My first scenario prompt (#Mindcandy) was about electrodes, brains and octopuses. It was February 2023. Swedish researchers had grown electrodes inside living brain tissue using a viscous gel. Not implanted. Not attached. Grown. In the same edition: octopus brain activity mapped for the first time, 3D-printed hearts, liquid electronics, robot window washers.” The octopus came […]
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Every innovation director tells me the same thing. We experiment all the time. We fail fast. So I ask one question: What’s your failure fund? How much are you actually allowed to lose this year, on purpose, being wrong? The room goes quiet. Because there isn’t one. Real experiments cost real money and real people,
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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. A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency A viral doomsday scenario
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. Forward this to your leadership team — or start the conversation. Nature is an innovation database Jumping spiders have inspired an ultra-efficient 3D camera. Armadillos have inspired protective technology for soft machines.
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Innovation has a PR problem. We’ve wrapped it in so much mythology — the garage startup, the eureka moment, the visionary founder — that we’ve lost sight of where most real innovation actually comes from. Not inspiration. Not ambition. Not even competition. Necessity. Ukraine is the proof. In spring 2026, Ukraine is not just surviving
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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. Agentic AI security: Governing shadow agents on endpoints Many agents were never sanctioned by IT or security. They were installed by individual employees, spun up in development environments, or deployed via Model
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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. Michelin has launched digital twin technology for sensor-free tyre monitoring When a tyre can be monitored without adding physical sensors, we are moving into a world where products become data models, assets
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Great organisations should behave like an octopus. That is according to “The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation”. Octopus Organisation are inspired by remarkable adaptability, distributed intelligence, fluid movement, and innate curiosity of this remarkable sea dweller. Success Success depends on building genuine trust-based relationships with customers, employees, and
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. Mind candy — fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. The quiet shift from digital transformation to digital discipline Everyone celebrated transformation. Nobody budgeted for the maintenance. The hidden cost of the complexity tax — operational opacity, the ROI mirage and
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