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: #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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2026

Mastering The Acceleration Era

If 2026 is the year you reinvent your career, master future-ready skills, and accelerate your impact, you need a new playbook

Success

Tomorrow, Today

Your next future is going to be here sooner than you think. Don't you think it's time to get moving?

Personal Growth

Genetic Negativity

It turns out we are engineered for pessimism rather than optimism.

Being Unique

Fortifying Uniqueness

How do you keep your uniqueness intact when the world is constantly pushing you back toward conformity?

Personal Growth

My Granddad - Cannonball Mack!

A few years ago I learned that my biological grandfather died in 1925 in a stunt-motorcycle accident - on an Indian motorcycle, nonetheless - after he rode his 'show', which was known as the "Wall of Death."

Inspiration