We keep on forgetting. Data is powerful. AI is powerful. Automation is powerful. But the last mile is still human. The last mile is the conversation with the customer who does not fit the segment. The employee whose situation is not covered by policy. The supplier who is under pressure but afraid to say it.
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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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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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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. State owned AI AI sovereignty is not just about models, chips, cloud and data. It is also about narrative control. Because AI absolutism is now everywhere. AI will save us. AI will
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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
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. Shadow AI Risks: Closing Enterprise Blindspots and Breach Costs Your people are already using AI without permission. Personal accounts. Browser plug-ins. Coding assistants. Unapproved models. Agents nobody in IT can see. Not
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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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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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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. Enterprise security was built for human-speed threats. That assumption is dead. Frontier AI changes the attack surface. It can scan systems, connect weak signals, map permissions, find policy gaps and chain vulnerabilities
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