Mick Costigan

Futures @salesforce. Board Chair @longnow. Innovation, futures/history, political economy. 🇮🇪/CA. Opinions strictly mine.

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

Delighted to see this byline from @peterschwartz2 (with help from @davidberthy) drawing on our Salesforce Futures team's work on the future of trust and technology, recognizing the dangers we face but also pointing to better possibilities https://t.co/nwnazZUumZ

[Zahra Bahrololoumi CBE @ZahraS_B]

“Most of the stories about #AI come from science fiction, unfortunately, & they’re not particularly useful.”

VP of @Salesforce Futures @micostigan shares the real-world challenges facing companies as #AgenticEnterprises emerge.

Article in @cxtodaynews: https://t.co/pV62NkvEDK

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

An amazing archive of thinking to explore

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

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[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

Scott is one of the best in the field and this is a fun conversation

[Slate @Slate]

Futurist Scott Smith explains why we’re in an age of “risk-maxxing.” https://t.co/QhBtcyBW5Q

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Talking to the great @stewartbrand about how to maintain civilization (along with your car, motorcycle, bicycle, and everything else technological), based on his fabulous new book Maintenance: Of Everything:
https://t.co/EqUPiWuqTN

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Need a new excuse to visit The Interval, our award-winning bar, café, and library? This month’s cocktail special is worth the trip alone. May’s Short Here is the Velvet Fedora. John describes it as “the whiskey cousin of a margarita,” and a riff on the Ninth Ward.

The Ninth Ward is traditionally a spicy, citrus-forward cocktail made with bourbon, and named after the eastside district of New Orleans. John swapped the bourbon for the floral, velvety notes of Japanese whisky, creating something refreshing and exceptionally smooth.

Ingredients:
Nikka Days Japanese whiskey
Velvet Falernum
Elderflower liqueur
Creole bitters
Elderflower salted rim

On the menu through the end of May. See the full menu of craft cocktails, tea, and coffee here: https://t.co/3dKuhQd6mi

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

"That fact alone leaves us feeling like redwood trees trying to communicate with a hummingbird.”

@stewartbrand talks to @ezraklein about maintenance, tech acceleration, AI, YouTube, and tug boats -> https://t.co/StknUkYbP0

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

Huge results today! I loved the focus on real companies deploying agents alongside humans to achieving. success. I think we'll be hearing a lot more about the new Agentic Work Unit concept also. https://t.co/BdgdbVjvKJ

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

We just closed FY26, the biggest year in Salesforce history, and favor FY27 Guidance ! 🚀

FY27 Guidance: $46.2B revenue, 34.3% Non-GAAP Operating Margin, 20.9% GAAP Operating Margin

- $41.5B revenue (+10% Y/Y)
- 34.1% Non-GAAP (+110 bps y/y) & 20.1% GAAP operating margin 
- $15B Operating cash flow (+15% y/y) 
- $72.4B Total RPO (+14% y/y) 

Here's the thing: every AI agent needs somewhere to land. The data, business rules, and a conversational layer for humans & agents.

That place is Salesforce. No one is delivering more agents for the enterprise than us. 

Let me tell you what's happening 🧵

Check out the full results: https://t.co/Nbofi6JUos

P.S. This isn’t my first SaaSpocalypse

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘹 has arrived. A collection of original essays offering new perspectives on one of the counterculture’s most influential publications. Congratulations to @GrayAreaorg on this beautiful new volume, we couldn’t be more excited to share it!

This publication follows the triumphant 02023 launch of the Whole Earth Index (https://t.co/DOVJfBFBXn), which made the complete Whole Earth Catalog accessible online for the first time. 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘹 extends that legacy, excavating the Catalog’s deeper histories, exploring its relevance now, and imagining the futures it still invites us to build. So honored to support this work alongside @internetarchive and see essential cultural tools kept alive.

[npj @TiltingatM3]

Crazy you can see it stop on a dime in 1980—never been more hungry for a history of the Global Volcker Shock

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

How does pace layering apply to investing?

New today on 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, Dave Bujnowski of Baillie Gifford uses case studies from FarmVille, Apple and IBM to explain why “it’s good to be infrastructure”.

https://t.co/zKjoV9EreF

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Love to see @stewartbrand's Maintenance of Everything from @stripepress named in the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers!

https://t.co/LNtBFRjHhG

[Salesforce News & Insights @SalesforceNews]

A team of futurists from Salesforce recommends what companies should do to prepare for agentic AI.

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

@zhengdongwang This was a fantastic read thank you - here via @stewartbrand btw. Loved the Isaiah Berlin shoutout. Ignatieff book good but essays even better - Pursuit of the Ideal. This podcast series adds useful context https://t.co/60Qe3j85i5

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

A New-Year column based on my MAINTENANCE book.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

We hosted a monumental season of Long Now Talks this year—and 02026 is another unmissable season.

02025 highlights included Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Ahmed Best, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Kate Crawford + many more extraordinary thinkers

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Another first this year: @chrismichel became our Artist in Residence, creating stunning portraits of each Long Now speaker. Such a gift.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Giving-season reminder: Long Now has really unforgettable gifts. Give a gift membership to a season of incredible Talks, or a pendant containing an archive of 1,000 microscopic pages. Rare objects you truly can't find anywhere else.
Explore here: https://t.co/RlK5QVGqP7

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 come and go. 𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 continues.
- @stewartbrand

What are the elements of a durable civilization? Stewart Brand explains: https://t.co/dUipCS9qY9

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

@stewartbrand Great review Stewart! Apple News link here for subscribers to that
https://t.co/P66rqyuBvK

[Mick Costigan @micostigan]

Love this project - well done @zander!

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

“You are burning the books by not saving the books.”
Alexander Rose built a library at Burning Man that would burn to the ground unless every one helped save it.
Did the books survive?