Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

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26 Principles for 2026: #12 Strategic Humility

To really get ahead in 2026, you need to understand the trap of hubris and why your past success can be your biggest future liability.

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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.

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26 Principles for 2026: #4 Anticipatory Intelligence

You need to do a better job of understanding what comes next, and what you need to know about it, long before you have to do anything about it!

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26 Principles for 2026: #3 Ambiguity Tolerance

You need to learn to make decisions despite a wild lack of clarity, a stunning amount of uncertainty, a scary amount of volatility, and a staggering degree of velocity.

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26 Principles for 2026: #2 Strategic Self-Pruning

Think of it as shedding your past to fuel your future speed.

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26 Principles for 2026: #1 - Temporal Literacy

The single biggest mistake you can make right now is to believe that you can just keep doing the same old things at the same old deliberate pace that worked for you yesterday.