Future Here Now: Disrupt...but not like that

The Big Idea

Note: I was on an advising trip to rural Mississippi this week. Between tight schedules and jumbled flights and internet problems, most of this week’s emails were not able to be sent at th usual times. You got Try It On on Tuesday. You will get Signals later today and To Do and selections tomorrow. And hopefully back in the saddle properly next week. Thanks.

This week, we’ll be focusing on the question of disruption — when it’s needed, when it’s helpful, when it’s not, and when it’s downright hurtful. There’s a school of thought that says that disruption, especially technology-driven disruption, is a long-term good that advances growth and economic progress, while we all also know people and communities and businesses that view any kind of change as an existential threat.

Like most issues in the emerging Fusion Era, this question is more a yes-and than the either-or that our Industrial Era minds might assume. The recent challenges at Twitter and Silicon Valley Bank and others point t…