Category Archives: Thoughts and speculation

Direction Not Destination – my latest post on substack is part 1 of the promised series on how the past year has been transformative for me (probably).

“During the last year a lot has been changing inside my head. Or at least that’s how it seems.
As promised in my previous post, A Creative Collision of Collaborative Curiosity, I’m attempting to unpack and explore this. With the caveat that you’ll be kind to me if it all goes a bit ‘wonky’.”

https://nudgethefuture.substack.com/p/direction-not-destination

Our Data, Our Future: episode 4

21st January 2026

Stephen Oram

The latest episode of “Our Data, Our Future” has ‘dropped’ on to my substack.

This one’s about data dependency and contingency planning (from a society and individual viewpoint). As usual it’s short (just over 7 minutes) and has a few observations and a few ideas which are meant to begin a wider and deeper conversation.

https://nudgethefuture.substack.com/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-e77

Has it been a pivotal year?

12th January 2026

Stephen Oram

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Because I forget to pause and celebrate, I usually do a round-up of the past year, as much for my own sake as anything else.

However, 2025 feels as if it was a seriously pivotal year; my approach to writing and other work, and possibly life itself, began to change.

So… I’m going to write a series of reflections, probably as a month-by-month set of posts, which will attempt to chart and understand this.

These will be posted on substack, where I say a little more about this and where you can subscribe to get alerts to new posts.