2026

Each year, since 2006, I have started the year with my 10 Great Words list.

Opportunities become even bigger when exponential trends become a reality. But here's the thing - it's up to you whether you will turn it into an opportunity, or whether the challenge will bury you. It depends on the choices you make and the actions you take.

This is not just a theoretical idea - over the last 24 months, we have witnessed the compression of timelines across every sector.

Share your flaws. Highlight your failures. Document your mistakes. Admit you are human!

You need to get beyond the hype and hysteria. The competition isn’t between you and the AI. The competition is between “You + AI” and “You Alone.”

In a linear world, we had "industries." Banks were banks. Car companies built cars. Hospitals treated patients. Competitors were the people who sold exactly what you sold. In an exponential world, these definitions are disappearing - because the boundaries that define an industry are disappearing.