The future is future fitness. 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. If you want a repeatable operating rhythm to sense signals early, decide priorities faster, and act with real strategic options, click here.
Today’s prompt: What is data gravity and why does it matter?
The bigger your data gets, the more your apps, AI, teams, and vendors end up orbiting it. Because once your “heaviest” dataset sits somewhere (a cloud, a region, a platform), three things happen:
- Speed follows the data. Compute moves to where the data is, or performance dies.
- Costs get sticky. Moving data later (or across clouds) becomes slow, risky, and expensive.
- Lock-in becomes real. Not contractual lock-in—physics lock-in: dependencies pile up until migration becomes a business disruption.
If you’re serious about AI, data gravity is the hidden constraint. Your model roadmap is only as fast as your data placement, pipelines, and recovery posture.
https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/01/28/what-is-data-gravity-and-why-does-it-matter-
Other prompts:
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/
What is data gravity and why does it matter?
Data gravity is the tendency of large datasets to attract the workloads that depend on them.
https://blog.barracuda.com/2026/01/28/what-is-data-gravity-and-why-does-it-matter-
AgilePoint Debuts Agentic Operations Control Tower To Orchestrate Cross-Functional Workflows Across The Enterprise
The Control Tower unifies discovery, orchestration, governance, and measurement, enabling enterprises to move from one-off AI use cases to durable, cross-functional value at scale
Blackfog: Shadow AI Growing as an Enterprise Risk
Blackfog research finds shadow AI surging as employees use unapproved, free AI tools, raising data security, privacy, and governance risks.
https://www.channelinsider.com/ai/blackfog-shadow-ai-growing/
The Rise of the SuperWorker in 2026: How HR Can Lead in the Age of AI-Augmented Talent
AI is transforming how we work—and HR is leading the charge. Explore how the “SuperWorker” era is redefining productivity, talent strategy, and the future of human potential in 2026.
https://www.acrisure.com/blog/rise-of-the-superworker-in-2026
Creating value with AI: where companies stand and what comes next
72% of the companies surveyed see increasing innovation as one of the five biggest advantages of AI.
Data management trends: What’s in, what’s out
Real time data mastering, data as a product, data quality, data lake houses and governance.
https://www.cio.com/article/4117094/data-management-trends-whats-in-whats-out.html
China’s humanoid robot becomes world’s first to connect with orbiting satellite
The humanoid reportedly established a connection with GalaxySpace’s new wing-array integrated internet satellite and transmitted visual data in real time.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/china-humanoid-robot-connects-with-satellite
