Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Inspiration

Steps

You don’t reinvent yourself at the moment of crisis. You reinvent yourself in all the unremarkable days that follow it.

Latest stories

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Acceleration

Certain Trends are Certain

Maybe I was onto something when I was sharing the Flintstones and Jetsons idea on stage.

Failure

Lemonade

Life is going to throw curveballs at you—that's a guarantee. You'll have big wins and moments that feel like a total letdown. The secret is not to let those letdowns define you.

Change the Narrative

One of the interesting things about AI these days is how it can sift through vast volumes of information to come up with some interesting nuggets of insight.

Agility

Disrupting the Disruptors

What do you do if your industry is moving so fast that the competition seems to have an insurmountable advantage? What if they seem to own the disruption game? Disrupt them instead.

Agility

Competitive Intelligence

In a world in which change occurs at blinding speed, having a good idea of what's going on with your key competencies can be one of the most important sources of innovative ideas that you can have.

2025

Reality Check

It seems that lots of folks are learning that certain choices lead to certain outcomes, which many long suggested would be inevitable. The problem here is that folks bought into the lies.