THINKDROP 23: A Galaxy Mindset
- Pierre Stanghellini
- Nov 10
- 6 min read
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🎤 From Me to You
Business used to be about control. You built a plan, executed with precision, optimized for efficiency, and scaled predictably. That world is gone.
Today, markets evolve faster than forecasts.
AI reshapes industries in months. Consumers pivot expectations overnight. The map keeps changing—and those still trying to follow it are left orbiting old ideas.
Enter the galaxy mindset—a way of thinking that transcends straight lines and fixed systems. It’s what happens when you stop seeing your business as an island and start seeing it as part of a living constellation.
In a galaxy, everything is connected by invisible forces: gravity, motion, time. In business, the same applies. Every decision creates ripples across ecosystems—supply chains, communities, technologies, and even emotions.
Entrepreneurs who thrive in this landscape don’t chase certainty—they cultivate conditions. They understand that growth isn’t about control, but connection. It’s about designing systems that self-evolve, relationships that self-sustain, and strategies that adapt faster than the market itself.
To think galactically is to move beyond the linear mindset of “plan–execute–optimize.” It’s to build orbits: cycles of innovation, collaboration, and serendipity that feed each other continuously.
This mindset isn’t abstract—it’s operational. It’s how some of the most adaptive leaders today—across tech, design, climate, and venture—navigate chaos with elegance. They don’t predict the future; they design the gravitational pull that attracts it.
Pierre Stanghellini -
HARi.wtf founder
1. 🪐 Systems Thinking Over Goal Thinking
Most entrepreneurs chase goals—funding milestones, user targets, expansion metrics.
But goals are finite; systems endure.
A goal mindset says: “How do I get there?”
A system mindset says: “How do I make ‘there’ happen repeatedly, even without me?”
That’s the core of galactic thinking—shifting from achievement to architecture.
When you build systems, success compounds.
Think of it as moving from shooting stars to stable orbits.
Stripe didn’t grow because it chased payment volume—it grew because it built an ecosystem where developers, startups, and investors could all thrive together.
The system did the scaling.
Try this: Draw your business as a system, not a hierarchy. Map the flows of energy—people, capital, knowledge, creativity. Identify where they stagnate or leak.
Then redesign for motion, not control.
2. 🔗 Innovation via Interconnection
Breakthroughs happen where boundaries blur.
True innovation is rarely born in silos—it emerges at intersections.
The galaxy mindset turns curiosity into connection. You start to see patterns between seemingly unrelated domains: psychology in product design, physics in logistics, art in leadership. Each connection expands your orbit of possibilities.
In the past, innovation meant specialization. Now it means synthesis.
Those who can link fields create gravity that attracts ideas—and people—others can’t.
Try this: Once a month, invite someone from a completely different industry to a team conversation. Their perspective might not solve your immediate challenge, but it could unlock a new dimension of thinking you didn’t know you needed.
3. 💡 Curiosity as Cosmic Fuel
Curiosity is the engine of expansion. It’s how galaxies grow, and how ideas evolve.
Entrepreneurs with a galaxy mindset don’t defend what they know—they explore what they don’t. They operate in permanent beta, constantly testing, adapting, learning.
This isn’t intellectual restlessness; it’s survival intelligence.
Curiosity builds adaptability, and adaptability compounds resilience.
The more curious your organization, the more gravitational pull it has—drawing talent, ideas, and opportunities into orbit.
Try this: Build curiosity into your rituals. In every meeting, dedicate five minutes to “what we learned that surprised us.” You’ll be amazed at how much innovation hides inside the unexpected.
4. 🌐 From Ego to Ecosystem
The myth of the lone genius is over. The future belongs to constellations.
The galaxy mindset transforms leadership from control to connection.
You don’t lead by shining brighter—you lead by aligning orbits.
Influence becomes gravitational, not hierarchical.
Great leaders today don’t build empires; they build ecosystems.
Their power comes not from authority, but from the virtuous cycles they create—where every stakeholder wins through contribution and exchange.
In an ecosystem, your success depends on the health of the whole.
The stronger the web, the longer your impact lasts.
Try this: Audit your ecosystem. Who depends on you—and who do you depend on? Strengthen those ties. Value moves fastest through trust networks, not contracts.
5. ✨ Serendipity as Strategy
In a traditional strategy, unpredictability is the enemy.
In galactic strategy, it’s the greatest source of growth.
Serendipity isn’t random luck—it’s designed emergence.
It happens when open systems, diverse people, and clear purpose collide.
When you create environments that encourage exploration, you give the unexpected room to become essential.
Some of the most transformative business moments in history were accidents embraced with intention—Post-it Notes, penicillin, even Slack.
Serendipity rewards those who are ready to recognize the unplanned as opportunity.
Try this: Host a quarterly “collision lab.” Mix teams, partners, and even clients.
Give them a problem with no predefined answer. Let new patterns emerge organically.
🌠 5-TOPIC RECAP
Systems Thinking Over Goal Thinking – Build engines, not endpoints.
Innovation via Interconnection – Find growth in the gaps between industries.
Curiosity as Cosmic Fuel – Stay in motion through learning and exploration.
From Ego to Ecosystem – Create gravitational leadership through trust and alignment.
Serendipity as Strategy – Design for emergence, not just efficiency.
🧠 CONCLUSION
The galaxy mindset isn’t theory—it’s a new kind of clarity in a chaotic world.
It’s how entrepreneurs, investors, and creators can move through uncertainty without getting lost in it.
Linear thinkers measure growth by how much they control.
Galactic thinkers measure it by how much they connect.
They don’t build faster—they build deeper. They understand that the true power of an idea lies not in its perfection, but in its ability to evolve through others.
We’re entering an era where adaptability is capital.
Where your network is not a contact list—it’s an ecosystem of exchange.
Where success belongs not to the ones who shout the loudest, but to the ones who design the most magnetic gravity.
So zoom out. See your business not as a set of silos, but as a living constellation of flows—ideas, people, tools, and timing. Align them, feed them, and let them expand beyond your reach.
Because in this new universe of entrepreneurship, the winners aren’t those who build the biggest rockets. They’re the ones who understand the orbits.
Pierre Stanghellini
→ Let’s connect, drop me a line directly at pierre@hari.wtf .
🪞 P.S.
In my own work, this mindset isn’t theory—it’s practice.
I run four very different ventures: HARi.wtf, Marty Agency, AFTERBEAT Music Agency, and I’m part of the development of WIRESK – Business Automation Made Simple.
On the surface, they seem disconnected—consulting, automation, marketing, music.
But from a Galactic view, they’re deeply interlinked.
A typical day starts with me entering a meeting as HARi, providing strategic consulting. Once trust is built, the client often transitions to WIRESK, where we redesign their IT infrastructure and build automation flows. Sometimes, that same client later outsources their marketing to Marty Agency. And on occasion—they even become clients of AFTERBEAT, my music and sonic branding studio.
Each orbit feeds the next. Each connection compounds. It’s a living proof of the galaxy mindset in action.
And whenever someone in my network asks for something I don’t yet provide, I don’t dismiss it—I pause. I ask, “Could this become a new orbit?”
More often than not, it does.
That’s how new divisions and ventures are born—out of curiosity, connection, and the courage to build what doesn’t yet exist.
Because when you start thinking like a galaxy, you realize: expansion isn’t something you plan. It’s something you allow.
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About the Creator
Pierre Stanghellini is a creative strategist, systems thinker, and curator of mental rabbit holes. He created Thinkdrop Weekly to feed the brains that don’t want the same old Business advice. If you’re building something bold, beautiful, or strange—this is your corner of the internet.
About HARi.wtf
HARi.wtf is a creative strategy studio for businesses that hate business-as-usual.
Born in Hong Kong, in 2017, we work with restless founders, operators, and teams who’d rather break things thoughtfully than grow them blandly. We don’t do generic decks or bloated strategies—we build clarity, guts, and traction.
From street-level restaurants to global brands, from Asia to Europe, we help shape ideas that move fast when it matters, and slow when it counts.
→ Explore more at hari.wtf
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