You can’t predict the future. But you can build the fitness to respond to it. That’s the purpose of Mind Candy — helping you and your team think about what’s next.
Everything Is Hackable
Nicole Perlroth’s This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends takes you through the world of hackers. It is not a pretty picture. Governments, companies, and criminals hacking each other’s systems. Cyberwarfare with Ukraine as a live example. Election interference. Stolen IP. Hacked infrastructure and nuclear reactors.
The old line still holds: there are only two types of companies — those that know they’ve been compromised, and those that don’t know yet.
The Threat Is Compounding
Criminal AI. IoT. Quantum computing. AI-generated phishing. Supply chain attacks. Every new technology wave opens new doors for attackers — faster than most organizations can inventory what they need to protect.
A Leadership Problem, Not a Tech Problem
Cyber resilience isn’t abstract — it’s whether the lights stay on. That makes this an organizational survival issue, not an IT issue. The question isn’t whether you’ll be targeted. It’s whether your team has the fitness to respond.
The other prompts:
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness. Also available as a board briefing.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/you-are-the-upgrade/
AI Zen
Our sense of self is shifting.
https://www.nfx.com/post/ai-zen
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
https://cybersecurityventures.com/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-world-ends/
Read: https://www.ronimmink.com/cyber-security-is-a-hotspot/
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-lie-cheat-steal-protect-other-models-research/
UK physicists’ brain-inspired chip could make AI systems 2,000 times more energy efficient
The work paves the way for energy-efficient neuromorphic electronics dealing with time signals.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chip-make-ai-systems-energy-efficient
10 ways to accelerate digital transformation
Innovation engines, priority, clarity, engagement, reducing complexity and silos, and cross functional governance.
https://www.cio.com/article/4154263/10-ways-to-accelerate-digital-transformation-2.html
To Succeed with AI, You’ve Got to Nail the Basics
Companies should focus on applying five timeless, mutually reinforcing principles of quality management: customer centricity, a focus on process, commitment to acting on facts, a philosophy of continuous improvement, and a recognition that quality happens through people.
https://hbr.org/2026/04/to-succeed-with-ai-youve-got-to-nail-the-basics
Your Next Customer Will Find You Using AI. Now What?
Marketers who adapt their customer discovery strategy for AI-intermediated search and commerce will own the next decade of customer acquisition.
https://www.bain.com/insights/your-next-customer-will-find-you-using-ai-now-what/
Autonomous AI agents 2026: the new rules for business governance
The rise of the supervisor agent
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/autonomous-ai-agents-2026-the-new-rules-for-business-governance
