Am I the weak signal?

Just about to do a talk on weak signals. But I’ve had a thought. What if I am the weak signal? What if I am the canary in the cage?

Looking back at what I’ve written about the economy, Europe, the internet, smart phones, social media and even Russia over the last 13 years I have been right far more than I’ve been wrong. Usually I’ve been 5-10 years ahead of other people too.

My next book was going to be about thinking, but maybe that’s precisely what I need to stop doing. I need to disconnect. I think I’m descending into madness, which I hope is just me and not everyone else in 5-10 years time. Seems I’m not alone though.

What’s on my mind?

This is weird. I had a dream that I was Donald Trump’s speach writer last night. And I was writing his speaches on leaves of iceberg lettuce using a dark blue fountain pen. WTF?

More usefully, I woke up around 4am remembering that the name I had just given to someone as a bitcoin expert was in fact a sci-fi writer. Wrong surname. Got to love how the brain works.

Rotten Apple

Switched my computer on, clicked on something I didn’t understand from Apple and found all of my files have vanished. Was then forced to set up an iCloud account against my wishes. Thought I’d get even, but someone had obviously beaten me to it.