I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking.
Today’s scenario prompt: from friction to flow
Ever since I read “The Rise of Superman“, and “Stealing fire“I’ve been obsessed with flow – and what a company “flow score” might look like. When people are in flow, productivity, creativity and learning go through the roof. Now look at your organisation: how much time is lost to clunky systems, pointless approvals, broken processes and dead dashboards? That’s digital friction. The opposite of flow.
Computer games are engineered flow engines: clear goals, instant feedback, rising challenge, deep immersion. Every CEO should be playing Xbox or PS5 – not for fun, but to understand what real engagement feels like. That’s the benchmark for customer and employee experience.
And there there is AI and flow. AI can strip out friction, personalise work, pre-empt blockers and design “always-on” challenge ladders. Used well, it can turn your operating system into a flow system.
The CEO question
Where is the hidden friction in your customer and employee journeys – and if you had to score your organisation’s (digital) flow from 1 to 10 today, what would the number be and what would it take to double it?
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All the prompts:
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.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
From friction to flow: Building the resilient digital workforce
Ninety-seven percent of organizations say they’re affected by “digital friction”—the unnecessary effort employees expend just to access information or use technology effectively.
https://blogs.opentext.com/from-friction-to-flow-building-the-resilient-digital-workforce/
US engineers design AI bionic hand that grips with human-like precision
Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural grasping movements, the team created a hand that grips more intuitively and securely.
https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/ai-bionic-hand-grips-like-human
Will the CEO role become obsolete?
Once regarded as the ultimate symbol of corporate power, the CEO position is facing existential risks: rising executive turnover, the spread of distributed leadership models and a workforce increasingly indifferent to the corner office
https://www.raconteur.net/leadership/will-the-ceo-role-become-obsolete
The best games of 2025, picked by NPR’s staff
Every CEO should play computer games to understand attention span, narrative and the future of social media, websites, client and staff engagement, and the experience economy.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5627036/best-games-2025-npr
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69663990/scientists-say-physical-warp-drive-now-possible/
Tumbleweed aerodynamics inspire hybrid robots for harsh terrains
A hybrid robot that combines the wind-driven mobility of tumbleweeds with active quadcopter control, offering a new paradigm for energy-efficient terrestrial exploration.
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-tumbleweed-aerodynamics-hybrid-robots-harsh.html
Wireless Device ‘Speaks’ to the Brain With Light
A wireless implant could restore lost senses, provide sensory feedback for prosthetic limbs
https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2025/12/08/wireless-device-speaks-to-the-brain-with-light/
AI In 2026: 10 Predictions On Automation And The Future Of Work
Value correction, bubble, genAI, job displacement, human augmentation, informal networks, stories, STEM vs social science, and AI detectors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2025/12/10/ai-in-2026-10-predictions-on-automation-and-the-future-of-work/
