"The moment between having an idea and executing it is gone" - 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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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In 2025, that tax was repealed.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/

Today in Labor History December 26, 1862: The U.S. military hanged 38 Indigenous people in Mankato, Minnesota, for participating in the "Sioux Outbreak," in the nation’s largest single-day public mass execution. They built the gallows in a square shape, with ten nooses per side. They buried the victims in a mass grave along the bank of the Minnesota River. Despite a large guard force posted at the gravesite, doctors stole all the corpses on the first night to use for research. William Worrall Mayo took the body of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ (Stands on Clouds). In the late 20th century, the Mayo Clinic returned his remains to a Dakota tribe and created a scholarship for a Native American student as apology.

The mass execution was punishment for an uprising that had begun in August. The U.S. government had forced the Sioux to give up their land and move onto reservations on a thin strip of land along the Minnesota River. The government also encouraged them to stop hunting and become farmers. However, the winter of 1861 was particularly harsh, causing mass starvation. Competition for resources increased between the Indigenous people, and the white settlers and traders. In August, 1862, a faction led by Chief Little Crow decided to attack the Lower Sioux Agency, and drive the settlers from the Minnesota River Valley. In the following weeks, they escalated their attacks, killings hundreds of settlers. The U.S. military, which was bogged down with the Civil War, was slow to respond. But by late September, they had quashed the uprising. Initially, the U.S. government sentenced 303 Indigenous men to death. President Lincoln reviewed the convictions, offered clemency to 265, and approved the death sentences of 38. Most of the defendants had no lawyers and spoke no English and had no way to defend themselves in court. Some of the trials were as shorts as five minutes each.

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Your time is your most expensive investment.

#leadership #execution #discipline

Your time is your most expensive investment.

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The fastest way to lose focus is to compare. 🚫

#Entrepreneurship #Execution #Focus

Today in Labor History December 22, 1989: Ion Iliescu overthrew Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Communist dictator of Romania, after days of bloody protests against his repressive rule. Ceausescu and his wife were tried and convicted of genocide against the Romani people, and executed on Christmas Day, 1989. In the 1970s and 80s, Queen Elizabeth had granted him knighthood, and both the U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State George Schultz had praised the man.

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