Field Notes5 notes

Notes for deciding before urgency closes your options.

Few notes, none for filler. We publish when a signal deserves to become a decision — and the full archive of what we scan is open.

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Latest noteSignal interpretation · Aug 27, 2026 · 6 min readThe annex that decides fifteen yearsA technical requirement changed the economics of every new renewable generation project in Mexico through 2030. It does not live in a law or in a regulation: it lives in the annex of an administrative call for applications that has already revised its own calendar three times. The public debate is whether the requirement is right. For anyone financing a project, the question that matters is a different one: how hard is it to change.Read the note →
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How each Field Note is built.

Every note follows five steps, in order: from the loose signal to the decision it opens. The angle of entry changes, not the rigor.

ReadSignalWhat changed and where we saw it, dated and traceable.
InterpretSystemic tensionThe forces colliding beneath that signal.
DecideStrategic questionThe question your organization would need to answer.
DesignImplicationWhat moves for your sector if the signal matures.
SustainDecision it opensThe option available today that gets costlier if you wait.
ReadSignalWhat changed and where we saw it, dated and traceable.
InterpretSystemic tensionThe forces colliding beneath that signal.
DecideStrategic questionThe question your organization would need to answer.
DesignImplicationWhat moves for your sector if the signal matures.
SustainDecision it opensThe option available today that gets costlier if you wait.
Signal interpretationA concrete move in the Mexican environment and who it forces to decide.
Tension mapOne underlying conflict cutting across sectors, seen whole.
Method noteA decision instrument from the inside, with a real de-identified case.

What this gives you.

You see regulatory, technological and market change months before it makes the news.

Every signal ends in a decision your organization can still make in time.

The same radar we use on client projects, open and auditable.

Before the note, the signal.

Not every signal becomes a note, but every one is recorded: verified and inferred, what matured and what faded.

Futures5
Innovation & Business10
City & Living Systems8
Culture & Society8
Emerging Technologies8
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A note shows you the tension. A session turns it into your decision.

When a note touches a real nerve in your organization, the next step isn't reading more: it's working that decision.

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