Between Stories · Mat Dufour

The world is
between stories.

So are you. That's not a problem. It's where the real work begins.

IBetween Stories

There's a space most people recognize when they find themselves in it. The old story, about who you are, what you're building, where things are going, has stopped holding. The next one isn't written yet. That gap has a name: being between stories. Once you acknowledge you're in it, you can start building.

The three accelerations are making that gap wider for more people, more often. Technology, climate, geopolitics: each one alone would demand serious recalibration. All three at once require something different. Not more information. A way to stay clear, grounded, and intentional while everything external is in motion. That's the work.

Technology

AI is restructuring how we think, work, and trust, faster than any institution can respond.

Climate

The ecological contract is breaking. The signals are already here. The resilience architecture isn't.

Geopolitics

The post-war order is fragmenting. What replaces it shapes everything, including the stories we tell ourselves.

IIWhere this comes from

15+Years in humanitarian management
40Countries, mostly in crisis
4Languages: EN · FR · ES · IT
EMCCSenior Practitioner
MSFEMCCBetween Stories

IIIFrom the latest edition

Vertigo is my newsletter on the three accelerations reshaping our time (technology, climate, geopolitics) and what they do to the people living through them. Here is the latest edition.

No. 26 · October 2026

The last domino landed on a cushion

91% to 95%. Those are the odds that this winter’s El Niño beats every winter since the year 1100, if the forecasts hold. Nearly a thousand years.

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