TCN Is Not a Skills Category
What our language about migration reveals—and conceals—about people, work and capability.
31 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead the essayThinking from the NEXUS
Ideas. Evidence.
A different perspective.
Some pieces begin with evidence. Others with an observation, a question or something emerging from our work. Here they sit within the wider Leonardo 2050 inquiry.
Current perspective
What lies beyond the label?
Administrative categories can organise a process. They cannot explain a person. This essay asks what becomes possible when employers, institutions and the economy distinguish legal status, current work and human capability.
Beyond the Budget
The space between policy and progress.
29 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead the essayThree questions for 2050
Society. Relationship. Capability.
Three essays move from the divisions emerging within society, to the human relationships through which progress gains meaning, and finally to the capabilities organisations fail to see when people become headcount.
A Tale of Two Europes
The continent I was born into, and the one I am witnessing today.
25 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead the essay
The Space Between Us
Why the next renaissance must begin with human relationship.
25 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead the essay
Thinking People Beyond Headcount
Why capability, judgement and potential matter more than the number on a workforce plan.
25 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead the essayFrom ThinkPeople Nexus
Published at source. Gathered here for Leonardo 2050.
Each piece below opens at its canonical ThinkPeople Nexus publication, where the full article and its original context are maintained.
What Is the Market Telling Us About Our Roles?
What Malta’s vacancies, productivity signals and skills pathways reveal about the work we are designing.
24 October 2026 · Jesmond SalibaRead at ThinkPeople Nexus
Do We Really Understand the Market for Our Roles?
What a difficult-to-fill role may be telling us about demand, skills, salaries and competition.
22 October 2026 · Charmaine FarrugiaRead at ThinkPeople Nexus
The Most Expensive Way to Learn About Your Own People
Why the AI-era advantage belongs to organisations that amplify capability.
15 October 2026Read at ThinkPeople Nexus
Malta’s Headcount Economy
Perhaps it is time to connect the arguments.
8 October 2026Read at ThinkPeople Nexus
RENaiSSANCE
Perhaps the AI age needs more than a technological revolution.
16 September 2026Read at ThinkPeople Nexus
Why We Built from Gozo
Periphery was never the compromise. It was part of the proposition.
16 September 2026Read at ThinkPeople NexusThe 17% Behind Malta’s Digitalisation Headline
What a headline statistic tells us—and what it does not.
16 September 2026Read at ThinkPeople NexusThe continuing inquiry