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.
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Today’s prompt: synthetic drugs for AI
A new class of tools is emerging: synthetic “drugs” for AI. They deliberately distort how large language models behave—loosening constraints, increasing randomness, simulating states associated with cannabis, cocaine, ayahuasca, ketamine, or alcohol. The goal isn’t accuracy. It’s pattern disruption. Why does this matter to you? Because the same principle is already being used—quietly—in leadership teams:
- Scenario shocks
- Red teaming
- Role reversal
- Constraint removal
- Outsider lenses
Not to get better answers. To ask different questions. AI just makes the mechanism explicit: creativity and strategic insight often come from controlled cognitive distortion, not from more data or better dashboards. The real issue isn’t whether AI should get “weird”. It’s whether your leadership thinking ever does.
The CEO question
Where in your organisation are you still optimising for coherence and control, when what you actually need is deliberate disruption of thinking? And what is the first decision, assumption, or strategy you would intentionally put through a “cognitive stress test” to surface blind spots you’re currently protecting? Time to take some psychedelics?
Other prompts:
My latest book about books about AI: 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/
2026 Is The Year Storytelling Becomes A CMO’s Most Profitable Skill
According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, companies are now hiring storytellers
New material changes color and texture like an octopus
Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and nanoscale bioengineering.
How to kill a rogue AI
Killing a rogue AI might require killing the internet, or large parts of it. And that’s no small challenge.
https://www.vox.com/politics/472668/rogue-ai-emp-hunter-killer-loss-of-control
Science in 2050: the future breakthroughs that will shape our world — and beyond
Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04100-6?
7 AI Priorities That Will Define Retail in 2026
Beyond chatbots, data governance, search as intelligent navigation, agent-driven commerce, human authenticity and real-time omni-channel orchestration.
https://www.mytotalretail.com/article/7-ai-priorities-that-will-define-retail-in-2026/
