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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.

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 #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

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

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)

Fact or Fiction: Will AI Restore a Shared Reality—or Replace It? In a time marked by fragmentation, polarization, and algorithmic amplification, a new proposition is gaining traction: that artificial

Institutions, policies, and expectations quietly assume that tomorrow will resemble yesterday. This week's KEI Network newsletter continues our serialization of The Last Commons: Reclaiming Personal S

This episode zooms out to the global picture, tracing how pressures on sovereignty, economics, and technology are converging faster than most institutions can respond to. (17min 59sec)

Consumerism Is Coming to An End Canadian pollster David Coletto recently posed a provocative question: Is consumerism beginning to stall? On the surface, the economy appears stable. Employment remains

Yet today those foundations are being tested by accelerating technological change, economic uncertainty, and shifting social expectations. In this issue, we continue our exploration of The Last Common
Perry Kinkaide reads from The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege, his new book on what happens to human relevance as automation and AI reshape work, community, and daily life. (14min 48sec)

Humans: The New Agents of AI In the early days of computing, machines were tools. Humans issued commands; computers obeyed. Today that relationship is quietly reversing. Increasingly, humans function

Our capacity to think independently, to reflect critically, and to act with intention is increasingly shaped—if not quietly captured—by systems designed to attract, measure, and monetize our attention