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Top 10 #mindcandy trends — july 2026

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, General, Speaking / By Ron Immink

An overview of the #mindcandy in July 2026: Natural capital becomes a balance-sheet issue — environmental damage and resource dependency move from externalities to material business risk. 3D printing moves into mainstream operations — additive manufacturing shifts from innovation experiment to production, supply-chain, and product-design capability. Science fiction becomes operating reality — biological computing, synthetic […]

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How to prepare for abstraction

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, General, Speaking / By Ron Immink

In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. And like most people, I got distracted by the headline. An AI passing a business school exam. The implications for education. The implications for white-collar work. The implications for the knowledge economy. I missed the deeper signal entirely. It took me months to see it. The

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#MindCandy: 3D printing goes mainstream

Leave a Comment / #Daily Mind Candy, General / By Ron Immink

I use Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It is the fuel for a strategic conversation How 3D Printing is Reshaping the Future of Hip and

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Makers and the new industrial revolution

Leave a Comment / Book review / By Ron Immink

I am a huge fan of Chris Anderson. Both “The long tail” and “Free” are great reads and truly thought-provoking. Both, but particularly “Free” is a book we use regularly with clients. The question asked in “Free” is “what happens if your service will become available for free (which it will)? Talk about throwing a

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