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“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - 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.
---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 VelocityWe 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** -
“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - 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.
---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 VelocityWe 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** -
“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---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 VelocityWe 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.
--
**#Velocity** **#Network** **#Freelance** **#Speed** **#Agility** **#Partners** **#Scale** **#Synchronization** **#Exponential** **#Frictionless** -
“If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---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 VelocityWe 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** -
#FF's #Aras25 review seems to have concluded that it was all the fault of the politically clueless #JimGavin that the #FiannaFail leadership bullied the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to adopt a politically clueless candidate for the presidency. 🙄
Glad we cleared that up. 😂🤣
Great reporting by Mícheál Lehane and others at https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/1216/1549211-fianna-fail-review/
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#FF's #Aras25 review seems to have concluded that it was all the fault of the politically clueless #JimGavin that the #FiannaFail leadership bullied the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to adopt a politically clueless candidate for the presidency. 🙄
Glad we cleared that up. 😂🤣
Great reporting by Mícheál Lehane and others at https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/1216/1549211-fianna-fail-review/
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#FF's #Aras25 review seems to have concluded that it was all the fault of the politically clueless #JimGavin that the #FiannaFail leadership bullied the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to adopt a politically clueless candidate for the presidency. 🙄
Glad we cleared that up. 😂🤣
Great reporting by Mícheál Lehane and others at https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/1216/1549211-fianna-fail-review/
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#FF's #Aras25 review seems to have concluded that it was all the fault of the politically clueless #JimGavin that the #FiannaFail leadership bullied the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to adopt a politically clueless candidate for the presidency. 🙄
Glad we cleared that up. 😂🤣
Great reporting by Mícheál Lehane and others at https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/1216/1549211-fianna-fail-review/
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#FF's #Aras25 review seems to have concluded that it was all the fault of the politically clueless #JimGavin that the #FiannaFail leadership bullied the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to adopt a politically clueless candidate for the presidency. 🙄
Glad we cleared that up. 😂🤣
Great reporting by Mícheál Lehane and others at https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/1216/1549211-fianna-fail-review/
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Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - 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.
---Build options, not plans!
We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).
The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex
Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!
Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.
Here's why.
In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.
A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.
The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.
That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.
Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.
To get it, you must understand what it is.
The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.
Keep reading - learn your options!
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**#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential** -
Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---Build options, not plans!
We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).
The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex
Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!
Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.
Here's why.
In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.
A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.
The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.
That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.
Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.
To get it, you must understand what it is.
The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.
Keep reading - learn your options!
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**#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential** -
Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---Build options, not plans!
We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).
The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex
Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!
Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.
Here's why.
In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.
A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.
The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.
That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.
Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.
To get it, you must understand what it is.
The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.
Keep reading - learn your options!
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**#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential** -
Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---Build options, not plans!
We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).
The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex
Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!
Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.
Here's why.
In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.
A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.
The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.
That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.
Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.
To get it, you must understand what it is.
The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.
Keep reading - learn your options!
----
**#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential** -
Folks wanted cheaper egThrow out the roadmap. Build a portfolio of instant pivots instead.” - Futurist Jim Carroll
---
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.
---Build options, not plans!
We are on Day 19 of this series and have covered a lot of ground. We’ve established the necessary foundation: the future is terrifyingly fast (Day 16), your only defense is being (Day 17), and you must adopt an "antifragile" mindset to feed on the chaos (Day 18).
The question today is this: How do you plan when you can’t predict? Or when what you predict doesn't happen because something else does. Or a trend is too complex
Welcome to the idea of Optionality Architecture. Instead of building a plan, build a series of pivots, so that you are ready for whatever the hell happens!
Think about this idea. Planning is dead. Reacting with prebuilt plans is in.
Here's why.
In a linear world, the five-year plan was the gold standard. It was a single, rigid path based on the comforting (but false) assumption that the future would look mostly like the past. Strategy was about prediction and sticking to pre-determined plans.
A five-year plan today? Laughable! In an exponential world, a single, fixed plan is a strategic liability. The moment you commit to one path, a technology curve goes vertical, or a Black Swan event lands. The old strategy instantly becomes an anchor that guarantees you miss the shift.
The winning move is to stop worshipping the plan and start architecting the possible.
That's why the new principle you must master for 2026 and beyond is Optionality Architecture.
Beyond being a cool phrase that rolls off your tongue, it's a critical survival and success strategy you need to go forward.
To get it, you must understand what it is.
The most successful individuals and organizations in an exponential world don't just have options. They systematically construct portfolios of options.
Keep reading - learn your options!
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**#Optionality** **#Pivots** **#Portfolio** **#Flexibility** **#Adaptability** **#Diversification** **#Strategy** **#Career** **#Revenue** **#Exponential** -
3 veteran #FiannaFail TDs said the #FF party's #Aras25 review should be published “immediately”.
TDs Willie O’Dea, former Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl, and Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher signed a statement insisting that the party and Martin move swiftly and publish the long-awaited review, stating that the constant leaks and coverage of the report is damaging.
https://www.thejournal.ie/veteran-fianna-fail-tds-jim-gavin-fianna-fail-review-6904240-Dec2025/
The inquiry started 2.346 #JimGavins ago. (1 #JimGavin = 26 days)
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2.346 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FiannaFail started its inquiry into its #Aras25 presidential election disaster. Now #FF is struggling to keep a lid on rumours that the report blames both #JackChambers and Micheál Martin's chief of staff for covering up #JimGavin's dirty secret of ripping off a tenant.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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2.346 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FiannaFail started its inquiry into its #Aras25 presidential election disaster. Now #FF is struggling to keep a lid on rumours that the report blames both #JackChambers and Micheál Martin's chief of staff for covering up #JimGavin's dirty secret of ripping off a tenant.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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2.346 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FiannaFail started its inquiry into its #Aras25 presidential election disaster. Now #FF is struggling to keep a lid on rumours that the report blames both #JackChambers and Micheál Martin's chief of staff for covering up #JimGavin's dirty secret of ripping off a tenant.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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2.346 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FiannaFail started its inquiry into its #Aras25 presidential election disaster. Now #FF is struggling to keep a lid on rumours that the report blames both #JackChambers and Micheál Martin's chief of staff for covering up #JimGavin's dirty secret of ripping off a tenant.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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2.346 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FiannaFail started its inquiry into its #Aras25 presidential election disaster. Now #FF is struggling to keep a lid on rumours that the report blames both #JackChambers and Micheál Martin's chief of staff for covering up #JimGavin's dirty secret of ripping off a tenant.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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Fianna Fáil is openly bickering about its unpublished (possibly unfinished) report into #JimGavin's disastrous #Aras25 presidential election.
I dunno if the leaks/allegations are accurate. But after 5 months, #FiannaFail still can't sort this. It's a spectacular failure of party organisation.
2.308 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FF established this inquiry. The idea was to learn from events, and move on. Instead, it's spiralling downwards.
Archived full text: https://archive.is/yLHPJ
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Fianna Fáil is openly bickering about its unpublished (possibly unfinished) report into #JimGavin's disastrous #Aras25 presidential election.
I dunno if the leaks/allegations are accurate. But after 5 months, #FiannaFail still can't sort this. It's a spectacular failure of party organisation.
2.308 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FF established this inquiry. The idea was to learn from events, and move on. Instead, it's spiralling downwards.
Archived full text: https://archive.is/yLHPJ
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Fianna Fáil is openly bickering about its unpublished (possibly unfinished) report into #JimGavin's disastrous #Aras25 presidential election.
I dunno if the leaks/allegations are accurate. But after 5 months, #FiannaFail still can't sort this. It's a spectacular failure of party organisation.
2.308 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FF established this inquiry. The idea was to learn from events, and move on. Instead, it's spiralling downwards.
Archived full text: https://archive.is/yLHPJ
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Fianna Fáil is openly bickering about its unpublished (possibly unfinished) report into #JimGavin's disastrous #Aras25 presidential election.
I dunno if the leaks/allegations are accurate. But after 5 months, #FiannaFail still can't sort this. It's a spectacular failure of party organisation.
2.308 #JimGavins have elapsed since #FF established this inquiry. The idea was to learn from events, and move on. Instead, it's spiralling downwards.
Archived full text: https://archive.is/yLHPJ
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“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.
---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/
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It's Monday 15th December. #FiannaFail's #Aras25 inquiry into the #FF presidential election disaster has now lasted for 2.308 #JimGavins.
It is not expected to be completed until at least 3 #JimGavins have elapsed.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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It's Sunday 14th December. #FiannaFail's #Aras25 inquiry into the #FF presidential election disaster has now lasted for 2.269 #JimGavins.
It is not expected to be completed until at least 3 #JimGavins have passed.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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It's Saturday 13th December. #FiannaFail's #Aras25 inquiry into the #FF presidential election disaster has now lasted for 2.231 #JimGavins.
It is not expected to be completed until at least 3 #JimGavins have passed.
1 #JimGavin = 26 days. For an explanation of the numbers, see https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115665379516204101
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@janwwbosch you got the calculation right, but you expressesd it back to front.
1 #Scaramucci = 0.42307 #JimGavin
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Actually, I think there may be a wee glitch in @janwwbosch's calculations.
A #Scaramucci is 11 days. A #JimGavin is 26 days.
So 1 JimGavin = 2.3636363636 Scaramuccis