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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
Boring AI
is Good AI
Gordon
Why AI Scaffolding
Matters More than Use Cases
Flowers · S6
Decentralized
AI is the Future
Goertzel
Canonical
Knowledge is Key
DosSantos
What AI as
Cheap Prediction Means
Gans
Cheap Prediction,
Expensive Change
Goldfarb
Folk Law &
Fax Machines
Pahlka
Inside The
Infinity Machine
Mallaby
Crisis Is
Your Opening
Nitze
The Confabulation
Machine
Ratliff
No Strategy
Without Vision
Evergreen
When Agents Have
Wallets, Trust Is Currency
Cohen Freue
Nuclear Fusion,
No Power Lines
Frankle
The Checklist Your
Deck Is Missing
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Fellows › Richard Mulholland
Contributing Author

Richard Mulholland

UX Magazine Fellow
Richard Mulholland

<p>Tyrannical! Maniacal! Short-tempered! Lover of adjectives! Ruling the Seas of Change from his bed with an iron fist and funny hair. Moving from corporate to corporate smiting mediocrity and bad spelling, leaving a bloody wake of confusion and slack jaws. And, if you&#8217;re nice to him, he will probably get you a present, which saves him having to be nice back. Working capital, his backside&#8230;</p> <p>As the founder and head crazy-person of <a href="https://.missinglink.co.za/">Missing Link</a>, South Africa&#8217;s numero-uno presentation strategy firm, Richard has since spread his ample enthusiasm into the well-charted and oft&#8217; badly navigated waters of business thinking, making waves and overturning the conventional. He has two blogs, <a href="https://.joblog.co.za/">Jo&#8217;blog</a> and <a href="https://.helloworldblog.com/">Hello_World</a>, under his belt, with a few more tricks under his sleeve, and is also a malleable speaker. His credo: Question everything. His favourite word: Dude.</p>

Contributions to UXM

2 pieces
1
Book Excerpt  ·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis
2
Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  ·  7 pieces  ·  April 2025