Why these records matter
Daily Inspiration captured foresight in time. That makes the archive useful for more than inspiration: it contains dated claims, observations and weak signals that can be compared with what happened later.
This collection recovers likely prediction / receipt candidates. It is deliberately conservative: inclusion here means the post deserves editorial review as a dated foresight record, not that every sentence should automatically become a formal Prediction or Signal.
Recovered candidates
2022-02-14 — Daily Inspiration: “Failed leadership: When you spend more time talking about what you can’t do rather than what you can do!”
“Failed leadership: When you spend more time talking about what you can’t do rather than what you can do!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I try really hard in these daily posts to be inspirational, upbeat, and motivational, but in some moments of time, we must draw that inspiration from the opposite of that. So here’s what we’ve learned in the last few weeks - the ‘active inaction I began talking about as a trend some months ago is very real; the ‘aggressive indecision I’ve highlighted as a leadership failure issue since 2002 is prevalent, and the fast speed of current events can quickly lead to organizational and leadership failure. We continue to witness this in real-time in my country of Canada;
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2022-09-15 — Daily Inspiration: “If you can’t acknowledge your competition, you won’t acknowledge your future!”
“If you can’t acknowledge your competition, you won’t acknowledge your future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 1989, I was almost fired from my job for a global professional services firm as the result of a magazine cover story about e-mail featuring me. The other day, I noticed that my wife got rid of the mailbox at our front door - and with that, it’s the end of the era! The two stories are essentially interlinked, 33 years apart, and I share them below.
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2022-10-27 — Daily Inspiration: “Milestones are valuable markers of progress made but also reminders of goals yet to be achieved!”
“Milestones are valuable markers of progress made but also reminders of goals yet to be achieved!” - Futurist Jim Carroll A few photos of my online career from the time I signed on in 1982, through the ’90s and ’00s, up to today’s stage work. hey, I still have hair! Yesterday was a big day, and while reminding myself for the last many months that the date was coming up, I almost missed it!
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2023-01-03 — Daily Inspiration: “The trend that actually happens is the one that isn’t hyped!”
“The trend that actually happens is the one that isn’t hyped!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Part of the art of figuring out the future is knowing this - you’ll often find the real trend by looking beyond the hype to what’s actually happening! The hype? Virtual headset virtual reality, best epitomized by the bold but somewhat doomed bet by Mark Zuckerberg with his Meta initiative.
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2023-01-04 — Daily Inspiration: “You can’t deny denialism!”
“You can’t deny denialism!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Today’s image barely fits into the “Inspiration” theme - my wife REALLY didn’t like the image as I put it together - but that’s the point. We live in perilous, scary times - there are people around you who actually believe the wild conspiracies found in this image below. (And actually, if you go down the rabbit hole of the creator, you will find a store where you can buy a poster of it - and some equally crazy stuff.) The thing is, there’s an economic cost, not to mention big societal implications and business challenges, from collective lunacy.
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2023-01-11 — Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
“It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Next month will mark 3 years since individuals and organizations began to go through the largest disruption they will ever know. With lockdowns, a staggering loss of human life, work-from-home, and the rapid emergence of a digital lifestyle and e-commerce infrastructure - we all had to learn to adapt quickly. As I close out this series of 23 Trends for 2023, I’ve been thinking long and hard as to what the final, all-encompassing trend should be; to be honest, I’ve had several.
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2023-02-17 — Daily Inspiration: “The future sure as heck doesn’t belong to those who are slow!”
“The future sure as heck doesn’t belong to those who are slow!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The CEOs aren’t happy - because they don’t see any compelling sense of urgency with their team. That’s the message from recent surveys from recruiting firms Russell Reynolds and Price Waterhouse. Bottom line?
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2023-02-21 — Daily Inspiration: “Grow your ideas, not your skepticism!”
“Grow your ideas, not your skepticism!” - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most fascinating trends unfolding in our future involves the world’s oldest profession. No - not that one. Agriculture!
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2023-03-01 — Daily Inspiration: “If you weren’t paying attention in chemistry class, you d better start paying attention now!”
“If you weren’t paying attention in chemistry class, you d better start paying attention now!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Actually, I was really good at chemistry - it was just math. It didn’t really catch my interest though. My dad was a chemical engineer.
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2023-05-02 — Daily Inspiration: “Cynicism isn’t wisdom. It’s the key ingredient for the self-sabotage of your future!”
“Cynicism isn’t wisdom. It’s the key ingredient for the self-sabotage of your future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I finished the original quote! (For the story on the graffiti wall and the quote, see yesterday’s post.) Upon imagining what someone might say, looking back at today one hundred years from now, Martín Caparrós wrote in La Pais, the French newspaper.
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2023-06-06 — Daily Inspiration: “You’ll never get to the future if you never attempt the future!”
“You’ll never get to the future if you never attempt the future! ”- Futurist Jim Carroll If you are into that type of thing you might have tuned into Apple’s WWDC event yesterday to get a first look at their new VR/AR headset - or, what they are calling their new spatial computing device. And if you are like me, you would have been pretty shocked by the price at $3,499 (or about $5,000 Canadian, my home country.) You would have been really disappointed in the tether wire necessary for longer-lasting battery power.
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2023-12-01 — Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #5 - “Elevate your enthusiasm!”
“Elevate your enthusiasm!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course. You will find it on his blog at https://blog.jimcarroll.com, or on the website https://2024.jimcarroll.com For all the whining and complaining of those around you, it’s a great time to be alive!
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2023-12-15 — Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #15 - “Shatter some norms”
“Shatter some norms” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course. You will find it on his blog at https://blog.jimcarroll.com, or on the website https://2024.jimcarroll.com Let’s talk about Taylor Swift, and what you can learn from her stunning success as you go forward into 2024.
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2023-12-29 — Daily Inspiration: 24 Strategies for 2024 #23 - “Cast a more skeptical eye towards many trends, forecasts and predictions”
“Cast a more skeptical eye towards many trends, forecasts and predictions” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running a series that began November 27, 2023, and will end on January 1, 2024 - ‘24 Strategies for 2024.’ Rather than running a trend series for the upcoming year as he has previously, this series will examine a number of his personal beliefs on how to best align yourself with the future. There will be a post each weekday, excluding weekends and holidays, until the series runs its course. You will find it on his blog at https://blog.jimcarroll.com, or on the website https://2024.jimcarroll.com You need to be a little more skeptical of predictions about tomorrow.
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2024-01-15 — Daily Inspiration: Healthcare and the Future - “You can always look forward by looking back!”
“You can always look forward by looking back!” - Futurist Jim Carroll “16 years ago, Futurist Jim Carroll spoke in Washington DC on the future of healthcare. He challenged the audience to think about what the world of healthcare would look like one day in the future - picking an arbitrary, random date of January 15, 2020. Now, 16 years later, take a look at how he did with his predictions!
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2024-03-05 — Daily Inspiration: Initiative & Success - “Seize every moment of magic!”
“Seize every moment of magic!” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s book week! Each day, a post involving one of my books! That’s because there are TWO big milestones this week.
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2024-08-30 — Daily Inspiration: Trends & Timing - “Recognize that every major trend first involves huge short-term risk but is often eventually followed by a massive upside!”
“Recognize that every major trend first involves huge short-term risk but is often eventually followed by a massive upside!” - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the most important things to realize about any future trend is that it can be pretty difficult to achieve any opportunity from it until it matures. That means that in the short term, it can be pretty painful - but in the long pretty, significantly wonderful. Take the idea of e-commerce.
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2025-01-03 — Daily Inspiration: (Grading My 2014 Predictions About 2025) - “Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!”
“Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Welcome to 2025! Back in 2014, I wrote a series of predictions about 2025 - in a document titled, of all things, ‘25 Trends for 2025’. (Intuitive!) At the time I wrote it, most of the news media were busy, as they are every year, contacting futurists, trend forecasters, and guys like me to bang together their year-end articles about “what comes next?
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2025-01-22 — Daily Inspiration: Global politics and trade - “A “blast from the past from 2009 - “Canada announces end of economic relationship with US, & a bold new strategy to 2020”
“Sometimes, satire can become all too real” - Futurist Jim Carroll There’s no doubt that there might not be a lot of logical, rational stuff going on in the next few years. That’s why I keep stressing that volatility is the new normal. With that in mind, I can’t help but reach back to a post I wrote in 2009, which I reshared in 2013.
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2025-02-10 — Daily Inspiration: The Future of Insurance: “New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking”
“New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In just about a month, I’ll head to California to headline a major insurance conference. The fact that I’m speaking in a region that is home to one of the largest insurance losses in US history is not lost on me, and in fact, will provide form for much of my talk.
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2025-03-07 — Daily Inspiration: Giving Back - “Intentional kindness: humanity’s superpower”
“Intentional kindness: humanity’s superpower” - Futurist Jim Carroll, with a shoutout to Drew Sullivan, APB Speakers The image in today’s Inspiration features my good friend Michael Simon; the phrase, “intentional kindness,” comes from one of my speaker bureau agents, Drew Sullivan. One teaches us the importance of finding moments of joy when we need it most and the importance of ‘giving back’; the other involves intentionally making those moments of joy for others because they truly matter. It’s a long post, but I want you to read it.
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2025-05-23 — Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – “You can escape the mediocrity you once embraced, but will you ever fully eradicate it?”
“You can escape the mediocrity you once embraced, but will you ever fully eradicate it?” - Futurist Jim Carroll It’s been a wild voyage bringing these two books to print in just a few months, and I’m loving the feedback and comments from those who have picked up copies. (Are you in? You can grab copies at the Mediocrity website !) But while working on them, I’m always thinking.
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2025-05-29 — Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – “There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!”
“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 observation when he was flying into an American city, and saw an absolute dearth of solar panels on the roofs of homes and buildings. Solar energy - the infrastructure at least - has become desperately cheap and tremendously productive, and we are missing such a big opportunity.
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2025-08-08 — Decoding Tomorrow: 30 Megatrends - #27 America’s Retreat “By abandoning its R&D leadership, the US is ceding the future of global innovation and success to its competitors.”
“By abandoning its R&D leadership, the US is ceding the future of global innovation and success to its competitors.” - Futurist Jim Carroll (Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com) This is a LONG post.
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2025-08-11 — What Comes Next with the Decline of an Empire - Part 2 (“Revisiting my 2017 Predictions”)
It pains me to write this, but it’s pretty clear the United States is accelerating its retreat from global R&D leadership through unprecedented 2025 policy reversals and funding cuts in critical sectors like biomedical science, climate technology, and electric vehicles. In stark contrast, competitor nations are executing ambitious, state-directed industrial strategies to capture dominance in future technologies, fundamentally redrawing the global innovation map and challenging America’s long-held technological hegemony. What does it mean?
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2025-08-12 — Decoding Tomorrow: 30 Megatrends - #29 The Arrival of the Humanoid Robot - “A decade of progress in a year; the humanoid robot era is here, and it’s accelerating with astonishing speed and breathtaking developments.”
“A decade of progress in a year; the humanoid robot era is here, and it’s accelerating with astonishing speed and breathtaking developments.” - Futurist Jim Carroll (Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com) The humanoid robot industry is accelerating due to a convergence of advanced AI, collapsing hardware costs, and massive new investment.
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2025-09-02 — Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – AI and ROI: “Letting fomo drive your ai investment is a recipe for panic spending!”
“Letting FOMO drive your AI investment is a recipe for panic spending!” - Futurist Jim Carroll The other day, I mentioned that one of my favourite newsletters among the flood of content out there is Korn Ferry’s This Week in Leadership - you can sign up here. It’s a regular short overview of key trends with links to longer articles, and I often find nuggets of powerful insight in there. One of the most recent reports on the issue of ‘risky business’ with a summary of a survey from 250 global CEOs and Board directors about the issue of risk.
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2025-09-24 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #2 Agriculture- The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow.”
“The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory. With that being the case, I am writing this new series, The Way Forward: A Trends and Transformation Series, taking a look at the trends redefining industries, and actionable strategies organizations must pursue to align to these realities.
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2025-09-26 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #4 Healthcare: “Yesterday’s medical breakthrough was a new drug. Tomorrow’s breakthrough is the intelligent algorithm that designs the drug, the connected device that delivers it, and the data stream that confirms it worked.”
“Yesterday’s medical breakthrough was a new drug. Tomorrow’s breakthrough is the intelligent algorithm that designs the drug, the connected device that delivers it, and the data stream that confirms it worked.”- Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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2025-09-29 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #5 Construction: “For centuries, construction was about brute force. The next century will be about intelligence—smart materials, robotic precision, and data-driven design.”
“For centuries, construction was about brute force. The next century will be about intelligence—smart materials, robotic precision, and data-driven design.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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2025-09-30 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #6 Insurance - “The future of insurance will be written by those who move from predicting the past to architecting the future, transforming risk from a liability to be avoided into an asset to be managed.”
“The future of insurance will be written by those who move from predicting the past to architecting the future, transforming risk from a liability to be avoided into an asset to be managed.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory. With that being the case, I am writing this new series, The Way Forward: A Trends and Transformation Series, taking a look at the trends redefining industries, and actionable strategies organizations must pursue to align with these realities.
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2025-10-01 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #7 Retail - “Retail success is no longer about moving boxes from a warehouse to a shelf. It’s about moving an experience from a brand story into a customer’s life.”
“Retail success is no longer about moving boxes from a warehouse to a shelf. It’s about moving an experience from a brand story into a customer’s life.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory.
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2025-10-02 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #8 Banking & Financial Services - “For centuries, finance was defined by stability and caution. For the next decade, it will be defined by velocity and agility. The slow will not survive.”
“For centuries, finance was defined by stability and caution. For the next decade, it will be defined by velocity and agility. The slow will not survive.” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog.
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2025-10-06 — Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #9 Auto & Transportation - “A decade from now, the automotive landscape will be dominated by companies that treated 2025’s reality check not as a crisis, but as the greatest competitive opportunity they ever witnessed!”
“A decade from now, the automotive landscape will be dominated by companies that treated 2025’s reality check not as a crisis, but as the greatest competitive opportunity they ever witnessed!” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2025, the headwinds are severe, and the path forward seems shrouded in fog. We’re living through one of the most volatile and unpredictable periods in recent memory. With that being the case, I am writing this new series, The Way Forward: A Trends and Transformation Series, taking a look at the trends redefining industries, and actionable strategies organizations must pursue to align with these realities.
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2025-10-24 — Decoding Tomorrow: Daily Inspiration - “For the first time, social media use might actually be declining. And that’s probably a great thing!”
“For the first time, social media use might actually be declining. And that’s probably a great thing!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Some months ago, I became a first-time grandfather, and I must say, these are some of the most magical moments of my life! But you wouldn’t know it by my social media posts, because I haven’t been posting any pictures.
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2025-11-27 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #6 “Make more ‘better’ mistakes!”
“Make more ‘better’ mistakes!” - Futurist Jim Carroll In 2026, your new ROI should be ROF - “Return on Failure” We are on Day 6. We’ve reset your clock, cleared the path, built your courage, turned on your radar, and accelerated your learning. Now, we need to completely rewire your relationship with failure.
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2025-12-02 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #9: “Know this: if your goals feel ‘realistic,’ you are thinking too small.”
“Know this: if your goals feel ‘realistic,’ you are thinking too small.” - Futurist Jim Carroll We are on Day 9. You’ve committed to the pivot (Day 7), and you are increasing your execution velocity (Day 8). You are moving faster.
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2025-12-08 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 - #13 The Wisdom Inversion: “Know when to get your age out of the way.”
“Know when to get your age out of the way.” - Futurist Jim Carroll We are on Day 13. We just spent Day 12 dismantling your personal hubris - getting your ego out of the way. One of the most important aspects of that?
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2025-12-10 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #15 Escape Velocity “Scale immediately or fail slowly. There is no middle ground.”
“Scale immediately or fail slowly. There is no middle ground.”- Futurist Jim Carroll We are on Day 15! You’ve listened to the edge (Day 13) and filtered out the hype to find a real structural signal (Day 14).
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2025-12-11 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #16 Scale-blindness: “Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on multiplication.”
“Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on multiplication.” - Futurist Jim Carroll When exponential change arrives, it never goes well. That’s because most people fail to understand what it means and don’t act, which is a problem.
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2025-12-12 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #17 Unapologetic Uniqueness: “Always remember that conformity is where tomorrow’s greatness goes to die.”
“Always remember that conformity is where tomorrow’s greatness goes to die.” - Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve long suggested that one of the best ways to align with the future is through this thinking: when everybody is running one way, run the other way! Be the contrarian. The hole in the bucket, the square peg with a bunch of round holes, the one who says “why not?’ when everyone else is saying ‘why?’ We are on Day 17.
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2025-12-17 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #20 Network Velocity: “If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”
“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - Futurist Jim Carroll The 1987 editorial “Tomorrow’s Company Won’t Have Walls” stands as one of the most accurate corporate prophecies of the modern era. And it had a profound impact on my life. It’s probably fair to say that if I hadn’t read it, I wouldn’t have stepped out on my own to start my own company, chase my own career, do my own thing - and become a global freelancer, a nomadic worker, a lone wolf, long before the trend became real and the idea fashionable.
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2025-12-18 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #21 Signal Intelligence - “Your new challenge isn’t finding the insight-it’s filtering out the noise.”
“Your new challenge isn’t finding the insight - it’s filtering out the noise.” - Futurist Jim Carroll It used to be that the problem with the information age was that there was too much information. That’s changed. The new problem is now that not only is there too much information, but much of it is crap.
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2025-12-22 — Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #23 Algorithmic Partnership: “Don’t ‘learn’ AI. Redesign your personal productivity around it.”
“Don’t ‘learn’ AI. Redesign your personal productivity around it.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Like it or not, you will have to learn to live with “The Machine.” We are on Day 24. You have the radar (Day 21), the open road (Day 22), and many principles I’ve shared before that.
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2026-07-01 — Daily Inspiration: ""A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you’re getting more Canadian cowbell.”
“A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you’re getting more Canadian cowbell.” - Futurist Jim Carroll Happy Canada Day! July 1 marks the 159th birthday of what most global surveys rank one of the best places in the world to live.
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Preserve the original wording and date. Later interpretation belongs beside the receipt, never silently inside it. Where a call can now be evaluated, connect it to a Scorecard. Where it remains unresolved, leave the outcome open.
Foresight question
What exactly was being claimed at the time, and what evidence would count as confirmation, partial confirmation or a miss?