New book · 2026
The Age of Context
Why intelligence fails without context—and what comes next
Why intelligence fails without context—and what comes next
Nothing means the same thing in every context.
The same behaviour can be a strength in one situation and a weakness in another. The same symptom can point to different causes. The same information can support opposing decisions. An answer can be logically correct and still be completely wrong for the person, moment or system in which it must operate.
Yet we continue to isolate what can only be understood in relation. Across health, relationships, leadership, investing and artificial intelligence, we repeatedly mistake information for understanding and patterns for meaning.
The Age of Context introduces Contextual Reasoning: a way of seeing not only what is happening, but why it means what it means — here, now, and in relation to everything around it.
The next great leap in intelligence will not come from knowing more. It will come from understanding what knowledge means in context.
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The first published account of Contextual Reasoning — an investigation into why understanding depends on far more than information alone.
Coming 2026 · sign up for launchA narrative games trilogy set in a world where what you understand depends entirely on the context you can see. Three stories, one architecture.
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