I started my #mindcandy in February 2023, just when Swedish researchers grew self-assembling electrodes inside living brain tissue, a string of isolated-seeming lab curiosities began to add up to something bigger. Organoid intelligence research. 800,000 neurons learning to play Pong. Necrobots built from dead spiders. Each one looked like a curiosity on its own. Together, […]
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #Mindcandy prompts are fuel for a strategic conversation about what’s next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. When the wearable disappears Wearables are disappearing. Researchers are developing thread-like electronic circuits that can be woven into clothing, wrapped around
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In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. And like most people, I got distracted by the headline. An AI passing a business school exam. The implications for education. The implications for white-collar work. The implications for the knowledge economy. I missed the deeper signal entirely. It took me months to see it. The
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Most leadership teams are not short on intelligence. They are short on protected space to think. Executive meetings are consumed by delivery, targets, people issues and whatever caught fire that week. The urgent crowds out the strategic. Mental Sandboxing is a two-hour strategic rehearsal for leadership teams. No preparation. No generic workshop theatre. No long
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I use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM me “SESSION” if you want to find
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On 22 February 2023, I published a scenario prompt containing 3D-printed batteries, low-code AI, GPS tag darts, nuclear fusion and killer robots. No single signal told me much on its own. What mattered was the sentence underneath them: technology abstraction means everyone plays LEGO with technologies. Technology abstraction means everyone plays LEGO with technologies Technologies
My first scenario prompt (#Mindcandy) was about electrodes, brains and octopuses. It was February 2023. Swedish researchers had grown electrodes inside living brain tissue using a viscous gel. Not implanted. Not attached. Grown. In the same edition: octopus brain activity mapped for the first time, 3D-printed hearts, liquid electronics, robot window washers.” The octopus came
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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. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. A return to two-pizza culture The two-pizza idea was never really about team size. It was about ownership. Small teams understood the customer
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Use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more.
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Most strategy fails because it is treated as an event. That is not strategy. Strategy cannot be built through occasional inspiration. It has to become an operating rhythm — a repeated way of sensing, interpreting, deciding, experimenting and learning. That is why 100 days matters: long enough to learn something real, short enough to prevent
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