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: #17 Unapologetic Uniqueness

In a linear world, fitting in was a survival strategy. You survived by being a cog that fit perfectly into the machine. In an exponential world, conformity is a death sentence.

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26 Principles for 2026: #11 Radical Subtraction

It might not make sense, but to move faster in our exponential world, you need to stop adding things and start taking things away.

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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: #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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