You can’t predict the future, but you can build the fitness to respond to it. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your leadership team can notice and anticipate change and respond. Hence mind candy — an information stream to help you and your team think about what’s next.
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruiting, fund raising, etc., and take stock of what changed around you. Or your company will die. The companies who survive will be the ones who can look at what they’ve built and ask: if I were starting this company today, using today’s tools in today’s market, what would I actually build?
https://steveblank.com/2026/03/17/your-startup-is-probably-dead-on-arrival/
Prompt for leadership team
That is a question that every organisation should ask on a regular basis. Discuss with your MT. If you need help, DM me.
The other prompts
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence
Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness. Also available as a board briefing.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
An AI Learned To Decode Phantom Limb Movements From Inside The Nerve: It Could Change Prosthetic Legs Forever
For the first time in humans, scientists decoded intended movements across all three joints of a missing leg, including knee, ankle, and toes, directly from nerve signals.
https://studyfinds.org/ai-learned-to-decode-phantom-limb-movements/
These Mini Brains Just Learned to Solve a Classic Engineering Problem
In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart.
Answer Engine Optimization
Gartner estimates that traditional search engine volume will drop 25 percent by 2026 as users shift to AI-powered alternatives. And the way those tools find, evaluate, and cite your content is fundamentally different from how a search engine does it.
https://juliasolorzano.com/blog/2026/03/16/answer-engine-optimization/
The companies doing the most innovative work in sustainability in 2026
As governments steps back, the most innovative companies and cities in sustainability on this year’s list are moving forward
https://www.fastcompany.com/91497306/sustainability-most-innovative-companies-2026
From adoption to orchestration — marketing to humans and agents for an agentic-powered future.
Humans: Brands have just seconds, not second chances. Why experience orchestration is the real competitive advantage.
https://business.adobe.com/blog/adoption-to-orchestration-marketing-to-humans-and-agents
‘Reality Decay’ Is at the Root of All the Bad News
Reality decay…….
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/reality-decay-2757167
AI Is Rewriting the Old Rules of Google Search and SEO
Winning the search war now depends less on keywords and more on what strangers are saying about you on Reddit
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-search-seo-ai-tactics-5efb9f99
A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow ‘Organ Sacks’ to Replace Animal Testing
R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions.
Sustainability is dead—long live purpose
ESG is not purpose. AI is not purpose. Purpose is a human-centered commitment rooted in vision and values that answers a simple but essential question: Why? It is intentional, strategic, and foundational to trust and longevity
https://www.fastcompany.com/91515890/sustainability-is-dead-long-live-purpose
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/wristband-enables-wearers-control-robotic-hand-with-own-movements-0325
