# The 26 Principles, Revisited — #13: Wisdom Inversion — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening
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Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Know when to get your age out of the way. Day 13’s idea: seniority and tenure, once automatic sources of authority, can become a liability when the newest, least-experienced person in the room has the clearest read on a fast-moving tool or trend. Nothing has reversed that dynamic this year — if anything, the people most fluent in agentic AI workflows and prompt-native thinking in 2026 skew younger and less credentialed, not more. The organizations getting real value out of AI are disproportionately the ones willing to let that expertise lead, regardless of who holds the title. Verdict: Held up — the inversion is still running the right direction. Next up: Principle #14, Hype Immunity — revisited.

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/10/the-26-principles-revisited-13-wisdom-inversion-what-i-said-and-whats-actually-happening/