A former colleague posts about a science-fiction novel. I decide to reread it. While I was drinking wine on the beach, a cybrid appears: a synthetic organism carrying the personality of the poet John Keats. I ask ChatGPT about Keats. A few minutes later, I am reading about negative capability, Keats’s idea that wisdom comes […]
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It started with a post from my former colleague at DCU, Theo Lynn, Dean of DCU Business School. Theo collects science fiction books. His favourite is Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a book I read ages ago. So I decided to read it again. It is excellent. Cybrid The book reaches a point where a cybrid
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Send this to the most curious person in your organisation — or start the conversation. The future: slow down or go faster A few years ago, I wrote a book about books
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Every technology follows an abstraction curve In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Like everyone else, I got distracted by the headline. The obvious implications were for education, white-collar work and professional knowledge. If a machine could pass an MBA exam, what did that say about business schools, consultants, analysts, managers and knowledge
The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The
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You are waiting for a moment that is not coming. The rupture. The threshold. The date you can circle on a calendar when everything changes at once. Kurzweil promised it. The TED talks dramatised it. The science fiction films gave it a soundtrack. It did not happen that way. It never was going to. What
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Transhumanism will not arrive as a manifesto. It will arrive as a product roadmap. Brain chips. Pig organs. Human neurons on chips playing Doom. Biohybrid microrobots repairing spinal cords. AI believers talking
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Researcher “gave Claude Code ‘ADHD’… and it thinks 2x better now.” Outside experts want more proof. Imagine an AI that jumps between ideas, hyperfocuses on the wrong thing, makes connections nobody asked
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In February 2023, I started publishing a daily scenario prompt. One signal. One question. Every day. Three and a half years later, the archive had taught me twelve lessons I did not expect. Most of what I predicted was wrong. That turned out to be the point. Here is what stuck. 1. No single signal
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Most leadership teams do not have a strategy problem. They have a thinking problem. They are busy, informed, and surrounded by dashboards, yet still miss the shift that matters. If you want to know how to improve strategic thinking, start there. Strategy is rarely broken because people lack data. It breaks because they interpret reality
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