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Digital transformation #mindcandy 21 October 2025
The topics are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is that the only way forward is augmented natural intelligence
- Enshittification
- Reinventing work
- Spotify
- Data management
- Data hygiene, governance, and experimentation
- IoT
- Shipping
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-escape-enshittification-trap/
Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.
The CHRO & CIO: Reinventing Work for the AI Era
https://www.shrm.org/executive-network/insights/people-strategy/chro-cio-reinventing-work-ai-era
AI is blurring the lines between HR and IT, making collaboration between these two functions essential for aligning talent, technology, and business outcomes.
Spotify Takes on the ‘Slop Problem’: A New Era of AI Governance in Music
The digital music landscape is at a critical juncture, facing an unprecedented deluge of low-quality, often deceptive, AI-generated content. This phenomenon, dubbed the “slop problem,” threatens to dilute the listening experience for users and undermine the livelihoods of authentic artists.
Why better data management is the key to exceptional customer experience
As the saying goes, “garbage in, garbage out.” No matter how advanced AI models or analytics tools are, they’re only as good as the data they ingest. Without strong data management practices, these systems risk producing misleading or inaccurate insights, biased predictions or irrelevant outputs, all of which can ultimately damage rather than enhance the customer experience
Make Data Ready for AI With Hygiene, Governance, and Experimentation
https://thenewstack.io/make-data-ready-for-ai-with-hygiene-governance-and-experimentation/
For AI projects, data products enable appropriate governance, ensuring that AI models receive the right data in the right way.
The Rise of the Internet of Things (IoT): how everyday objects got a little smarter
https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/indnewswire/rise-internet-things-iot-everyday-1908067444.html
IoT is no longer a niche experiment. In 2023 there were roughly 16.6 billion connected IoT devices, and analysts expected that to rise to about 18.8 billion by the end of 2024 with continued growth into 2025 and beyond
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: Sensing the future
https://www.thedcn.com.au/news/emerging-technology-sensing-the-future
ON THE back of the continued push for global logistics and end-to-end supply chain management, there is a growing acceptance of the optimisation and yield on offer to the shipping industry, and ultimately, to exporters and consumers through greater uptake, use and reliance on technology.
