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title: "The 26 Principles, Revisited — #7: Relentless Reinvention — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening"
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updated: 2026-09-22T17:06:40+00:00
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# The 26 Principles, Revisited — #7: Relentless Reinvention — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening

*Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted.*

*Remember – in an exponential world, the static become extinct.*

![](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2026-7StaticExtinct.png)

Day 7 was the hardest emotional discipline in the series: knowing when to abandon a strategy, a role, or an identity that the world has already moved past — and doing it before the market forces your hand.

This one stopped being theoretical fast. Current 2026 forecasts put roughly 40% of the enterprise AI projects launched in 2024–2025 on track to be defunded by year end for failing to show ROI, and some analysts expect at least a few Fortune 500 CEOs to lose their jobs over AI failures their own organizations can’t explain or reproduce. That’s “the static become extinct,” happening at board level.

**Verdict: Confirmed, the hard way — reinvention isn’t punditry anymore, it’s a survival skill with real casualties.**

*Next up: Principle #8, Velocity Alignment — revisited.*