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.
Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
Given that it is Easter: Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a new kidney or liver. Or, alternatively, you might one day get your brain placed into a younger clone.
R3 Bio emerged from stealth with a proposal that reads like science fiction: full-body replacement through brainless human clones grown as biological spare-parts systems. The ethical, scientific, and regulatory questions are enormous — but so is the longevity market driving the conversation.
The Head Transplant Doctor Will See You Now
Or you can keep your head: Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero insists his plan for the first human head transplant is inevitable—and will unlock radical life extension.
Canavero has spent years building the case that severed spinal cords can be reconnected, positioning head transplantation not as spectacle but as the logical endpoint of regenerative medicine. The medical establishment remains deeply skeptical — but the conversation has moved from “impossible” to “not yet.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a70295783/human-head-transplant-doctor/
Prompt for leadership team
If the biological boundaries of human lifespan are about to shift dramatically, what second- and third-order effects should we be watching for in our industry — workforce planning, customer lifecycles, insurance models, talent retention?
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/
“Super Bizarre” – Neuroscientists Discover That Adult Brain Is Filled With Millions of “Silent Synapses”
Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of “silent synapses” in the adult brain—unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.
World’s smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries
Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, the team has opened the door to storing information that could last for centuries or even millennia without needing power or maintenance.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260328043603.htm
Q&A: Robots can’t feel; these sensors could change that
A research team is using pressure sensors — tiny devices, roughly the size of a paperclip, that can measure the force applied over an area — to design a highly sensitive electronic “skin” to use alongside robots and prosthetic limbs.
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/qa-robots-cant-feel-these-sensors-could-change
MIT Engineers Rewire Living Muscle To Power Paralyzed Organs From The Inside
A myoneural actuator, or MNA. It is, in principle, a living motor: a piece of your own skeletal muscle, reprogrammed at the level of its nerve supply, capable of squeezing a paralyzed intestine back into peristaltic rhythm or stretching a residual limb tendon to restore a sense of proprioception to an amputee.
https://scienceblog.com/mit-engineers-rewire-living-muscle-to-power-paralyzed-organs-from-the-inside/
