"Choose velocity over certainty." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Now is not the time to slow down.

Here's why - all things I've written about before.

The Indecision Tax: Many leaders lose their edge during change, not because they made "bad" choices, but because they waited too long to make any choice at all. Indecision is a tax that drains your competitive advantage while others move ahead.

Inaction is a Decision: When things get volatile, many people freeze and hope for more information. What if there is none? You must realize that standing still is actually a choice. And in a fast-moving world, it is almost always the most expensive risk you can take.

Move Beyond "Pilot Purgatory": Organizations often get stuck in a loop of small, safe tests. Survival requires the speed to move instantly from a small experiment to a massive rollout before the window of opportunity closes.

Strategic Humility Over Pride: To move fast, you must trade the pride of "knowing everything" for the speed of learning new things. What worked yesterday is often a heavy anchor that holds you back from tomorrow's solutions.

Radical Subtraction for Speed: To increase velocity, focus on removing complexity rather than adding more process. Layers of approval and bureaucracy are the primary enemies of speed; you must lean out to accelerate.

Developing Anticipatory Intelligence: The most valuable commodity in a fast world is time. By seeing trends early, you gain a head start to act with velocity before the rest of the market falls into a panic.

The Velocity of Reinvention: Your goal isn't to build a fortress that resists change, but a culture that constantly reinvents itself. Resilience is found in the speed of your transformation, not the strength of your defenses.

Actionable Clarity: Dream, Prove, Win: Innovation follows a simple rhythm: think big enough to dream, start small enough to prove it works, and move fast enough to win. This keeps you moving even when the long-term view is blurry.

The "OODA Loop" on Steroids: Winners are those who observe and act the fastest. By collapsing the time between a decision and an act, you brute-force your way to the right answer through rapid real-world testing.

Escape Velocity: To launch a new idea, you must apply overwhelming force to overcome the pull of "how we've always done it." If you don't pick up the pace, the gravity of the past will eventually pull you down.

Stop waiting for clarity that won't come.

Get moving.

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**#Velocity** **#Certainty** **#Speed** **#Action** **#Leadership** **#Decisions** **#Movement** **#Agility** **#Innovation** **#Change** **#Strategy** **#Momentum** **#Clarity** **#Transformation** **#Reinvention** **#Fast** **#OODA** **#Indecision** **#Escape** **#Focus** **#Anticipation** **#Simplicity** **#Courage** **#Winning** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-choose-velocity-over-certainty/

"Your goal should always be to make the impossible achievable! (Despite the chaos)" - Futurist Jim Carroll

The old rules of stability have been completely incinerated.

We are living through a period of intense volatility.

We often don't know what comes next.

And what we should do about it.

Chaos rules.

Right now, most people are still trying to find a dry place to hide, waiting for this latest storm of change to pass, but that is a losing strategy.

I wrote Dancing in the Rain for moments like this.

The core of the book - and my thinking - is that you can’t wait for the world to calm down; you have to learn to find your rhythm within the chaos. If you stay stuck in a mindset that you are just waiting for "things" to return to normal, you will be waiting a long time.

That's because while certainty might stop, most trends don't.

My 26 Trends for 2026 series highlights that making the impossible achievable is about mastering the art of the pivot.

This means building an "Optionality Architecture" that allows you to turn sudden economic ruptures into new opportunities.

Instead of being paralyzed by the wind and the rain, you need to focus on "Velocity of Recovery."

Despite everything going on, you need to continue to develop your ability to fail fast, learn faster, and keep moving forward.

The goal isn't just to survive the volatility, but to use it as the very fuel that makes your most ambitious goals possible.

Welcome to a typical Monday, 2026.

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**#Impossible** **#Achievable** **#Goals** **#Volatility** **#Resilience** **#Dancing** **#Chaos** **#Pivot** **#Optionality** **#Recovery** **#Leadership** **#Mindset** **#Ambition** **#Change** **#Momentum** **#Forward** **#Strategy** **#Transformation** **#Opportunity** **#Velocity** **#Adaptation** **#Bold** **#Monday** **#Fuel** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/daily-inspiration-your-goal-should-always-be-to-make-the-impossible-achievable/

8:27am Velocity by The Ken Walker Sextet from Terra Firma
#TheKenWalkerSextet #Velocity #TheMorningSet #KUVO

"The future was never about the 'art of the deal,' It's always been about the art of the pivot." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Look at the sheer velocity at which Mark Carney is operating right now.

Regarding the recent news, he isn't paralyzed by analysis or bogged down in endless negotiations waiting for the "perfect" terms. He is acting with speed and decisiveness. Yesterday, reorienting the defence industry to avoid the US and build more in Canada, and shifting agriculture and energy markets beyond the southern neighbor.

As a Canadian, it is fascinating to watch.

Pivots, every single time.

His approach perfectly illustrates a core truth about navigating tomorrow: the importance of the 'pivot.'

Maybe he's been reading my stuff LOL! If you have been following my Daily Inspiration posts over the last few months, you know this is a central theme for thriving in our exponential world. Agility beats negotiation every time. I’ve explored this from the internal "mindset pivot" to the ruthless "slash and burn pivot," but the most crucial element is being prepared to shift.

Back in December, when I introduced Principle **#19** in my "26 Principles for 2026" series, I detailed exactly how to prepare for this kind of speed using what I call "Optionality Architecture."

That's all about the pivot!

Here is what I had to say about moving beyond the singular plan:

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In an era of relentless acceleration, "a single roadmap is a liability. It’s a rigid path in a fluid world." If you are solely focused on landing one specific "deal" or following one linear path, you are exposed. By the time you finish negotiating the terms, the reality those terms were based on has likely already shifted.

To combat this, you need Optionality Architecture. You must "throw out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead." A true pivot isn't a panicked reaction to a crisis; it is a "pre-validated alternative strategy, sitting on the shelf, ready to be activated at a moment's notice."

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Carney understands that speed is the new currency. When you have a portfolio of pivots ready, you don't have to hold a strategy meeting. You just push the button." This is the only way to operate in a fast-paced future: "Stop waiting for certainty and start creating it!"

Do you have your 'optionality architecture' in place?

Because given the crazy, unstable volatility of the continuous artistic failures of every deal, it's pretty much a necessity at this moment in time!

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If you missed it, you can catch Jim's 26 Principles for 2026 at 2026.jimcarroll.com. Most of what he suggested as important ideas are emerging at speed.

**#Pivot** **#Optionality** **#Agility** **#Leadership** **#Strategy** **#Speed** **#Canada** **#Carney** **#Change** **#Future** **#Adaptation** **#Automotive** **#Decisiveness** **#Action** **#Resilience** **#Transformation** **#Velocity** **#Trade** **#Innovation**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/02/decoding-tomorrow-daily-the-future-was-never-about-the-art-of-the-deal-its-always-been-about-the-art-of-the-pivot/

"Your future won’t be defined by the setbacks that might sideline you, but by what you decide to do with the velocity of your recovery!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Next week, I will be standing on stage in Toronto at the Canadian Automotive
Dealers Summit.

As I prepare that keynote, this quote is the central pillar of my message.

The automotive industry is currently navigating a series of high-speed "sideline" events: interest rate volatility, a turbulent EV transition and pullback, Tesla's essentially deciding to leave the market, and the arrival of aggressive new global competitors. In Canada, that also involves the looming arrival of more Chinese-built EVs, as well as fast-moving turmoil in the automotive manufacturing sector (with resultant brand destruction) due to tariffs.

It's easy for a dealer to feel injured, battered, and bruised by this pace of change!

But as I’ve learned personally over the last few months of my own physical recovery, the injury itself isn't the defining moment.

The defining moment is the velocity you choose once you decide to get back in the game.

What's happening in the auto world right now is a massive widening of the "Resilience Gap" - that's what I write about in my book Dancing in the Rain. Some are still sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the "old normal" to return.

And then there are the leaders who are engineering a new future right now.

They aren't just recovering; they are using the momentum of this current setback to a faster pivot toward software-defined vehicles, a faster adoption of hybrids in light of the EV pullback, new digital customer journeys, and hyper-efficient service models.

One group is frozen - the other is moving.

I'm in the latter camp. Yesterday, I went back to the gym for the first time since my spinal injury. It’s a literal manifestation of this principle. I wasn't going back to where I was; I was going back to build the strength required for what’s next.

The automotive industry is at the same crossroads. You can’t control the volatility that sidelined you, but you have absolute control over your recovery speed. In Toronto, we’re going to talk about how to stop looking at the rearview mirror of "what happened" and start focusing on the "velocity" of the next logical move.

Strength doesn't return in the absence of struggle—it returns the moment you decide to show up and accelerate.

You need to think the same way.

Let's get moving.

Futurist Jim Carroll spoke to the same event in 2012, and will be doing a retrospective look back and forward in his keynote.

**#Recovery** **#Velocity** **#Resilience** **#Automotive** **#Comeback** **#Leadership** **#Future** **#Acceleration** **#Strength** **#Dealers** **#Toronto** **#Transformation** **#Momentum** **#Pivot** **#Change** **#Strategy**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/02/daily-inspiration-your-future-wont-be-defined-by-the-setbacks-that-might-sideline-you-but-by-what-you-decide-to-do-with-the-velocity-of-your-recovery/

Fraud Signup Velocity Checks

Throttle risky signups by IP and device fingerprint.

#php #python #fraud #signup #velocity #riskscoring #backendsafety #security #growth #viralcoding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc2ZYa1AqP4

#velocity : quickness of motion

- French: vitesse

- German: Die Geschwindigkeit

- Italian: velocità

- Portuguese: velocidade

- Spanish: velocidad

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

https://www.fogolf.com/1144632/what-you-need-to-know-australian-golf-digest-2/ What you need to know – Australian Golf Digest #article #equipment #Golf #GolfBalls #GolfDigest #GolfNews #MikeMadson #QuadrilateralDipyramidDimplePattern #Titleist #TourSoft #Velocity

Earth spins a little over 1,600 km/h at the equator 🌐. At the 45°N point, that speed drops down to just 1,180 km/h https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/how-fast-does-earth-spin

🖼️ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latitude_lines_color.svg

#launch #velocity #spaceport

Strengthening Coastal Flood Forecasting Through Event-Based Data Capitalization - A Case Study From The December 2022 Storm Surge In Québec City
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #hydrospatial #marine #maritime #sealevelrise #stormsurge #extremeweather #climatechange #coast #coastal #risk #hazard #erosion #innundation #flood #flooding #coastalmanagement #hydrodynamic #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #velocity #water #hydrology #infrastructure #cost #economics #damage #publicsafety #SaintLawrence #Quebec #QuebecCity #canada #Fluvial #Estuary #riskmanagement #historic #topography #bathmetry #urban #planning #urbanarea

"The moment between having an idea and executing it is gone" - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Get ready for the reality that the distance between ‘imagination’ and ‘reality’ is collapsing

We are on Day 25. We are one day away from the finish line!

Today, you need to think about speed, velocity, and acceleration.

Yes, I've covered a lot about the issue of speed (Day 1) and scale (Day 16). However, before we conclude this series, it is essential to understand the actual physics, science, and technology behind the phenomena unfolding in our exponential world.

Here's the core issue: for the vast majority of human history, the relationship between your imagination and the realization of what you could achieve was governed by the "friction" of the physical world. It took time to do things. If a civilization wanted to build a cathedral, it measured the project in centuries. If a pharmaceutical company sought to cure a disease, it measured the timeline in decades.

Time was the constant barrier to progress, something that was not easily broken. In that way, you could think of it as a tax levied on progress.,
In 2025, that tax was repealed.

We have entered the era of the "Collapse of Time."

The old "operating system" that has governed progress, where step B had to patiently wait for step A to finish before it could move forward, is being overwritten by an exponential new world in which many things happen all at once.

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

Here's why.

If we look back at what happened over the last two years, with the arrival of AI and the maturing of many other trends, the issue of acceleration is everywhere.

Keep reading!

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**#Time** **#Instantaneity** **#Velocity** **#Compression** **#Acceleration** **#Speed** **#Execution** **#Imagination** **#Latency** **#Innovation**

Futurist Jim Carroll is done with writing books about the issue of speed, because it seems everybody is finally getting it.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-25-collapse-of-time-the-moment-between-having-an-idea-and-executing-it-is-gone/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nobsagile/115770939233159666

Frohe Weihnachten euch allen! Wenn du #dev bist und in einem #agile #team arbeitest, vielleicht ist diese Artikelserie was für dich. Ich habe ein paar Praxis-Tipps für #development Teams zusammengeschrieben. Es geht um #daily #storypoint #velocity #dod #spikes #techdept und wie du damit umgehen kannst. Mehr im Thread...

https://no-bullshit-agile.de/agile-fuer-entwickler.html

Teknik Menganalisis Speed of Price Movement (Velocity Analysis) dalam Trading

#Tradingan - Teknik Menganalisis #Speed of Price Movement (#Velocity Analysis) dalam #Trading - Dalam aktivitas trading, kebanyakan #trader pemula hingga menengah cenderung fokus pada dua hal utama: arah pergerakan harga (#trend) dan level harga penting seperti support dan resistance. Padahal, ada satu elemen krusial yang sering terlewatkan, yaitu kecepatan pergerakan harga atau yang dikenal…

https://tradingan.com/teknik-menganalisis-speed-of-price-movement-velocity-analysis-dalam-trading

“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - Futurist Jim Carroll

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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. Like I've said - I haven't had a job for 35 years, and I work really hard to not have to get a job!

It's worth reading, because it predicted with precision the modern organization of today.

Think about where we are now: many organizations don't define themselves by the depth of their staff - they do so by the reach of their skills network.

But in 2026 and beyond, the sophisticated reach of a networked organization is not enough.

It's no longer about the reach of your skills network, but also the speed with which they operate.

If they aren't as fast as you, it will slow you down even further, stunt your progress, and ruin your ability to align with exponential trends.

That's why, in 2026 and beyond, you have to stop letting slow partners kill your speed.
The Issue of Network Velocity

We are on Day 20. We have built your internal engine: You have the Unapologetic Uniqueness (Day 17), an Antifragile Mindset (Day 18), and Optionality Architecture (Day 19).

Do those things, and you are getting ready for our exponential world.

But as they say, "but wait, there's more!" Now, we must look outside.

You can have a Ferrari engine (your mindset), but if you are driving in a convoy of tractors (your partners), you are going to move at the speed of a tractor!

And here's the thing about what this means to the networked organization, and perhaps your role in it as a freelancer: in a linear world, we picked partners based on stability, history, and comfort. We stuck with the vendor we’d used for 20 years because "they know us."

In an exponential world, loyalty to the past is a guarantee for failure. If your supply chain, your technology vendors, or your peer group are evolving linearly while the market accelerates exponentially, they aren't just slowing you down.

They are anchors.

This means that another discipline you must master going forward is Network Velocity.

Learn why.

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**#Velocity** **#Network** **#Freelance** **#Speed** **#Agility** **#Partners** **#Scale** **#Synchronization** **#Exponential** **#Frictionless**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-20-network-velocity-if-you-are-the-fastest-person-in-the-room-you-are-in-the-wrong-room/

“Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on multiplication.” - Futurist Jim Carroll

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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. After all, there is a remarkably narrow window between "this will never work" and "how did we miss this?"

We are on Day 16. Earlier in this series (go back to Day 2), we confronted the staggering velocity of change—the doubling of scientific knowledge, the acceleration of technological breakthroughs.

But there is a massive, invisible chasm we have not yet crossed:

It is the gap between intellectually knowing the numbers and viscerally comprehending what they mean for your reality in 36 months. It's called the scale-blindness epidemic, and why your brain cannot comprehend what is coming.

Consider this: you can read the reports on AI growth, computing power, or synthetic biology until your eyes bleed. You can nod your head and agree that things are moving fast.

But deep down, you don't believe it.

Why? Because you are a human being. We are linearly wired creatures living in an exponential world. Our brains evolved to track linear threats—a lion moving across the savannah at a constant speed. We understand “1, 2, 3, 4, 5.” Slow, linear growth.

But it seems we are biologically incapable of intuitively grasping “1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.” Wildly fast exponential growth.

Because of this evolutionary flaw, the vast majority of leaders suffer from "Scale-Blindness." When we look at an emerging exponential technology, our brains instinctively project its growth linearly. We do a 1-2-3-4-5 - not a 1-2-4-8-16-32. We look at what it can do today—which is usually underwhelming—and assume next year it will be maybe 10% better. And the fact is, it could be 100% better, or 1,000%, or maybe even 10,000%

And because of our blindness, we fail to miss out on the significance of the trend.

Think about it another way - if we see a 10-foot wave coming and prepare accordingly, completely blind to the fact that the exponential function will turn it into a 100-foot tsunami by the time it reaches shore.

That's why principle **#16** in this series isn't about learning more facts; it's about forcing your brain to undergo a sort of exponential shock therapy so you can cure this blindness before it's too late. That's because there is comfort in incremental thinking!

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**#ScaleBlindness** **#Exponential** **#Velocity** **#Disruption** **#Innovation** **#Acceleration** **#Linear**

Futurist Jim Carroll believes that most organizations are falling way behind when it comes to the 'acceleration gap.'

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-16-scale-blindness-your-brain-is-built-for-addition-the-future-is-built-on-multiplication/

#Design #Analyses
The myth of “no design process” · Why meaningful design starts where ease ends https://ilo.im/168zk6

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#Constraints #Frictions #Velocity #AI #DesignProcess #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Velocity And Calving Response Of A Major Greenland Ice Stream To A Lake Drainage Event
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01858-2 <-- shared paper
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#cryosphere #glacier #glacial #greenland #velocity #calving #remotesensing #earthobservation #GIS #spatial #mapping #GPS #GNSS #radar #SermeqKujalleq #Kangia #JakobshavnIsbræ) #KalaallitNunaat #icestream #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GLOF #glaciallake #drainage #subglacial #flood #flooding #arctic #warming #climatechange #flowdynamics #numericalmodel #model #modeling #fieldobservation

"To move fast, you don't need more gas. You need less drag." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Get rid of the anchors that are keeping you back. The weights that are holding you down. The chains that bind you to yesterday. The barriers that block your way.

And the things that are slowing you down.

We are on Day 11. You've committed to connecting externally for speed (Day 10). Now you must look inside and confront the greatest enemy of internal velocity: complexity.

Your future depends on the idea of Radical Subtraction. It might not make sense, but to move faster in our exponential world, you need to stop adding things and take things away.

In our old, slow, linear world, we solved problems by adding. If there was a risk, we added a compliance step. If there was miscommunication, we added a meeting to fix it. If there was a new opportunity, we added a committee. If there were a disruption, we would develop a strategy to deal with it. Over time, this addition was seen as sophistication and control.

We added things to try to deal with the complexity the world was throwing at us.

But here's the thing - in an exponential world, this accumulated complexity is organizational cholesterol. It clogs the arteries of decision-making. Every extra approval layer, every redundant report, and every "alignment meeting" slows down your Execution Velocity (Day 8) and makes it impossible to achieve a Moonshot (Day 9).

I've long talked about this from the stage as the accumulation of 'organizational sclerosis.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVgslECVwKw&t=2s

It's clogging up your future, slowing you down, killing your initiative. What is it? It's the condition where your arteries of creativity and initiative become clogged because everyone keeps doing things - even though no one remembers why they are doing them. It’s not just annoying; it’s a health hazard for your business that blocks the flow of new ideas.

And here's the thing - you cannot add your way to agility. When the world speeds up, your internal systems must simplify.

Here's why...

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Futurist Jim Carroll has long been intensely frustrated with bureaucracy and organizational sclerosis - with that, perhaps, being the reason why he has worked as a solo entrepreneur for 35 years!

**#Velocity** **#Subtraction** **#Simplicity** **#Agility** **#Speed** **#Focus** **#Innovation** **#Leadership** **#Future** **#Execution**
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-11-to-move-fast-you-dont-need-more-gas-you-need-less-drag/

#velo #velotaf #velocity @vincentxavier

Je me suis remis au vélo récemment...
Je constate que la majorité des pistes cyclables semblent avoir été placées généralement au détriment des piétons et des transports en communs.
En Île de France, j'ai l'impression que nombreuses pistes ont été peintes de ci de là sans réelle réflexion autre que de ne pas trop gêner les voitures.

#Business #Pitfalls
The hidden cost of shipping too fast · Moving quickly doesn’t mean fast progress https://ilo.im/168lws

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#Shipping #Velocity #Speed #Clarity #ProblemSolving #DesignTeam #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign