fit established structures. Th
A Pause – Death As Many Colours (issue #262)
Death As Many Colours - A Pause in the Serialization of The Last Commons: Reclaiming Personal Sovereignty From time to time a serialization must pause — not because the narrative has ended, but becaus
The Lost Commons Episode Five: The Institutional Antibody
This audio episode examines how institutions defend themselves against change, and why that instinct to protect the status quo often does more harm than the threat itself. (19min 28sec)