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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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. Robots will not arrive as a revolution. They will arrive as margin pressure. In robotics a thousand small breakthroughs are compounding until one morning the warehouse runs itself. Already, humanoid robots now
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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. Three ways operational debt will break your AI strategy, and how to recover Three types of operational debt compounding beneath AI deployments. Technical debt — manual steps and outdated tools that were
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. That sounds simple. It is not. Every organisation likes to describe itself as agile, innovative and ready for change. Most are not. They are busy, well-intentioned and professionally distracted. They scan trends, talk about AI, run workshops, produce strategy decks and
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