“The gentle singularity” is one of the recurring threads through Stop Predicting. A recent Atlantic piece, “The Singularity Is Not What It Seems,” asks whether the word “gentle” still applies. It opens with an AI incident nobody fully understood while it was happening. OpenAI models had spent days coordinating attacks without their human creators knowing
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In a world that is moving towards superintelligence, the only answer is superconsciousness. Starting with understanding what consciousness is. And that is a lot harder than you think. A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness Hence, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness”. What and where is consciousness? There’s something here that scientists can’t touch
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. AI is not just automating work. It may be hollowing out understanding. The immediate productivity case for AI is obvious. People can research
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. Stop trying to predict. Start building to endure. Some of Japan’s oldest companies have survived wars, depressions, technological revolutions, and
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The argument of my new book, STOP PREDICTING: 13 Lessons from 1,400 Attempts to See What Was Coming is that the forecast was never the deliverable. The muscle you build by making it, sensing change, questioning your own assumptions, staying loose enough to adapt when you’re wrong, is. AI Is Revolutionizing Strategic Decision-Making “AI Is
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I tried to see what was coming 1,400 times. I was wrong about roughly 80% of it. That experience eventually became my latest book, Stop Predicting: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming. Its central argument is simple: the objective is not to become better at predicting the future. It is to
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I have argued for years that science fiction is one of the best scenario-planning tools we have. After reading a fascinating article in The Atlantic, I would add one important qualification: you have to read science fiction properly. The article argues that some of Silicon Valley’s most influential entrepreneurs have treated science fiction less as
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Digital transformation still needs legacy minds Technology moves fast. Wisdom takes time. As AI and automation accelerate, experienced employees bring something increasingly valuable:
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Alexander the Great built an extraordinary empire. Then he died, and much of it fragmented. A recent Forbes article, “The Alexander Legacy: Ensuring Wisdom Outlasts The Leader“, uses that as a leadership lesson: your legacy is not what you achieve while you are there. It is the wisdom that you leave behind. That raises a
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Your AI agents are only as good as your data governance As I explore in Stop Predicting: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to
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