Stories Before Objects

Speculative writing lets us test a future without building it first. A fable is cheap to revise and expensive to ignore, and it surfaces the values hidden inside a decision long before the decision is made.

When the story runs ahead of the artifact, the artifact arrives already knowing what it is for. The narrative becomes a brief that constraints can serve rather than fight.

Writing the World You Want

To describe a future plainly is to commit to it. The act of naming a thing makes it answerable, and that accountability is the whole point.