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Digital transformation #mindcandy 24 September 2025

The topics are you are 25 books about AI, digital twins, ChatGPT, data ownership, AI leadership, trust, data, digital twinning, and blockchain.

https://open.substack.com/pub/scenarioprompts/p/from-data-archaeology-to-digital

#youaretheupgrade #buddhAI #ChakrAI #AyurvedAI #AI #risk #expertise #data#lineage #DeepakChopra #transformation #distillation.

You are the upgrade

You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward (e-book, also available as a Bookbuzz session)

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

Digital Twins: Unlocking Human Potential Without Replacing People

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/09/19/digital-twins-unlocking-human-potential-without-replacing-people/

With the rise of agentic AI, a new use case emerges for organizations to create digital twins of their workforce. 

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/

New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.

Who Really Owns Your Data? Hint: It’s Not Who You Think.

https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4713/who-really-owns-your-data-hint-its-not-who-you-think

Your supposedly bulletproof “sovereign” architecture just became a worthless piece of scrap. Welcome to the new reality, data engineers and storage architects.

Looking for a few good AI leaders – are you ready?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/looking-for-a-few-good-ai-leaders-are-you-ready/

Real transformation requires process redesign

AI Won’t Fix Broken Enterprise Plumbing — Why ERP Modernisation Is the Real Digital Transformation

https://www.expresscomputer.in/guest-blogs/ai-wont-fix-broken-enterprise-plumbing-why-erp-modernisation-is-the-real-digital-transformation/127989/

If your ERP is fragmented, your data lineage is murky, and your processes are glued together with spreadsheets, the fanciest model will only amplify the mess.

Most CTOs obsess over tech, I obsess over trust — here’s why

https://e27.co/most-ctos-obsess-over-tech-i-obsess-over-trust-heres-why-20250920/

As a CTO, I’ve learned that trust, not the latest tools, is what truly powers software, AI/ML, and cloud success with clients and teams

Predicting the Future: Richelle Nicols on Data That Makes a Difference

https://womenlovetech.com/predicting-the-future-richelle-nicols-on-data-that-makes-a-difference/

Data is more than numbers — it’s a roadmap to better decisions and better lives

Digital Twins in Infrastructure

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/digital-twins-in-infrastructure-f4b33319c0c5

The Secret Weapon: Autonomous Digital Twins

Why the need for privacy is driving a blockchain evolution

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/privacy-blockchain-evolution-data-cybersecurity-zama-fhe

The transformation of blockchain into a privacy-preserving system is not a betrayal of its origins, but rather a logical evolution of the tech.

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