Every technology follows an abstraction curve In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Like everyone else, I got distracted by the headline. The obvious implications were for education, white-collar work and professional knowledge. If a machine could pass an MBA exam, what did that say about business schools, consultants, analysts, managers and knowledge […]
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. Shadow AI Risks: Closing Enterprise Blindspots and Breach Costs Your people are already using AI without permission. Personal accounts. Browser plug-ins. Coding assistants. Unapproved models. Agents nobody in IT can see. Not
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The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The
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You are waiting for a moment that is not coming. The rupture. The threshold. The date you can circle on a calendar when everything changes at once. Kurzweil promised it. The TED talks dramatised it. The science fiction films gave it a soundtrack. It did not happen that way. It never was going to. What
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I got a lot of responses to my last mail with the question: what if ancient wisdom is not just philosophy? What if it is a form of advanced technology?1,400 scenario prompt editionsThose are the questions you get when you publish #mindcandy for nearly four years. The pattern that surprised me most was the one
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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. Enterprise security was built for human-speed threats. That assumption is dead. Frontier AI changes the attack surface. It can scan systems, connect weak signals, map permissions, find policy gaps and chain vulnerabilities
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A monthly synthesis from #MindCandy Lots of signals in May. Taken one at a time, each looked like a development. Taken together, they described the same pressure arriving from multiple directions. The pattern: the organisation is becoming programmable at every layer. Biology is moving from science to platform. Wireless brain implants. Molecular sensors inside living
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Innovation has a PR problem. We’ve wrapped it in so much mythology — the garage startup, the eureka moment, the visionary founder — that we’ve lost sight of where most real innovation actually comes from. Not inspiration. Not ambition. Not even competition. Necessity. Ukraine is the proof. In spring 2026, Ukraine is not just surviving
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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. Transhumanism will not arrive as a manifesto. It will arrive as a product roadmap. Brain chips. Pig organs. Human neurons on chips playing Doom. Biohybrid microrobots repairing spinal cords. AI believers talking
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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. Researcher “gave Claude Code ‘ADHD’… and it thinks 2x better now.” Outside experts want more proof. Imagine an AI that jumps between ideas, hyperfocuses on the wrong thing, makes connections nobody asked
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