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: future fitness
Today’s signals look like a messy mix — but they’re pointing to one clean conclusion:
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BANI is the new baseline: brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible.
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Transparency is escalating: AI makes inference cheap, and secrecy harder.
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Collective intelligence is being re-parameterised: how fast groups can move from hunch → draft → decision → product.
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Biomimicry is turning nature into an innovation advantage, not a nice-to-have.
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Optionality is becoming strategy: multiple viable moves beats one “best” plan.
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Change muscle is the meta-skill: structure won’t save you if you can’t adapt continuously.
So no: the advantage isn’t prediction. Future-proofing is a comforting illusion. The real edge is future fitness — the capability to sense earlier, decide faster, and act without perfect information.
The CEO question
Which capability is currently your weakest link — sensing, deciding, or acting — and what would you remove in the next 30 days to make it 2× faster?
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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/
AI is changing the physics of collective intelligence—how do we respond?
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) does not transport bodies, but it is already starting to disrupt the physics of collective intelligence: How ideas, drafts, data, and perspectives move between people, how much information groups can process, and how quickly they can move from vague hunch to concrete product.
Your Hard Drives Are Stealing Your AI’s Lunch Money
In 2025, the word “power” was on the lips of most tech leaders. With AI guzzling electricity, it’s easy to see why. But they may have gotten the source totally wrong. Yes, it’s not those snazzy GPUs that’ll kill your AI growth plans; it’ll be your building blocks, particularly storage. Check out TrimTabs.
https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4836/your-hard-drives-are-stealing-your-ais-lunch-money
Building a Sustainable Business Innovation Capability
Half of CEOs rank new business building as a top three priority, and in the current economic environment.
https://prophet.com/2025/01/building-a-sustainable-business-innovation-capability/
Scientists Develop New Fish-Inspired Filter That Removes Over 99% of Microplastics
Certain species, such as mackerel, sardines, and anchovies, feed by filtering water. They swim with their mouths open and trap plankton using their gill arch system.
Scientists build atomic light switches to control single photons on demand
https://interestingengineering.com/science/atomic-light-switches-control-single-photons
Quantum emitters, are considered one of the core components for future technologies such as quantum computers, ultra-secure communication networks, and extremely sensitive sensors.
The One Question That Reveals Whether Your Company Is Truly ‘Optionality-Ready
Are we optimising for the next announcement, or designing a company that could sell or scale on our terms? Structure. Data. Metrics.
https://www.the-founders-corner.com/p/founders-rarely-see-this-coming-but
The change paradox: Structure alone won’t create more adaptability
Recently, many organizations have appointed chief transformation officers (CTrO) and/or established Centers of Excellence (CoE) for change. The real advantage lies in developing a “change muscle”—the organizational capability to adapt continuously as a core competency across all levels of the enterprise.
https://hrexecutive.com/the-change-paradox-structure-alone-wont-create-more-adaptability/
From Digital Transformation Fatigue To AI Transformation Urgency: Japan’s Second Digital Awakening
In Japan, the AX narrative lands differently than in the West. There’s no widespread anxiety about AI replacing jobs here: The talent scarcity is too acute.
Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
Corporate disclosure is becoming far harder to manage in the age of AI. While companies once focused on safeguarding traditional releases—financial reports, earnings calls, and sensitive R&D details—AI now enables anyone to infer strategic insights from seemingly innocuous information.
https://hbr.org/2025/12/corporate-disclosure-in-the-age-of-ai
