Wardley Maps: How to Cheat at Predicting the Future – with Simon Wardley

Simon Wardley — former CEO and creator of Wardley Mapping — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about how he went from feeling like a "fake CEO" to finding one of the most useful ways of thinking about strategy. Simon also explains how he "cheats" at prediction, calling cloud, serverless, vibe coding, and the rise of intelligent agents years — sometimes decades — before they arrived. They also talk about why data centers are heading to space, what "SpimeScript" will do to every supply chain on Earth, why he thinks China will win the AI race, and how large language models are a non-kinetic form of warfare.

Simon's book can be found here. One of the most useful brief introductions to Wardley Mapping and strategy, by Dave Hora, is here.  

What is High Variance with Danny Buerkli?

High Variance is an interview podcast about a world that has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. Host Danny Buerkli speaks with public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and technologists to ask what is going on and how we should respond.