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Perspectives
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 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)
Fact or Fiction: Silicon Will Outsmart Carbon
Fact or Fiction: Silicon Will Outsmart Carbon The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a question that keeps ethicists, scientists, and everyday people awake at night: Is the future silicon, no
The Last Commons (Chapter Five): The Institutional Antibody (Issue #261)
What if the systems we rely on for stability are the very systems preventing us from adapting? We tend to interpret continuity as evidence of strength. Institutions that endure are assumed to be effec
The Lost Commons Episode Four: The Missing Medium
This audio episode looks at what's disappeared from the space between individuals and institutions, and why that gap matters more than people realize.(17min 02sec)
Fact or Fiction: Start-ups Fail Because They Lack Financing
Fact or Fiction #260 Start-ups Fail Because They Lack Financing In this issue of the KEI Network, Chapter Four of The Last Commons challenges a deeply embedded belief: that innovation rises or falls o
The Last Commons (Chapter Four): The Missing Medium (Issue #260)
What emerges instead is a more uncomfortable truth. Across decades of investment, the real gap was not financial, but relational. What was missing was the connective tissue—the human capacity to align
The Lost Commons Episode Three: The Illusion of Permanence
This audio episode challenges the assumption that today's institutions and roles are fixed, and asks what happens when the ground everyone built on turns out to be temporary.(19min 19sec)