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Oliver Buchannon
Megan Salole

Hope fires everywhere I look

Hope fires everywhere I look

A little kindling for your week

May 30, 2026

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2 min read

Make AI hope not AI horror

Make AI hope not AI horror

The questions underneath the hype – and why Aotearoa NZ is better placed than most to answer them.

May 16, 2026

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3 min read

They Were Wrong About Your Intelligence

They Were Wrong About Your Intelligence

On the intelligences modernity sidelined, and why their time has come.

May 9, 2026

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4 min read

Manufacturing Hope

Manufacturing Hope

What inner chemistry are you cooking up in your thought lab?

May 2, 2026

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2 min read

Hope's caution: don't race to resilience

Hope's caution: don't race to resilience

Resilience gets all the press. But breakdown deserves its moment. We've all gotten very good at bouncing back. What if we tried staying down for a bit?

Apr 25, 2026

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2 min read

What Does Hope Do With Fear?

What Does Hope Do With Fear?

A field guide to functioning while quietly terrified.

Apr 18, 2026

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3 min read

Hope is Anti-Fragile

Hope is Anti-Fragile

The fuel crisis shows us are living in fragile system. Now we get to build one that strengthens under pressure.

Apr 11, 2026

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8 min read

Navigating Hope

Navigating Hope

A guide to charting new narratives and embracing the power of imagination

Apr 4, 2026

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7 min read

Truth, Realness and Beauty

Truth, Realness and Beauty

You deserve nothing less.

Mar 21, 2026

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5 min read

Repair is Hope’s Home

Repair is Hope’s Home

On bullying, belonging and learning to cross the threshold

Mar 7, 2026

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4 min read

Between the Spa and the Op Shop

Between the Spa and the Op Shop

A personal reckoning with consumption, empire, and what makes a life feel aligned and hopeful

Feb 28, 2026

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7 min read

Falling through the clouds of false hope and toxic positivity

Falling through the clouds of false hope and toxic positivity

landing softly on the ground of real hope.

Feb 21, 2026

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5 min read

Chapter 1  - ​​The Polycrisis Is a Nervous System Event

Chapter 1 - ​​The Polycrisis Is a Nervous System Event

A peek into the Hope Book as it takes shape

Feb 14, 2026

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11 min read

Hope Needs a Break

Hope Needs a Break

But it is back with a passion!

Feb 6, 2026

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6 min read

Energy Is the Real Currency

Energy Is the Real Currency

Once you see it, the economy stops looking complicated and starts looking transformable.

Nov 21, 2025

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5 min read

All Hands on Deck for the Solutions Economy

All Hands on Deck for the Solutions Economy

Put our collective ingenuity to work designing an economy that solves, not extracts.

Nov 15, 2025

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7 min read

Hope goes Ringside: Optimists vs Pessimists

Hope goes Ringside: Optimists vs Pessimists

An epic showdown between bright sides and doomsayers – and the quiet contender that changes the game: hope.

Nov 8, 2025

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5 min read

Hope lives beyond the perception of now.

Hope lives beyond the perception of now.

The new world is already forming, it’s asking us to live it forward into being. But first, we have to unlearn what keeps us bound to the old.

Nov 1, 2025

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5 min read

Hope is Fractal

Hope is Fractal

Problems (and by extension, solutions) repeat at scale. The patterns of harm, healing, and hope echo from the smallest moment of care to the largest systems we live within.

Oct 25, 2025

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5 min read

No Plan B - A Hope Masterclass from the Ghetto

No Plan B - A Hope Masterclass from the Ghetto

Teaching us to become better agents of hope.

Oct 18, 2025

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6 min read

We’re probably all infected – but there’s a cure

We’re probably all infected – but there’s a cure

How to spot the neoliberal spin, ditch the doubt, and reclaim your imagination.

Oct 10, 2025

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9 min read

Deep diving

Deep diving

It’s time to dive deep beneath the surface.

Sep 27, 2025

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3 min read

The Story Is the Cure

The Story Is the Cure

Rewrite the future. Reconnect all the parts. Get great brain chemistry FTW.

Sep 19, 2025

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4 min read

What IF...

What IF...

Cracking the code on the Hope Dispatch meant gathering up all our story sparks and setting the world ablaze with hope?

Sep 13, 2025

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4 min read

Flourishing Together: Hope and Intentionality in the Age of AI

Flourishing Together: Hope and Intentionality in the Age of AI

What if the true paradigm shift isn’t the technology, but in us?

Sep 6, 2025

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2 min read

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