This post marks the beginning of something slightly different.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing a short, unfolding novella titled
The Emerging Patterns: After Graduating in 2026.

It isn’t a forecast.
It isn’t a manifesto.
And it isn’t an argument about how the world should be.

It’s a story.

A metaphorical one, written to explore what many of us are already sensing, a shift in how we learn, lead, connect, and take responsibility for ourselves and one another.

Rather than offering conclusions, this series is designed to create recognition. To surface patterns that feel familiar but are rarely named. To give language to transitions that are often felt before they’re understood.

Each week, a new chapter will be shared.
At the end, the full story will be available as a single piece.

Today’s post is the Author’s Note.
Not an explanation of what’s coming, but an invitation into the space the story lives in.

  • You don’t need to read it analytically.

  • You don’t need to agree with it.

  • Just notice what resonates.

Sometimes, that’s how learning begins.

 

The Emerging Patterns: After Graduating in 2026

Author’s Note

This book is not an argument.
It is not a prediction.
And it is not a set of instructions.

It is an attempt to name something many of us are already living.

Over recent years, familiar structures have begun to feel less reliable.
Not because they failed, but because the world they were designed for has changed.

Clear roles are softening.
External authority feels less certain.
Linear paths no longer behave as expected.

For some, this brings excitement.
For others, discomfort.
For many, both at once.

The story that follows uses the metaphor of education, not to speak about schools, but about transition. About what it feels like when we move from being guided to being responsible. From waiting for direction to learning how to listen, relate, and choose for ourselves.

You won’t find answers here in the traditional sense.
What you may find instead are patterns you recognise.

Moments where you notice yourself:

  • waiting for clarity that doesn’t arrive

  • feeling drawn back toward familiar authority or old habits

  • experiencing unease when certainty dissolves

  • trusting those who are calm rather than loud

  • learning faster through shared experience than formal direction

The New World School is not a place we enter all at once.
We move through it gradually.
Sometimes confidently.
Sometimes reluctantly.

Graduation, in this sense, is not about having finished learning.
It is about noticing when we have stopped waiting to be told who we are allowed to become.

If this story resonates, trust that response.
You don’t need to agree with it.
You don’t need to analyse it.

Simply notice what it stirs.

That noticing is part of the learning.