Launching For All Our Futures

Welcome to the inaugural post and newsletter of For All Our Futures, a small (because we’re just starting) but growing part of a network of writers, professionals, technologists, and other critical progressives pushing back against oppressive trends in business and politics to build a better society for the rest of this century. 

As the editor-in-chief and (so far) head writer of this newsletter, let me tell you something about myself and what kind of experience and knowledge I bring to this whole affair. For the last several years, I’ve worked in higher education in Canada, specifically Toronto. I’ve been a faculty member most recently, but my experience also includes roles as an academic manager and administrative leader. My deeper background is as a researcher in the humanities and social sciences. I got my PhD from McMaster University in my 20s, presented original research at conferences and events around the world, and continue to publish in non-paywalled forums. I’ve also worked on several entrepreneurial projects over the years in media, the arts, and higher education. 

All this experience gives me a unique perspective on our current moment in business and wider society: the power of fascist, racist, and militarized governments; the tightening grip of AI-powered mega-corporations on our economies, workers, and ordinary people seeking knowledge; social assaults on minorities, sub-alterns, and non-conformists of all kinds. 

But my perspective also represents a broader group of people whose creativity is being ignored in this moment as well. I’m starting For All Our Futures as the college program where I’ve worked for the last four years closes for good. Colleges and universities, private and public both, have been closing programs and ending the careers of thousands of well-educated faculty and managers. In Canada, that’s largely because of long-running government cuts to our higher education systems, and strict new regulations that prevent people around the world from using student visas to look for new work and business opportunities. In the United States, state-level cuts to support combine with active oppression and control from an authoritarian federal government. Newsletters like this have a heavy task of building and strengthening the networks that can help progressive, inclusive ideas persist through this difficult time. 

Future instalments of For All Our Futures will explore different aspects of this ongoing crisis of our society through my individual writing, as well as interviews and collaborations with like-minded researchers and entrepreneurs. We are finding our way out of this, and will make the rest of the 21st century better than what we’ve let happen for its first quarter. 

If you want to join this vision, please subscribe and start engaging as we launch new initiatives. 

Some of you originally signed up for this newsletter earlier in 2025, when it was the primary channel for new projects with the Chartered Institute of Marketing Management of Ontario. The original plan was to be a forum for issues in contemporary business and management education. A couple of months after those newsletters first posted, myself and all my collaborators left CIMMO due to some irresolvable conflicts in the organization. Then all our program design clients left too, since they were only interested in the CIMMO branding and not our actual skills as education and training professionals. So that wasn’t any fun.

If anyone wants to unsubscribe because of how we’re shifting topics and broadening our focus, you can, but I don’t recommend it, because For All Our Futures is going to be a lot more interesting than anything we could have done under the CIMMO brand.

Here’s a set of topics and perspectives you’ll likely see over the rest of this year, based on my current work and research. 

The Future of Higher Education. For a lot of folks who dedicated chunks of their lives to working in universities and colleges, we aren’t going to see much of a future in higher education. Universities and colleges are reaching their breaking points right now, but the institutions have been under pressure for a long time. Not only my own career, personally, depend on figuring out new ways for experience and skills in the education sector to find opportunity elsewhere. A lot of intelligent, creative people are going to spend the rest of their lives stagnating and crumbling if we don’t make those opportunities. So I want to make For All of Our Futures a place where we can imagine and develop those new possibilities. 

Artificial Intelligence. Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, and only a few are doing so intelligently. This is a complex technology with a lot of fascinating and problematic applications for all industries. You can definitely count me among the critical voices, since a lot of my research on the topic over the last couple of years has taken me to the conclusion that this industry needs a lot of criticism. 

The superintelligence hype machine is powerful and duplicitous. The science of AI is a lot more complex in its practical execution than a lot of people understand, and that lack of popular understanding plays into the interests of people who would monopolize all the gains that AI technology would get us. 

Trippy Ideas from Many Perspectives. My doctorate was in philosophy, but unlike too many specialists in that discipline, my research interests took me to wide-ranging, diverse areas of thought and science. My research continues today, with similar discoveries and results. So all that background knowledge and continuing investigation into the issues and ideas of our time will bring readers and subscribers a lot of value that can help us all uncover new possibilities of thinking and action, and put them to use. 

If you want to stay on for this journey, subscribe and we’ll get started.