# The 26 Principles, Revisited — #21: Signal Intelligence — 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. Your new challenge isn't finding the insight – it's filtering out the noise. Day 21 flipped the old information problem on its head: the scarce resource isn’t insight anymore, it’s the discipline to filter out the flood of noise burying it. That flood got measurably worse in 2026. AI-generated content — text, images, video — now saturates every feed at a volume that didn’t exist when I wrote this, and separating genuine signal from synthetic filler has become a daily, deliberate skill rather than a background habit. Verdict: Nailed it — the noise got louder exactly as predicted. Next up: Principle #22, Boundary Divergence — revisited.

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Source: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/10/the-26-principles-revisited-21-signal-intelligence-what-i-said-and-whats-actually-happening/