This week’s tools to better leadership #sagacious #pioneer #deliberate
In touch with the wisdom in and around you, the capacity and desire to stretch into new areas is ripe. Support experiments and reassure that learning is the goal, (there is no failure where there is new info).
"Real progress is often invisible, boring, and repetitive. Don't mistake the quiet for regression!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's often about the small steps, not the big leaps.
The quiet progress you make, not the noisy success you relish.
The effort you put in daily, not the audacious stretch goal you choose to chase once.
Showing up all the time, not just when it suits you.
Measuring your progress by what really matters - not by what you think matters.
Some people chase success with reckless abandon, thrashing about with wild activity.
Others just show up.
And put in the work.
Success is about patience.
It's often quiet, slow, and deliberate.
Unseen.
But it's there.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is working on a longer-term timeline these days!
**#Progress** **#Patience** **#Consistency** **#Persistence** **#QuietSuccess** **#SmallSteps** **#ShowUp** **#Discipline** **#Effort** **#Growth** **#Dedication** **#Journey** **#Commitment** **#SlowAndSteady** **#Resilience** **#Focus** **#Determination** **#DailyWork** **#Mindset** **#Trust** **#Process** **#Invisible** **#Deliberate** **#Perseverance** **#Onwards**
Lily and Ranunculus, Amy Lincoln
I was looking at this for a while this morning, trying to figure out how to explain the feel. Like wide-awake, but quiet, calm, but exciting, simplified, but complex interactions. Sort of opposing forces where anything is possible, for some reason I'm thinking about the first time you make out with someone ✨ 😁
#art #excitement #cool #simple #energy #life #night #sparkly #deliberate #quiet #warm
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
#HackerNews #Deliberate #Internet #Shutdowns #InternetFreedom #CyberSecurity #DigitalRights #OnlineAccess #ConnectivityIssues
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted “to prevent immoral activities.” No additional explanation was given. The timing couldn’t have been worse: communities still reeling from a major earthquake lost emergency communications, flights were grounded, and banking was interrupted. Afghanistan’s blackout is part of a wider pattern. Just since the end of September, there were also major nationwide internet shutdowns in ...
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.
"The key to tomorrow is finding your pace in an accelerating world!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I'm down in Arizona for an event tomorrow for a room full of executives from the utility and energy sector, and I've got a wonderful new slide deck chock full of trends impacting the industry I'll have a lot to cover in the days ahead.
That said, what' pretty clear is that this industry - like many - is struggling to adapt to the overwhelming pace of change. It's a slow industry in a fast world.
The biggest issue is that they are faced with unprecedented demand to bring new power to the market because of the juggernaut of AI data centers, but the industry is slowed by regulation, massive complexity to bring new power to market, system inertia, and more. On top of that, they are faced with extreme volatility and uncertainty because of political challenges and the 'culture wars,.' all in the face of new technologies and methodologies that continue to accelerate. (Think wind, solar, batteries, microgrids.)
Part of what I realized, building the deck, was that I can't just talk about speed - I need to talk about pace. It's about finding the right trends to follow, the right disruption to chase, the right innovations to integrate. It's not about moving quickly willy-nilly to try to scramble to solve big problems, but moving with deliberate intent to master those problems - if that makes any sense.
It means understanding the long arc of the trends, and committing to them i the long term despite short-term volatility.
That's why the key to tomorrow is finding your pace in an accelerating world!
You are probably caught in the same situation.
Speed without strategy is just expensive chaos. Action without reflection produces motion, not progress. Showing up everywhere means being fully present nowhere.
Your competitive advantage isn't doing everything faster—it's knowing exactly where speed matters and where patience wins.
Because the future belongs to those who can run the full race, not just the first mile.
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Futurist Jim Carroll tries to pace his enthusiasm for fast change.
#Pace** **#Strategy** **#Sustainability** **#Energy** **#Utilities** **#Focus** **#Deliberate** **#Momentum** **#Endurance** **#Wisdom
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-the-key-to-tomorrow-is-finding-your-pace-in-an-accelerating-world/
cover for Dan Shocker's Macabros Nr. 9, Rudolf Sieber-Lonati
there are a bunch of covers for this magazine online, so good. I don't speak German but I'd take a stab at this: Blood Rain. That's not good! I love the eyes of those weird sharks, they look insane. The lizard people look like the type to poke tridents at you for fun. The horror! 🤣
#art #lowbrow #horror #magic #spooky #blood #deliberate #onPurpose #lizards
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