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title: "The 26 Principles, Revisited — #8: Velocity Alignment — 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 — #8: Velocity Alignment — 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.*

*The greatest risk today isn’t the speed of change: it’s your failure to pick up your pace.*

![](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2026-8VelocityAlignment.jpg)

Day 8’s argument: speed used to be a differentiator; now it’s the baseline requirement for existing at all. Five-year roadmaps were already a joke by the time I wrote this.

Since then, the external clock kept accelerating — the same five-frontier-model-releases-in-five-weeks I mentioned back in Principle #1 is a Velocity Alignment story just as much as a Temporal Literacy one. Organizations still running annual planning cycles aren’t just falling behind once anymore. They’re getting lapped multiple times inside a single planning cycle.

**Verdict: Nailed it — the baseline moved up again, right on schedule.**

*Next up: Principle #9, Aim Higher — revisited.*