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Digital transformation #mindcandy 23 September 2025
The topics are you are 25 books about AI, AI risk, the curse of expertise, data, data lineage, Deepak Chopra, transformation themes, and distillation.
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
How are organizations addressing AI risks to reshape their governance?
Many organizations lack a clear AI adoption strategy
The curse of expertise: Why knowing too much can hold back developers in the AI age
In an AI-powered coding world, could deep expertise hold developers back, or can adaptability turn mastery into an advantage alongside machines?
The Data You Wrote Off Just Got a Second Life
https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4710/data-you-wrote-just-got-second-life
Data leaders face a sourcing crisis: how to feed AI systems without triggering lawsuits or regulators. Permission thinks it has the answer with Permission-as-a-Service, a platform that wraps enterprise data collection in verified human consent and blockchain audit trails.
Tracking data lineage from data archaeology to digital twins
The question is, just how deep down do we need to dig in archaeological terms to ensure we’re in control of data lineage?
AI, Consciousness And Longevity: A Conversation With Deepak Chopra
AI As Augmented Intelligence. You are the upgrade
The big AI, SaaS, transformation themes to watch in 2025’s home stretch
AI costs and ROI, Smaller LLMs, SaaS, Agentic AI, Build vs buy, AI bubble and Code transformation
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
https://www.wired.com/story/how-distillation-makes-ai-models-smaller-and-cheaper/
A fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive model to train another model for less.
