In May 2023, I asked a question that felt like provocation for its own sake: will AI become the new McKinsey? ChatGPT was four months old. Most companies were using it to write emails. The idea that a language model might replace strategic advisory sounded like a stretch. It wasn’t a stretch. It was a […]
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I am a huge fan of Jason Silva. Particularly, his latest post about the “latent space and the new literacy of the AI age” hits a nerve. I need to go back a bit. To reading Dan Simmons´ Hyperion. While having a glass of wine on the beach in Spain. The common denominators are latent
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” if you want to find out more. Coherence as a competitive advantage We are obsessed with intelligence, innovation and speed. But the next competitive advantage may be
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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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On 22 February 2023, I published a scenario prompt containing 3D-printed batteries, low-code AI, GPS tag darts, nuclear fusion and killer robots. No single signal told me much on its own. What mattered was the sentence underneath them: technology abstraction means everyone plays LEGO with technologies. Technology abstraction means everyone plays LEGO with technologies Technologies
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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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. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. A return to two-pizza culture The two-pizza idea was never really about team size. It was about ownership. Small teams understood the customer
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Use the #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 fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more.
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Most strategy fails because it is treated as an event. That is not strategy. Strategy cannot be built through occasional inspiration. It has to become an operating rhythm — a repeated way of sensing, interpreting, deciding, experimenting and learning. That is why 100 days matters: long enough to learn something real, short enough to prevent
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I use the #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 fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re
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