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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I got a lot of responses to my last mail with the question: what if ancient wisdom is not just philosophy? What if it is a form of advanced technology?1,400 scenario prompt editionsThose are the questions you get when you publish #mindcandy for nearly four years. The pattern that surprised me most was the one
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A monthly synthesis from #MindCandy Lots of signals in May. Taken one at a time, each looked like a development. Taken together, they described the same pressure arriving from multiple directions. The pattern: the organisation is becoming programmable at every layer. Biology is moving from science to platform. Wireless brain implants. Molecular sensors inside living
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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. 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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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. Mindcandy is the fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. When Employees Are Drowning in Change Right now, multiple forces are driving change, including mergers and restructurings, economic volatility, geopolitical instability, and AI technology. Most leaders focus on managing change. The
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Most founder content is performance. A recycled hot take on AI. A thread about hustle. A vague post on vision. It gets likes, maybe. It does not build authority. It does not shape markets. It does not make customers, investors, or talent think, this is the person who sees what is coming. That is the
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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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