# The 26 Principles, Revisited — #20: Network Velocity — 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. If you are the fastest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Day 20’s discipline: deliberately surround yourself with people and networks faster than you, rather than comfortable ones slower than you — because comfort caps your own velocity. Nothing about this year changed the logic, it just raised the stakes: with AI-fluent talent and communities moving as fast as they are in 2026, the cost of staying in a comfortable, slower room compounds faster than it used to. The gap between the fastest rooms and the average one is wider now than it was nine months ago. Verdict: Held up, and the gap got wider. Next up: Principle #21, Signal Intelligence — revisited.

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/10/the-26-principles-revisited-20-network-velocity-what-i-said-and-whats-actually-happening/