The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your team can notice change and respond.
Pick one mindcandy prompt below. Discuss it. Decide your moves.
Turn this into a repeatable decision system.
Today’s prompt: CIOs Are Running AI On A Broken Foundation: How To Repair It
Content is often unclassified, duplicated and poorly labeled. When AI tools and agents are plugged into this environment, they do exactly what they’re asked to do. They search everything. They surface whatever matches the prompt, whether or not it’s accurate, current or appropriate for that user. AI doesn’t “think”. It amplifies whatever system you give it. If your information foundation is messy, AI doesn’t create leverage — it industrialises confusion.
The business owner question
Which decisions in your business are already influenced by AI outputs you would not accept if a human employee produced them? If you can’t answer that instantly, you’re not augmenting intelligence — you’re compounding risk.
Other prompts to stitch your shining:
My latests book about books about AI
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2026
The bubble, AI factories, genAI as an organisational resource, agentic AI, and governance.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/five-trends-in-ai-and-data-science-for-2026/
Closing the Enterprise AI Gap: From Experimentation to Execution
Most enterprise operating models are still built around fragmented systems, siloed data, and workflows designed for human handoffs. Instead of integrated into operations, AI is utilized as a tool, with limited orchestration across systems and data.
https://www.techmahindra.com/insights/views/closing-the-enterprise-ai-gap/
7 changes to the CIO role in 2026
CIOs will continue to gain in stature as they take an even bigger lead on AI-powered enterprise transformations.
https://www.cio.com/article/4107216/7-changes-to-the-cio-role-in-2026.html
AI Agents Need Keys to Your Kingdom
AI agents are proliferating faster than security teams can inventory them. The question isn’t whether your organization has ungoverned AI agents with dangerous levels of access. The question is how many.
https://www.rtinsights.com/ai-agents-need-keys-to-your-kingdom/
New marketplace sells synthetic drugs for AI, allowing models to get weird and messy
A Swedish startup has launched what it calls the world’s first marketplace for drugs designed exclusively for AI, altering how LLMs work by simulating the effects of cannabis, cocaine, ayahuasca, ketamine and alcohol.
How to kill a rogue AI
Killing a rogue AI might require killing the internet, or large parts of it. And that’s no small challenge.
https://www.vox.com/politics/472668/rogue-ai-emp-hunter-killer-loss-of-control
Everything is Computer
Consumer electronics, the “Modular Middle”, and the production model of the future.
https://www.a16z.news/p/everything-is-computer
Your Customer’s Data: Who Has the Keys?
Control, sovereignty, and trust in modern CX
