"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/

How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-physics-to-escape-an-ice-bowl/

Cheetah’s Acceleration Power

https://tube.blueben.net/w/giS47W8mHJaKrnNnZZyX8h

I’ve just been thinking about this:

I have no idea how performant my car is because I’m practically only accelerating using #adaptiveCruiseControl. I also never switch out of #ecoMode.

#acceleration and #topSpeed have ceased being the least buying factor.

Quan Nguyen (@qnguyen3)

mlx-boosting은 MLX를 활용해 Gradient Boost Tree 및 XGBoost의 학습·예측을 가속화하는 라이브러리로, Apple M3 Max 환경에서 scikit-learn 대비 최대 3.5배 빠른 성능을 제공한다고 보고했습니다. pip로 설치(uv pip install mlx-boosting)하여 바로 사용해볼 수 있다고 안내합니다.

https://x.com/qnguyen3/status/2009272804324073643

#mlx #xgboost #acceleration #performance

Unlock Sport Mode: Driving Performance Button Explained! #shorts

Explore the acceleration modes on a Tesla Model Y Performance! From Sport to Chill, find the perfect driving experience. Sport mode unleashes the full potential, while Chill offers a smoother ride. #TeslaModelY #Acceleration #ElectricVehicle #CarReview from Tesla In The Gong

https://teslainthegongyt.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/unlock-sport-mode-driving-performance-button-explained-shorts/

"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/

TurboDiffusion claims to accelerate #video #diffusion models by 100–200×, yet somehow the real miracle is that it didn't implode under the weight of its own #marketing buzzwords. 🚀💥 Perhaps we should all start measuring #speed in units of #hype per second. 🤔✨
https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion #TurboDiffusion #acceleration #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion

#HackerNews #TurboDiffusion #VideoDiffusion #Acceleration #AIResearch #MachineLearning

Endrohrmemory (tailpipe memory) is a collection of the heartbeat of the Ingolstadt tuning scene. Exhaust coughs, acceleration rhythms and unmistakable sound impressions become pairs that seek each other, lose each other and find each other again.

Laid out like communion wafers, the sound modules wait to be touched and recognised. What begins as a game becomes a ritual: sound is shared, incorporated, remembered. An acoustic archive of acceleration, driving artistry and speed. Between workshop, parking lot, and exhibition space, a collective memory emerges—where engine sound becomes a form of confession.

Thanks to Motor Heroin Ingolstadt for support & sounds.

On view until January 18, 2026 as part of the exhibition "Endrohr Apocalypse" at Kunstverein Ingolstadt.

#EndrohrApocalypse #Endrohrmemory #SoundArt #InstallationArt #CarCulture #TuningScene #AutomotiveCulture
#EngineSound #ExhaustSound #Acceleration #KunstvereinIngolstadt #Ingolstadt #Autostadt

“Don't fear the chaos. Feed on it.” - 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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Bouncing back is a losing strategy!

We are on Day 18. We have established that the future is scaling beyond comprehension (Day 16) and that your only defense is Unapologetic Uniqueness (Day 17).

Now, we must address the environment in which you will operate through 2026 and beyond. It is going to be even more volatile. It is going to be chaotic. It will be characterized by sudden shocks, black swans, and "impossible" events happening at almost every single moment.

Just like 2025.

Except far more volatile.

If you think about it, the standard corporate response to this has been the idea of developing "resilience." Everyone is talking about it, listening to experts on it, finding out how to manage, heck. Heck, even I use the phrase too much - I have a website all about it, resilience.jimcarroll.com.

I've come to realize that going forward, in an exponential world, resilience is not enough.

Resilience is a linear concept. It means surviving a shock and returning to your original shape—like a rubber band. It implies that "bouncing back" to the status quo is the goal. It assumes that going back to where you were - rather than where you should be going - is good enough.

But in 2026, the status quo is death. If you just "bounce back" to where you were in 2024, you are already behind, because 2026 is wildly different from what 'was two years before. Exponential change does that.

That's why you need to stop trying to be resilient and start becoming
Antifragile.

As I wrote in my book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times, the goal isn't to endure the storm. The goal is to use the energy of the storm to accelerate.

To understand why this shift to a mindset beyond 'resilience' is so critical, we can look at the data I compiled in the book. The research is detailed: the safety of the "middle ground" does not exist during periods of volatility. You are either accelerating away from the pack or falling behind it.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time on a crazy number of stages in front of tens of thousands of people who were shellshocked and whipsawed from 2000 to 2003 by economic volatility. I did it again after the 2008 global economic meltdown. And after that, too - every once in a while, I whip out these observations and share them from the stage.

Here's what you need to do right now!

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**#Antifragile** **#Chaos** **#Volatility** **#Resilience** **#Opportunity** **#Innovation** **#Storm** **#Acceleration** **#Growth** **#Adaptation**

Futurist Jim Carroll really thinks you should buy his book, and wants to let you know that you can do that at dancing.jicmarroll.com

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-17-anti-fragilitydont-fear-the-chaos-feed-on-it/

Demain, l' @ENSdeLyon remettra un Doctorat Honoris Causa à Hartmut Rosa, grand penseur de l'accélération.
L'occasion de ré-écouter ce très bon #podcast 🎧 de @franceculture "Hartmut Rosa : comment entrer en résonance ?" (3 janv. 2024)
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/sous-le-soleil-de-platon/sous-le-soleil-de-platon-du-mercredi-03-janvier-2024-3111530
#résonance #accélération #philo #shs #IFuckingLoveSHS

“Your brain is built for addition. The future is built on multiplication.” - 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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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/

"Stop judging the speed of your future by the slow pace of your past." - Futurist Jim Carroll

26 Principles to Master Exponential Growth in 2026 - **#1** Temporal Literacy

It's Day 1 of your new path for 2026! 26 days, 26 principles to get you into the exponential mindset.

Step 1? Master "Temporal Literacy" - in which you stop judging the speed of your future by the slow pace of your past!

The single biggest mistake you can make right now is to believe that you can just keep doing the same old things at the same old deliberate pace that worked for you yesterday.

You can't.

Think about it - your past career success, your accumulated knowledge, and your daily routine have all been built on a 'linear' world - one that involves a slow, steady and expected rate of change. That's gone. The world is accelerating exponentially, creating a massive Temporal Lag between the speed you move and the speed the world demands.

Alvin Toffler called it "Future Shock." You are in the middle of that right now.

Here's what you need to do ....read the full list for insight.

Keep reading.....

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, 26 Principles to Master Exponential Growth in 2026. You can follow the series here: 2026.jimcarroll.com

**#Exponential** **#Learning** **#Acceleration** **#Skills** **#Adaptation** **#Change** **#Knowledge** **#Growth** **#Future** **#Velocity**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/11/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-stop-judging-the-speed-of-your-future-by-the-slow-pace-of-your-past/

"The rate of change outside your control must be met by a greater rate of learning inside your mind!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Most people don't realise what is happening with the exponentiation of trends. And yet, it is and will continue to have a p[profound impact on them. That's why I'm writing this new 2026 series, launching tomorrow.

It's best to put this into perspective in the context of the reality of trends today.

A year ago this month, I was invited by the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates to address the annual AGM of the region - a room full of 700 cabinet ministers and government executives. We spent a lot of time polishing my slide deck, and here are a few key slides. (Forgive the small type - these were prepared for a really big room with a really big LED screen!)

The first had to do with what I call 'the era of acceleration.'

Consider these numbers:

- Amazon Robots: from 1,000 (2012) to 75,000 ↑ Significant Increase (Volume)
- Cost of Human Genome Sequencing: from $100 million (2001) to $200 ↓ Massive Cost Reduction
- Solar Energy: $76 per watt (1977) to $0.20 ↓ Cost Reduction
- 3D Printing: $50 per cm³ (2010) to $0.50 ↓ Cost Reduction
- Battery Storage: $1,100 per kWh (2010) to <$100 ↓ Cost Reduction
- AI Inference Cost, $20.00 / Million Tokens (Nov 2022) to $0.07 / Million Tokens (Oct 2024)
- Access to Space (Low Earth Orbit): $54,500 per kg (Space Shuttle Era) to $2,720 per kg (Falcon 9)
- IoT Capacity (5G), 4G: 100,000 devices per km² to 5G: 1,000,000 devices per km²
- General knowledge doubling : 100 Years (Until 1900) to 12 Hours (Projected 2020)
- Medical knowledge doubling time, 50 Years in 1950 to 73 Days in 2020
- Professional skills relevance: from 30 years historically to a half-life of 6 years today

What' the impact? Skills obsolescence, opportunity blindness, and the drag of legacy!

Starting tomorrow, I'll be taking you on the first principle of adaptation: Temporal Literacy. This is the foundational skill for every futurist, leader, and individual aiming for reinvention. It's the ability to stop judging the future by the slow pace of the past.

Get ready to reset your internal clock!

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Each year, leading into the New Year, Futurist Jim Carroll writes a series designed to get you into the right headspace for what's to come. This year, his "26 Principles to Master Exponential Growth" will take you further into the world of speed. The series starts tomorrow, November 20.

**#Exponential** **#Learning** **#Acceleration** **#Skills** **#Adaptation** **#Change** **#Knowledge** **#Growth** **#Future** **#Velocity**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/11/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-the-rate-of-change-outside-your-control-must-be-met-by-a-greater-rate-of-learning-inside-your-mind/

Ce soir à l’ÉSAD Pyrénées, on poursuit notre exploration d’une perspective techno-critique dans l’art et le design en accueillant une conférence de Loup Cellard.

On cherchera à tisser des liens entre des éléments qui sont rarement abordés ensemble dans la politisation de l'intelligence artificielle :
– l’#impactEnvironnemental du numérique et son #infrastructure,
– l'expérience décevante des interfaces graphiques,
– le rôle de l’#IA dans l’#accélération des rythmes de vies,
– l'infrastructure de capture de données et de #surveillance qui sous-tend les entreprises du numérique.

http://www.loupcellard.com/

https://sailing-dulce.nl/home/article-9072 #climatechange #acceleration #Mazelen #vaccinatiegraad #saharazand Dinsdag 11-11-2025 Een infographic als de bovenstaande kan een lang vertoog in één plaatje helder samenvatten. De maker, Canadees Peter Carter, is klimaatblogger op X, directeur van het Climate Emergency Institute en expert-reviewer bij het #IPCC. Deskundig. De gegevens die hij gebruikte bij de infographic zijn afkomstig van het Europese klimaatbureau Copernicus en het European Centre for Medium-Range..

Given that we'll unlikely get @EUCommission to abolish #Spyware like #eCall from #cars I propose that instead, manufacturers need to look outside that impractical envelope if they want to build #EVs (even #BEVs ffs!) that people can actually afford by focussing on other Vehicle classes.

• I know #L2e may be deemed too restrictive at a deadweight of 270kg, 4kW output [measured on the wheels], 45km/h tops and 1+1 capacity even tho this will be sufficient for most trips from #suburbia to #downtown in car-centric shitholes like #LA during #RushHour but I digress...

• #L5e removes the weight limitations (unlike #L6e & #L7e which only allows #batteries to be discounted from it's 425kg/450kg-600kg max deadweight) and keeps things at a reasonable 15kW output [system output] which is almost precisely 1/3 of my car but with #ElectricVehicles there's way more #torque and thus #acceleration, which is what makes a vehicle actually feel fast and zippy, so it should be on-par if not feel faster given that #Autobahn segments without speed limits are an exception and noone in their right mind expects a sub-€10k PLV to be cushy like an Audi A4.

• Also for fuck sake give us a goddamn #CCS2 #charging socket on the vehicle not just on €13k+ luxury scooters but on like everything because that's an #EU standard and every actual #ChargingStation should support that. If necessary make it a single-phase charging thing if that's the only way possible!

#ElectricCars #EV #BEV #AntiEnshittificationAction #AntiEnshittification #Enshittification

Running deepseek r1 with 1.5b params on a Kria KV260 FPGA utilizing 100% PS CPU (4 x A53 cores @1.33GHz) with inference baseline performance of 2.4 tokens per second #ollama #deepseek #llms #edge #ai #acceleration