The Daily Inspiration

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

Being Different

"Your inner oddness is not a flaw. It’s a superpower!" - Futurist Jim Carroll With a little bit of downtime, I've been working in the home office on my next book. The title keeps flipping around: right now, I've settled on "Being

Being Different
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Courage?

Courage?

"Hesitation is the currency of cowards!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Successful people move forward with decisiveness - failures never move forward because they waste too much time waiting to make the decisions that matter. I wasn't quite happy with the original image I created for today&

Unproductivity

Unproductivity

"Waste time well" - Futurist Jim Carroll Wasted time is productive time. And yet, it is criticized.  It is the common view that those who waste time are lazy, distracted, and not at all helpful. And apparently, there is a lot of this unproductive time - according to

Space Based Energy

Space Based Energy

"If you can't dream big, why bother dreaming at all?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Out on the fringe of exploration are a lot of 'crazy' ideas - that is until they aren't so crazy anymore! I was thinking of that when my

The AI Arms Race

The AI Arms Race

"One day soon, you'll need an AI to know how to use Al!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's been just over a year and a half since OpenAI announced ChatGPT, and since then, the AI floodgates have been opened. That company, along with Google

The Anti-Future Future

The Anti-Future Future

"When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's a weird time to be a futurist - have you noticed that the future has become a culture war? While you deal with the realities of science, technologies,

The Rebels

The Rebels

"Disruptors value defiance over blind obedience!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Be like Chuck House. In a world in which you are surrounded by yes-men, be the person who is willing to say no since sometimes following the lead is exactly the wrong thing to do. Years ago, the

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