Based in Melbourne, Australia, nonzerosumgame is a blog by Pierre Meneaud. A blog for the AI-literate, soul-heavy, and future-haunted.

I write at the intersection of machine intelligence, parenthood, and music—where future strategy collides with real life. Expect thoughts on:

  • Brands rebuilt by AI

  • Raising three kids in a rewired world

  • Sound, synthesis, and feeling

  • Grief, tenderness, and radical hope

Not hot takes. Honest futures.
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This Used to Be ‘The Short Side of Long’

This Used to Be ‘The Short Side of Long’

Pierre Meneaud
Thoughts

Now it’s NONZEROSUMGAME

And I'm finally writing again.

For a while, life swallowed the signal.

Between family, grief, and the all-consuming hum of work—especially my time at Patties Food Group—writing drifted to the background. There were deadlines, restructures, school runs, brand campaigns, emotional whiplash, and moments of such sharp beauty or pain I couldn’t translate them. Not then.

Now, I can.

This isn’t just a return to writing. It’s a re-entry into thought. Bolder. Sharper. Unfiltered.

Why NONZEROSUMGAME?

Because the old rules are dead. We’re no longer playing to win—we’re playing to survive together.
Because I believe in mutualism over competition, even in a world obsessed with clicks, conversions, and quarterly reports. Because I’ve worked inside the machine.Because I’ve watched brands mutate under the weight of AI. Because I’ve felt the ache of being a single parent trying to raise three small humans while the world rewrites itself in code.

This blog is for the AI-literate, soul-heavy, and future-haunted. For people who still believe words matter.
For those allergic to hot takes, but hungry for honest ones.

What You’ll Find Here:

  • The synthetic soul of branding: how AI is rewriting everything we thought was “human” about creativity

  • Future-thinking grounded in real life: no utopias, no doom—just clear eyes and possible paths

  • Parenthood under pressure: raising kids in a post-linear world

  • Music, modular synthesis, and mental rewiring

  • Loss. Joy. Hope. Rage. Clarity. Contradiction.

This is the start of something. Not polished. Not perfect. But absolutely necessary. If that resonates..welcome.
If it unnerves you, well..good.If it moves you, stay a while.

Let's rebuild futures that aren’t zero-sum.

— Pierre

On a final note ...Default to honesty all the time and write more.  

The World of Autonomy

The World of Autonomy