Pawel Halicki
@pawelhalicki.bsky.social
Product designer creating Business Sci-Fi: Strategic Imagination training for the AI era. → https://practicalfutures.substack.com/
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Pawel Halicki
@pawelhalicki.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Don’t predict the future. Rehearse it.
Every organisation has a strategy department. None has an imagination department. And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. While plans fail and pred...
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Every organisation has a strategy department.
None has an imagination department.
And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. Plans fail. Predictions expire. Envisioning alternatives adapts.
Start narrative microdosing with futures you can try on.
None has an imagination department.
And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. Plans fail. Predictions expire. Envisioning alternatives adapts.
Start narrative microdosing with futures you can try on.
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In a paradigm shift, urgency is a valid strategy, yet late and excellent beats first and fragile. Time can be renegotiated. Trust cannot.
Your context is late
The team lead strides into the project bay, alive with context streams pulsing across every screen like shifting weather maps of an alien planets. - Your context is late. What’s happening? Her fingers...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In a paradigm shift, urgency is a valid strategy, yet late and excellent beats first and fragile. Time can be renegotiated. Trust cannot.
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In accelerating change, when everything shifts faster than you can standardise it, repeatability becomes a liability disguised as competence. Breakthroughs emerge from outliers that break your patterns, not from optimising what you already do well.
Did you back up your weekend?
Unsure where to land in the busy cafeteria, he heads for the weirdest-looking table. He approaches the trio of colleagues sitting around a diagram built from cutlery and condiment packets. Is this tak...
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October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In accelerating change, when everything shifts faster than you can standardise it, repeatability becomes a liability disguised as competence. Breakthroughs emerge from outliers that break your patterns, not from optimising what you already do well.
We systematically misplace regret. While we fear immediate regret of failure, AI silently compounds the invisible regret of not trying. Never regret failure, always regret inaction.
Let’s freeze regrettability
Everyone in the corner office is instantly grateful to be inside when the rain starts. - Can you switch the view to something calmer? Killing this expansion is difficult enough. The rain blurs when th...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We systematically misplace regret. While we fear immediate regret of failure, AI silently compounds the invisible regret of not trying. Never regret failure, always regret inaction.
Don’t wait for luck. Tune it with planned randomness. Build systems where the right people keep colliding with the right problems at the right time. Serendipity isn’t magic. It’s maintenance.
Chance engineering?
Halfway through the fruit and veg section, she spots two familiar faces walking through overlapping shelf projections, recipe pop-ups, and flashing promo prices tuned to what’s in her cart. - Hello, h...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Don’t wait for luck. Tune it with planned randomness. Build systems where the right people keep colliding with the right problems at the right time. Serendipity isn’t magic. It’s maintenance.
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Obsession is your brain’s most effective resource, but imagination is the most renewable one.
May 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Obsession is your brain’s most effective resource, but imagination is the most renewable one.
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When a stack of AIs can
run a compliant company on autopilot, all expertise is reduced to judgment, taste, and relationships, unlocking the long tail of business models. Founders own blueprints, not plants.
They’re building digital rain
Afternoons like this always make her wonder if their couch is big enough to run both their companies. My networking mesh is showing strange correlations since you put your company on autopilot. You jo...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
When a stack of AIs can
run a compliant company on autopilot, all expertise is reduced to judgment, taste, and relationships, unlocking the long tail of business models. Founders own blueprints, not plants.
In a world engineered to erase friction, the frictions you choose shape you. Find the pattern of problems you keep returning to, and bind yourself where curiosity turns into appetite. Obsession is a promise your attention keeps.
Charge your personality here
The status strip flips to LIVE, and the camera rig resumes its slow spin. The host takes a sip and leans in. - Welcome back to NeuroLush, your go-to feed for raw, unedited inspiration. Whether you're ...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In a world engineered to erase friction, the frictions you choose shape you. Find the pattern of problems you keep returning to, and bind yourself where curiosity turns into appetite. Obsession is a promise your attention keeps.
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Trends won’t prepare you for the future.
Imagination will.
Explore original business sci-fi, organised by emerging tech.
Step into tomorrow’s products, and sharpen your strategic creativity today.
Technology Frontiers is live on Practical Futures:
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/technology...
Imagination will.
Explore original business sci-fi, organised by emerging tech.
Step into tomorrow’s products, and sharpen your strategic creativity today.
Technology Frontiers is live on Practical Futures:
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/technology...
Technology Frontiers
Explore original business sci-fi stories about products and services just over the horizon.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Trends won’t prepare you for the future.
Imagination will.
Explore original business sci-fi, organised by emerging tech.
Step into tomorrow’s products, and sharpen your strategic creativity today.
Technology Frontiers is live on Practical Futures:
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/technology...
Imagination will.
Explore original business sci-fi, organised by emerging tech.
Step into tomorrow’s products, and sharpen your strategic creativity today.
Technology Frontiers is live on Practical Futures:
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/technology...
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Most industry analysis tells you what has already happened.
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.
Industry Futures
Discover original business sci-fi exploring how innovation reshapes industries and daily life.
practicalfutures.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Most industry analysis tells you what has already happened.
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don't predict the future. Rehearse it.
Reposted by Pawel Halicki
What’s better than celebrating a career milestone with a friend?
Doing it at a vertical farm restaurant, where farm-to-table has evolved into wall-to-plate.
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Doing it at a vertical farm restaurant, where farm-to-table has evolved into wall-to-plate.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/girl-you-g...
Girl, you got rigged?
The buzz of a busy lunch service surrounds their table in the middle of the most popular vertical farm in the centre. Restaurant service bustles, picking food from the walls minutes before it is turne...
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February 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
What’s better than celebrating a career milestone with a friend?
Doing it at a vertical farm restaurant, where farm-to-table has evolved into wall-to-plate.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/girl-you-g...
Doing it at a vertical farm restaurant, where farm-to-table has evolved into wall-to-plate.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/girl-you-g...
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Rate my productivity setup
December 3, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Rate my productivity setup
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Explore a future where lifestyles are traded, and AI takes care of productivity, making creativity and decision-making even more important → practicalfutures.substack.com/p/i-had-a-gr...
I had a great time living your life
She answers his call with a tap on the steering wheel. Neon highway lights reflect off her windshield. - How are you? A strangely familiar voice asks through the car's speakers. But something feels od...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Explore a future where lifestyles are traded, and AI takes care of productivity, making creativity and decision-making even more important → practicalfutures.substack.com/p/i-had-a-gr...
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Always keep evolving for the future because what doesn't kill you mutates and tries again.
December 5, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Always keep evolving for the future because what doesn't kill you mutates and tries again.
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The most efficient mass transit system?
→ One with no passengers.
The biggest mistake in transit?
→ Treating humans like data points.
Discover how this city used temporal zoning, AI dispatchers, and micro-offices to make rush hour history.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/we-can-res...
→ One with no passengers.
The biggest mistake in transit?
→ Treating humans like data points.
Discover how this city used temporal zoning, AI dispatchers, and micro-offices to make rush hour history.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/we-can-res...
We can reschedule rush hours
- And with that, dear friends… The presenter pauses dramatically, glancing around the auditorium for added effect. - We can reschedule rush hours. Do I see a raised hand? He takes a sip of water while...
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February 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The most efficient mass transit system?
→ One with no passengers.
The biggest mistake in transit?
→ Treating humans like data points.
Discover how this city used temporal zoning, AI dispatchers, and micro-offices to make rush hour history.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/we-can-res...
→ One with no passengers.
The biggest mistake in transit?
→ Treating humans like data points.
Discover how this city used temporal zoning, AI dispatchers, and micro-offices to make rush hour history.
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/we-can-res...
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The digital divide could often be bridged with basic hardware and an internet connection.
The AI divide requires not only access to AI tools but, first and foremost, the ability to reimagine entire workflows, processes, and business models.
The AI divide requires not only access to AI tools but, first and foremost, the ability to reimagine entire workflows, processes, and business models.
January 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The digital divide could often be bridged with basic hardware and an internet connection.
The AI divide requires not only access to AI tools but, first and foremost, the ability to reimagine entire workflows, processes, and business models.
The AI divide requires not only access to AI tools but, first and foremost, the ability to reimagine entire workflows, processes, and business models.
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Living with AI means adapting to a world where scarcity changes into abundance. In a future of infinite replication,
the real value comes from the context only you can provide.
Can you authenticate summer?
Puffy evening clouds drift through the last shades of summer. She’s tagging the fluffiest ones for her setup. Her daughter burrows deeper under the blanket on the other chair. - Since you opened the t...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Living with AI means adapting to a world where scarcity changes into abundance. In a future of infinite replication,
the real value comes from the context only you can provide.
Reposted by Pawel Halicki
Stories are software for the human brain.
Do yourself a favour.
Read more to install new perspectives.
Read more to patch your thinking.
Your mind deserves the upgrade.
Do yourself a favour.
Read more to install new perspectives.
Read more to patch your thinking.
Your mind deserves the upgrade.
April 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Stories are software for the human brain.
Do yourself a favour.
Read more to install new perspectives.
Read more to patch your thinking.
Your mind deserves the upgrade.
Do yourself a favour.
Read more to install new perspectives.
Read more to patch your thinking.
Your mind deserves the upgrade.
In accelerating change, when everything shifts faster than you can standardise it, repeatability becomes a liability disguised as competence. Breakthroughs emerge from outliers that break your patterns, not from optimising what you already do well.
Did you back up your weekend?
Unsure where to land in the busy cafeteria, he heads for the weirdest-looking table. He approaches the trio of colleagues sitting around a diagram built from cutlery and condiment packets. Is this tak...
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In accelerating change, when everything shifts faster than you can standardise it, repeatability becomes a liability disguised as competence. Breakthroughs emerge from outliers that break your patterns, not from optimising what you already do well.
Reposted by Pawel Halicki
If your child’s closest friends existed only through a headset, would it matter as long as they were happy and chattering in three languages?
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The kids our son is playing with are not real
She glows in the summer sun, her outline softened by his headset's comfort filters. As breeze plays with her hair, his gaze drifts across the city park to their highlighted son, chattering playfully i...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If your child’s closest friends existed only through a headset, would it matter as long as they were happy and chattering in three languages?
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/the-kids-o...
practicalfutures.substack.com/p/the-kids-o...
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AI will become the time machine for strategy.
Not for predicting the future, but for exploring the multiverse of timelines and what-if scenarios before committing to a single path.
Decision-makers who mine these parallel universes will see around corners their competitors won't even know exist.
Not for predicting the future, but for exploring the multiverse of timelines and what-if scenarios before committing to a single path.
Decision-makers who mine these parallel universes will see around corners their competitors won't even know exist.
May I borrow your timeline?
Ignoring his attention filter, she slips unannounced into his work pod. The translucent red barrier flickers as she passes through, smearing the distorted visuals around them like ink dissolving in wa...
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April 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
AI will become the time machine for strategy.
Not for predicting the future, but for exploring the multiverse of timelines and what-if scenarios before committing to a single path.
Decision-makers who mine these parallel universes will see around corners their competitors won't even know exist.
Not for predicting the future, but for exploring the multiverse of timelines and what-if scenarios before committing to a single path.
Decision-makers who mine these parallel universes will see around corners their competitors won't even know exist.
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The future starts when you take action.
December 2, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The future starts when you take action.
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In the age of AI, curiosity is your only renewable advantage.
When AI has all the answers, your edge isn't knowledge.
It's curiosity.
Protect your curiosity like your future depends on it.
Because it does.
When AI has all the answers, your edge isn't knowledge.
It's curiosity.
Protect your curiosity like your future depends on it.
Because it does.
We switched your curiosity provider
With their apartment finally in calm mode, he could stay on the couch forever, but there are still things to discuss tonight. The wine’s complex aroma is a pleasant surprise after the chaotic day he’d...
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March 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In the age of AI, curiosity is your only renewable advantage.
When AI has all the answers, your edge isn't knowledge.
It's curiosity.
Protect your curiosity like your future depends on it.
Because it does.
When AI has all the answers, your edge isn't knowledge.
It's curiosity.
Protect your curiosity like your future depends on it.
Because it does.
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We lie that we love simplicity while secretly clutching the comforting structure of complexity.
But when AI handles the complexity, will we be ready to embrace simplicity?
But when AI handles the complexity, will we be ready to embrace simplicity?
April 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We lie that we love simplicity while secretly clutching the comforting structure of complexity.
But when AI handles the complexity, will we be ready to embrace simplicity?
But when AI handles the complexity, will we be ready to embrace simplicity?
When a stack of AIs can
run a compliant company on autopilot, all expertise is reduced to judgment, taste, and relationships, unlocking the long tail of business models. Founders own blueprints, not plants.
They’re building digital rain
Afternoons like this always make her wonder if their couch is big enough to run both their companies. My networking mesh is showing strange correlations since you put your company on autopilot. You jo...
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
When a stack of AIs can
run a compliant company on autopilot, all expertise is reduced to judgment, taste, and relationships, unlocking the long tail of business models. Founders own blueprints, not plants.
Reposted by Pawel Halicki
When you use AI to think, you become unstoppable.
When you outsource thinking to AI, you become artificially incompetent.
When you outsource thinking to AI, you become artificially incompetent.
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
When you use AI to think, you become unstoppable.
When you outsource thinking to AI, you become artificially incompetent.
When you outsource thinking to AI, you become artificially incompetent.