Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

Thoughts, stories and ideas about tomorrow from Futurist Jim Carroll. Sent each workday since August 2016.

2026

26 Principles for 2026: #10 Collaborative Velocity

My message is consistent - your success comes from the reach of your collaborative knowledge networks. In an exponential economy, it now depends on the speed with which you can extend them and reach new ones.

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26 Principles for 2026: #10 Collaborative Velocity

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26 Principles for 2026: #9 - Aim Higher

Are you aiming high enough?

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26 Principles for 2026: #8 Velocity Alignment

The sad truth is that in our new exponential world, speed is no longer a differentiator; it is the baseline requirement for existence.

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26 Principles for 2026: #5 Knowledge Velocity

If you are relying on what you already know, i.e, with your past degree, your decade of experience, to carry you through 2026, you are driving on fumes. Your battery is empty, your mind is out of gas, and you'll soon hit the limit of where you can go.

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26 Principles for 2026: #7 Relentless Reinvention

The discipline you must master is Relentless Reinvention. Reinvention? It's often known as 'the pivot.'

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26 Principles for 2026: #6 Iterative Obsession / Return on Failure

If you aren't making mistakes, you aren't moving fast enough. You aren't testing the boundaries. You are operating on old assumptions while the world shifts beneath your feet.