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!"

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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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Hope and Fear

Hope and Fear

One of the worst things we can ever do in the arc of our trajectory is to never take the first step to try something.

Embracing Mediocrity Book

Book Release!

Book Release!

"One will make you laugh. The other will make you move!"

Volatility

Dancing in the Rain

Dancing in the Rain

It has never been about predicting the storm. It’s about how you show up inside it!

Volatility

Chasing Growth

Chasing Growth

In times of volatility, downturn, or disruption, the winners are those who don’t just react to change—they run toward it.

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Opting Out

Opting Out

What we know from previous downturns is this: those who chose to opt out experienced growth during the downturn that others did not see.

Volatility

7 Stages of Economic Grief

7 Stages of Economic Grief

Great leaders don’t stall in grief—they lead their way through it straight into acceptance and hope.

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