Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

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.

26 Principles for 2026: #5 Knowledge Velocity
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Lemonade

Lemonade

Life is going to throw curveballs at you—that's a guarantee. You'll have big wins and moments that feel like a total letdown. The secret is not to let those letdowns define you.

Change the Narrative

Change the Narrative

One of the interesting things about AI these days is how it can sift through vast volumes of information to come up with some interesting nuggets of insight.

Disrupting the Disruptors

Disrupting the Disruptors

What do you do if your industry is moving so fast that the competition seems to have an insurmountable advantage? What if they seem to own the disruption game? Disrupt them instead.

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

In a world in which change occurs at blinding speed, having a good idea of what's going on with your key competencies can be one of the most important sources of innovative ideas that you can have.

Reality Check

Reality Check

It seems that lots of folks are learning that certain choices lead to certain outcomes, which many long suggested would be inevitable. The problem here is that folks bought into the lies.

Your Future Need Not Suck!

Your Future Need Not Suck!

As a futurist, I can't tell you your future will suck! I wouldn't get a lot of repeat bookings!" I have to force myself to be optimistic.

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