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: #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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Momentum

Momentum

"Your moment is right now. Are you ready?"

Creativity

Waste More Time!

Waste More Time!

"Invest in your creative capital. You'll see a return on your imagination!"

Big Future

The Reality of Trends

The Reality of Trends

"One person's skepticism is another person's gold!"

Exponential change

Exponential Change

Exponential Change

"Are you ready for the inconceivable to become conceivable?"

Artificial Intelligence

Bend Your Mind

Bend Your Mind

Make your imagination matter more."

Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

"A strategy based on hype isn't a strategy. It's a tombstone for cash"

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Initiative

Commit to It

Commit to It

Start saying when. Better yet, start saying now.

Dancing in the Rain Book

Chaos Warriors

Chaos Warriors

Chaos reveals opportunities that rigid thinking can't see.

Success

Avoiding Marginality

Avoiding Marginality

"Don't just get by. Get better!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I meet a lot of marginal people. They live marginal lives. Chasing marginal goals. With marginal ideas. And keep achieving, well, marginal things! What causes this? Part of it is that they just adopt a mindset

Acceleration

BIG Thinking

BIG Thinking

"There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!" = Futurist Jim Carroll One of my fellow futurists recently included this line in a post I read - "We should be pulling more photons from the sun." He wrote it as an

Initiative

Showing Up.

Showing Up.

Are you drifting in stagnant waters while the world sprints ahead, your initiative gasping to keep up with the lightning speed of progress?

Optimism

Positively.

Positively.

Regularly nurturing your optimism is like fertilizer for your soul

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