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https://www.europesays.com/ie/489174/ Another year over – but can Eurovision go on like this? #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #Israel #NowWhat #RTÉ #SplitScreen

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

The expiry of your relevance

The "soul-crushing" signal

The need for reinvention velocity

The "Sunday night" signal

Read about them in the full post.

And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

---
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

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#chunderroad #insects #NowWhat #colonoscopy

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6791639/
#chunderroad #insects #NowWhat #colonoscopy

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6791639/
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6791639/
#chunderroad #insects #NowWhat #colonoscopy

Canada's "we participated in the rituals" speech, decoded, by the most brilliant influencers I follow:

@arguablysomayaig: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTwlGEWgQhU/
@whyabodyandnot: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTwEaTLkl05/
@willz.talks: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTvCUR0AKoc/ (about china/canada)

#geopolitics #nowwhat

Who did Joe Biden pardon? Trump's AG Pam Bondi 'reviewing' former president's pardons - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-pardons-pam-bondi-trump-autopen-10952774

American politics and its democracy are broken, and it looks more and more like it is beyond repair...

Now what?

#usa #uspol #trump #democracy #fascism #nowwhat

When you pride yourself on your economic and business insights… and half the world starts to follow your lead…

The ignorance, the amateurism and above all the shamelessness in 3 screenshots.

#Argentina #Milei #Bailout #nowwhat

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/newsom-emergency-block-court-trump-military-los-angeles/

Wait, really?

#uspol #losangeles #nowwhat

Just tried to save in Blender with :w #fail #ThatHappened #keyboard_shortcuts #CheatSheet #RIP #HawkTuah #JustProtogenThings #idkimgay #modaleditor #RTFM #3DSky #nerd #NightOwls #OpenSource #StayHydrated #FuckTrump #ColemakDH #projectorganization #PosturePreposterousness #NowWhat #desktop_computer

Just tried to save in Blender with :w #fail #ThatHappened #keyboard_shortcuts #CheatSheet #RIP #HawkTuah #JustProtogenThings #idkimgay #modaleditor #RTFM #3DSky #nerd #NightOwls #OpenSource #StayHydrated #FuckTrump #ColemakDH #projectorganization #PosturePreposterousness #NowWhat #desktop_computer

Just tried to save in Blender with :w #fail #ThatHappened #keyboard_shortcuts #CheatSheet #RIP #HawkTuah #JustProtogenThings #idkimgay #modaleditor #RTFM #3DSky #nerd #NightOwls #OpenSource #StayHydrated #FuckTrump #ColemakDH #projectorganization #PosturePreposterousness #NowWhat #desktop_computer

Just tried to save in Blender with :w #fail #ThatHappened #keyboard_shortcuts #CheatSheet #RIP #HawkTuah #JustProtogenThings #idkimgay #modaleditor #RTFM #3DSky #nerd #NightOwls #OpenSource #StayHydrated #FuckTrump #ColemakDH #projectorganization #PosturePreposterousness #NowWhat #desktop_computer

Just tried to save in Blender with :w #fail #ThatHappened #keyboard_shortcuts #CheatSheet #RIP #HawkTuah #JustProtogenThings #idkimgay #modaleditor #RTFM #3DSky #nerd #NightOwls #OpenSource #StayHydrated #FuckTrump #ColemakDH #projectorganization #PosturePreposterousness #NowWhat #desktop_computer

I received an #Email from #WhoGlocal that informed me that I am now "listed" as a #Public #Figure. Does #Anyone know what that's about? Is that #Legit? Besides, #NowWhat?

#NowWhat

What you can’t see is the stairs block one of the light switches for the loft. Sigh. #CabinLife #NowWhat 2/2

Apparently if I kept my Twitter account, it would be 15 years old today.

#SocialMedia #Twitter #NowWhat

"The movie came out in 1973, around the same time when scientists at major universities were compiling data and designing models that predicted our imminent doom. One study by MIT indicated that collapse would happen in the 2040s without major changes to our consumption habits and fossil fuels. They concluded that the 2100s would see a return to the early 1900s in terms of population and available resources.

… If anything, it's coming early."

#nowWhat 🙀

@chad https://mstdn.ca/@chad/111062429592062631

Blender Day 5
...
#animation #blender #summerproject #nowwhat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAguqzh3S8A

...i broke my git.

running `git commit` with staged changes... just... returns me to my cmdline prompt. #work #nowWhat

@paulkater Living is deadly, the more you do it the sooner you die… #nowwhat? 🥳 🤭

Fun with Propeller: on a whim last night, I found https://github.com/jacgoudsmit/P1V and tweaked the Arty support for the Arty S7 I have (mostly switching LEDs around). Almost effortlessly I have cogledtest.spin running on my new "Propeller 1" https://photos.app.goo.gl/aaLu3TXWp6bSDGzM9 #Parallax #Propeller1 #NowWhat

@tealeg and I use both....

#nowwhat

#Comics #CaptainAmerica #NowWhat

Caught a mouse in the house! With my bare hands. Pretty cute.
#nowwhat?
#ourcatisuseless

My son is in art school. This afternoon he asked #ChatGPT to write a short scholarly essay about the challenges and opportunities of legalizing street art. The result was impressive. The boy ran it through Grammarly to check for plagiarism; it came up clean. #AI #NowWhat

“Tell the class your name, and a little bit about you.”

Hi. I’m Devin.

I’m a video editor, voice actor, streaming producer, and creative consultant. I used to be a lot more than that, but the last year has been one of chaotic upheaval for me. I’m working on figuring out who I am now, and it’s a messy process.

I’ll likely keep doing what I’ve always done: intersperse posts of what I find cool and/or noteworthy with raw looks at my “rebuilding” process.

#Introduction #HelloMastodon #NowWhat

#ThrowbackThursday to 2008 when I was super excited to be featured in TWO local #Vancouver newspapers about being a Twitter user 😅 #NowWhat

Needed to change my graphics drivers from #nouveau to #nvidia for an application. Man, that closed driver is a lot faster than nouveau. Feels like I have a fresh laptop.

#nowwhat