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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 20:09:01 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "If you want to move fast tomorrow, you must unburden yourself from the anchor that is yesterday." — Futurist Jim Carroll

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.

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   Day 2: It's all about "Strategic Self-Pruning" - think of it as shedding your past to fuel your future speed.

   Let's start here.

   Old habits die hard. In an exponential world old habits need to die faster.

   If Day 1 was about resetting your internal clock, Day 2 is about getting a new clock altogether.

   We live in an era where the half-life of a profitable business model, a valuable skill set, or a dominant market position is shrinking exponentially. Remember that line I often share? What used to last a career now lasts a decade; what lasted a decade now lasts a few years. 

   That skill you had two months ago? It's out of date already!

   How do you possibly keep up in a world which is changing so crazy fast?

   By getting rid of your anchors! You need to learn how you can run free and figure out what the heck is going on, and what you need to do be a part of it. And to do that, you need new habits - to ingest new knowledge, learn new skills, scan new horizons, take new risks, and chart a new path forward.

   Look, I think you might be reading this series because you really want to figure out how to move forward in 2026. So here's the thing - one of the most important things you need to do is get rid of your past habits, ideas and routines to build a different future.

   In my work with global organizations, I see the same pattern repeat: the greatest barrier to future velocity isn't a lack of new ideas; it's the crushing weight of old ones. Let's call it the "Legacy Load"—the accumulated mental habits, comfortable routines, and once-valuable expertise that now act as an anchor in a tidal wave of change.

   To catch the exponential wave, you must stop hoarding the past.

   Here's what you need to do -> read the post for my overview!

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   Futurist Jim Carroll wastes a lot of time playing with new ideas in order to discover the ideas that will help him learn the new things that matter.

   **#Unlearn** **#Pruning** **#Habits** **#LettingGo** **#Evolution** **#Adaptation** **#Unburdened** **#Reinvention** **#Release** **#Forward**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/11/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-strategic-self-pruning-if-you-want-to-move-fast-tomorrow-you-must-unburden-yourself-from-the-anchor-that-is-yesterday/

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   Isaac Ji Kuo (isaackuo@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 23:40:06 JST Isaac Ji Kuo

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   @VikingChieftain @joesticker

   Airborne operations were always something only used in special circumstances, so I really don't think we can say much of anything about its future.

   In particular, Russia does not have to deal with a 100 mile wide strait in between itself and Ukraine. In those circumstances, it may be impossible to assault beaches laden with mines and defenders.

   Paratroopers might be the only way to get past those defenses.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 18:25:15 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "To be a part of tomorrow, you need to be a part of the journey!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   An organization will never successfully get to where it needs to go if it doesn't have the full support and understanding of its team - and in some cases, my role is to help build that support and understanding.
   Here's a photo from when I was doing a stage check on Friday in Birmingham, England, before my keynote Saturday for service managers of KwikFit, an automotive services company with hundreds of locations throughout the UK. It was a pretty large crowd, with about 500 of them in the room; my keynote was the closing bit for this short one-day event that the leadership organized, with a message that had an eye to the future.

   Many of my keynotes are for senior leadership teams of organizations as they take on the major challenges and trends impacting their industry. And yet, many others are like this event - one where the leadership team thinks that it is important that those 'in the trenches' - the individuals throughout the organization who are interacting with customers, doing the heavy lifting, and undertaking the overall mission of the organization - need to understand how things might change in the future.

   In other words, it's important that if they are to be part of tomorrow, they need to be part of the journey - and in fact, will bear much responsibility for the success of that journey. That's why, at the opening of my talk, I challenged them with this observation: "

   “Innovation and change is going to invade your life. The big question is - what are you going to do with it?”

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/04/daily-inspiration-leadership-change-management-to-be-a-part-of-tomorrow-you-need-to-be-a-part-of-the-journey/

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   Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him (dj3ei@mastodon.radio)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2022 19:14:28 JST Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him

   in reply to

   @feditips
   I see.

   Trying to learn a thing from this: Your argument assumes that the Fediverse isn't all that integrated yet, so (at this point in time) it still rather matters (to the end-user interface) whether one is talking to a peertube or a pixelfed server. Correct?

   That'd establish a real conflict of interest, between what's needed now and what's desirable for a better future.

   In another word: Tricky. Indeed.
   @afranke