Some things that happened at the Near Future Laboratory the last weeks of 2023 including a day trip to SFO using a travel voucher that was going to expire at the end of the year, meeting with the NFL gang for an awesome lunch and chat, hanging with Will Carey from https://formation.eco to continue working on the meaning, purpose, and offering of this reinvigorated evolution of Near Future Laboratory. There were also a bunch of (other people's) podcasts that dropped (links below). And it was the 9 year anniversary of OMATA which had me go back and reflect on how I used Design Fiction to help me create a future vision of the company and share that vision with investors who were so enthralled with this vision that they ended up buying the whole company.

Links
https://formation.eco

https://medium.com/design-fictions/why-did-i-write-an-annual-report-from-the-future-849cf12b0687

Reality Plus
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/realitypl-us/id1722133066?i=1000639248112
https://youtu.be/ld6FLoCH3Vw?si=NYJEXdD3jLDIybdg

Expedition Works' Journey with Purpose
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/julian-bleecker-a-little-bit-more-curious/id1697389263?i=1000638677720

In Clear Focus / Design Fiction
https://bigeyeagency.com/design-fiction-with-julian-bleecker/