You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Send this to the most curious person in your organisation — or start the conversation.
The unread books in your office “library” are telling you something
There is a bias running through contemporary leadership that we have dressed up as virtue. It is the bias for motion. Busyness as proof of relevance. Activity as the visible currency of seriousness. In this environment, a person sitting quietly with a book is not demonstrating discipline. They are demonstrating that they have time. And having time, in most organizational cultures, is quietly read as an admission of irrelevance.
That is why we invented #Bookbuzz
The leadership question
Where in your organisation has busyness become a hiding place from thinking?
The future fitness move
Run a slow-flow audit. Look at your leadership rhythm and ask where serious reading, reflection and sensemaking actually happen. Not in theory. In the calendar. In meetings. In decisions. In strategy work.
The other prompts:
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12 free books on strategy, innovation, intrapreneurship, AI, future trends and leadership. Each one distils the best thinking from dozens of business books into a single, actionable read. Every book is also available as a BookBuzz session, board briefing or keynote.
https://www.ronimmink.com/books-by-ron-immink/
Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon
A tiny robot developed by Japan’s space agency operated autonomously on the moon for more than 100 minutes and sent a series of images back to Earth.
New tool to help build more reliable DNA nanostructures
Scaffolded DNA and RNA origami is a technique that allows scientists to build tiny, highly precise two- and three-dimensional objects. Because these nanostructures can interact naturally with biological systems, they could have important future uses in health care and agritech.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-tool-reliable-dna-nanostructures.html
What customers consider when using AI to shop
The vast majority of consumers say it’s important to recognize the seller or merchant and check customer reviews before purchasin
https://www.retaildive.com/news/customers-consider-ai-shopping-retail/820880/
The New Entrepreneurship: What Gen Z Is Getting Right
Entrepreneurship is having a moment. LinkedIn recently reported a 69% YoY jump in U.S. LinkedIn members adding ‘founder’ to their profile, while founders, strategic advisors and independent consultants are one of the top 10 fastest-growing jobs in the U.S.
The Third Wave
How strategic planning, perhaps advertising’s most overlooked function, is being redefined
https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/research/advertising/the-third-wave/131784905
A flexible graphene-based neural interface can ‘speak and listen’ to the brain
Neural interfaces are devices that can detect or modulate neuronal activity when placed in contact with the brain. They are already used to treat various conditions related to the nervous system.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-flexible-graphene-based-neural-interface.html
The art, science, and technology of geopolitical scenario planning
Horizon scanning, scenario planning, contingency planning, simulations and tabletop exercises.
Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly
AI is quickly becoming an everyday utility, like electricity. But because it feels invisible, we can easily forget every use has a cost.
Hiding Electronics Inside A Cockroach Makes It A Better Robot
The standard “cyborg insect” wears its electronics like a rucksack, a printed circuit board glued to the thorax, wired into the antennae for steering and the rear sensory organs, the cerci, for go. It works on a flat table. It works rather less well in the cluttered, half-collapsed, pipe-and-rubble environments that are the entire reason anyone wants a steerable cockroach in the first place. The backpack snags. The insect, lopsided and top-heavy, stops behaving like an insect.
https://scienceblog.com/hiding-electronics-inside-a-cockroach-makes-it-a-better-robot/
