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.
Do you want you a repeatable operating rhythm to sense signals early, decide priorities faster, and act with real strategic options? See how this works.
Today’s prompt: Why CES 2026 signals the end of “AI as a tool”
If you’re still talking about “using AI”, you’re already late. CES 2026 made one thing unavoidably clear: AI is no longer something you deploy. It’s something you live inside. Always-on. Embedded. Ambient. Invisible until it fails. That changes everything for business owners. When AI stops being a tool:
- There is no clear “on/off” decision anymore
- Competitive advantage shifts from adoption to integration
- Operating models matter more than tech stacks
- Culture, data discipline, and decision rights become the bottleneck
Most companies will respond by buying more AI. That’s the wrong move. The real shift is this: AI is becoming infrastructure for judgment, not automation for tasks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2026/01/07/why-ces-2026-signals-the-end-of-ai-as-a-tool/
The business owner question
If AI is no longer a tool but an always-on layer of your business, what parts of your operating model are about to become dangerously outdated?
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/
AI is eroding leadership credibility, survey shows
The skills that leaders will most need in the AI era – empathy and authentic communication – are the ones most threatened when AI begins to mediate core managerial interactions
https://www.raconteur.net/talent-culture/ai-is-eroding-leadership-credibility
Here are four ways AI and talent trends could reshape jobs by 2030
Four scenarios: supercharged progress, the age of displacement, co-pilot economy, and stalled progress
Auditing, classifying and building a data sovereignty strategy
We look at data sovereignty – what it is and how to build a data sovereignty strategy around data auditing
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Auditing-classifying-and-building-a-data-sovereignty-strategy
Top 6 digital transformation trends to look for in 2026
Multi agent systems, vertical AI, AI-native platform architecture, cloud and edge intelligence, preemptive cybersecurity and physical AI begins to blur the digital.
https://etedge-insights.com/technology/top-6-digital-transformation-trends-to-look-for-in-2026/
AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t intelligence but fragmentation: i10X co-founder
AI models are getting smarter by the week, but for most teams, the real struggle isn’t intelligence, it’s fragmentation. Too many tools, overlapping subscriptions, messy workflows, and no clear way to know what actually works.
https://e27.co/ais-biggest-bottleneck-isnt-intelligence-but-fragmentation-i10x-co-founder-20260112/
Unlock AI’s Full Potential: Why Clean ERP Data Is the Key to Success
AI is only as smart as the data you feed it. If your data is messy, incomplete, or inconsistent, AI can’t deliver its full potential. Instead of driving better decisions, poor data can lead to inaccurate predictions, flawed reporting, and missed opportunitie
https://msdynamicsworld.com/blog-post/unlock-ais-full-potential-why-clean-erp-data-key-success
