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Future Design Inquiries. October 2025

Hello from ENSO, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. American individualism: individual accumulation or individual responsibility? Yvon Chouinard has spent his

Future Design Inquiries. September 2025

Hello from ENSO, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. What we’re reflecting on Productive Friction My first class in college

Future Design Inquiries. August 2025

Hello from ENSO, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. What we’re reflecting on The goo of thinking: A humble ode

Future Design Inquiries. July 2025

Hello from ENSO, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. What we’re reflecting on It’s time to redesign everything There

Future Design Inquiries. June 2025

Hello from ENSO, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. What we’re reflecting on Back to nature (culture by design) At

Future Design Inquiries. May 2025

Hello from Enso, a future design company. We’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.  Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get our thoughts in your inbox every so often. What we’re reflecting on The value in values If capitalism had

Future Design Inquiries. April 2025

This month: A manifesto, it's time for building, the scarcity campaign, perpetual business, scale wins the future, designing flourishing organizations, the Swedish philosophy of Lagom and cake parties. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some

Future Design Inquiries. March 2025

This month: Fear as an antidote to action, what people want most from their leaders (hope), orientation in revolutions, the abundance agenda in housing, Unilever and the case for better capitalism, why listening matters, random acts of kindness, Plutchik’s wheel, Station Q, how Olipop beat OpenAI, and teaching empathy.

Future Design Inquiries. February 2025

This month: Optimism takes work; coffee helps, the trust deficit, zero-sum thinking and both-sides-ism, the 'revirescence' and 'the disruption nexus,' positive Visions of Climate Futures, possibility journalism, and start-ups working on the loneliness epidemic (if there is one). Hello from your friends at enso, a future

Future Design Inquiries. January 2025

This month: Are people the new brands?, write the ending first, considering multiple futures, leading to win by playing to our strengths, and from pyramids to circles of community. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things

Future Design Inquiries. December 2024

This month: Generative chaos, bold leaps, is competition overrated? the experimenting society, repeat entrepreneurs, optimal confidence, underrated ways to change the world, algorithms and creativity, work wellbeing, eating together as an antidote to loneliness, Nazca lines, competitive landscaping, AI grandma & a new enso website. Hello from your friends at

Future Design Inquiries. November 2024

This month: Who is responsible for fixing our societal problems – the individual or the system?, getting rich while working to save the world, greatness and joy, don’t let the bad apples spoil your view of humanity, and the best story wins. Hello from your friends at enso, a future

Future Design Inquiries. October 2024

This month: The power of joy and how we win, circular humanity, beyond atomization (dopamine cartels, efficiency vs. craft, 'harambee' and the 'story of us'), and from logic to leaps: a new paradigm for CEOs in the age of AI. Hello from your friends at enso,

Future Design Inquiries. September 2024

This month: A future worth fighting for, watching sports is good for your health, how we win with joy, listen to your emotions → make better decisions, curiosity vs. distraction, and the benefits of therapy focused on enhancing positive emotions. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For

Future Design Inquiries. August 2024

Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective. And we welcome your reactions, additions, and suggestions – reach out news@enso.co. Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get

Future Design Inquiries. July 2024

Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective. And we welcome your reactions, additions, and suggestions – reach out news@enso.co. Want regular inquiries? Subscribe here to get

Future Design Inquiries. June 2024

Designing the future Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.

Future Design Inquiries. May 2024

Designing the future Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.

Future Design Inquiries. April 2024

Designing the future Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.

Future Design Inquiries. February 2024

Designing the future Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective.

Future Design Inquiries. January 2024

Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company, and happy new year. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our

Future Design Inquiries. December 2023

Designing the future Futures happen by default or by design. Here are some things we think push past the default. Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company, and happy last month of 2023. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring

Future Design Inquiries, September 2023

Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company, and thanks to those of you who voiced your support for this little side project. For anyone new here, we’re sharing the things that make us think, bring us joy or shift our perspective. And we welcome your reactions,

Future Design Inquiries, August 2023

Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. At dinner the night that enso was born, one of us opened a fortune cookie that became a founding principle. We’ve come to believe that future design is the practice of optimism. And within that, we’ve found that

Future Design Inquiries is a monthly newsletter from enso.

Hello from your friends at enso, a future design company. At dinner the night that enso was born, one of us opened a fortune cookie that became a founding principle: Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. We’ve come to believe that future design is the practice of optimism. And