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   Jacqueline (burnoutqueen@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 12:57:10 JST Jacqueline

   @evan

   There is a whole article about it.

   As of 2025, AI is 4% of energy usage

   https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 19:25:50 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   “You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.

   Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.

   Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.

   I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.

   But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.

   Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.

   As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.

   So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:

   The expiry of your relevance

   The "soul-crushing" signal

   The need for reinvention velocity

   The "Sunday night" signal

   Read about them in the full post.

   And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.

   Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.

   You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."

   Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!

   **#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-28-you-should-never-wait-for-the-world-to-catch-up-to-your-obsolescence/

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:18:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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   Teaching students to critically evaluate technology and its uses (including but not limited to LLMs) is a Good Thing Actually™ in my book. If this initiative weren’t stuffed full of OpenAI + Google + Microsoft money, I’d be a lot warmer to it.

   As it stands, I’m placing my bet on “following the money tells you how this story will end.”

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 19:27:06 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Make difficult decisions sooner. (Even when you don't want to)" - Futurist Jim Carroll

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
   --

   At one moment in time, I had Google Claude analyze the thousands of blog posts I've written since 2002, to try to come up with a list of the unique phrases I've come up with through the years. It came back with a massive list. and called them "Jim'isms." I'm pretty proud of the list, since these phrases often capture the essence of the ideas I share with my clients and readers.

   The one I am proudest of is probably the one with which you are most familiar: "aggressive indecision." I coined it back in 2002 to describe the tendency among my clients to make the tough decisions that need to be made, particularly when uncertainty reigns.

   And it led me to believe that the most dangerous words in any business or life are, "Let's wait and see."

   When we wait, we fail. We might tell ourselves we are being prudent, being cautious, but usually, we are just being hesitant. In my 36-year voyage, I’ve learned that the difficulty of a decision doesn’t decrease with time: it only compounds. To stay ahead of the curve, you must learn to make difficult decisions sooner, especially when you don't want to.

   Every successful pivot I’ve made in my career and business required me to cut ties with something comfortable but declining. Whether it was walking away from a stable career path or sunsetting a keynote topic that was still "doing okay," the hardest part identify8ing what I needed to do. It involved actually doing it.

   As humans, we are engineered, it seems, to avoid the tough decisions. And yet often, that's the only way to get ahead!

   The simple fact is this: if you wait until you are forced to make a decision, you aren't pivoting; you’re reacting.

   Making decisions sooner -m even when you don't want to - is the antidote to aggressive indecision. Most organizations and people stay stuck because they treat difficult choices like a burden to be avoided rather than a strategic advantage to be seized. By making the tough call early, when you still have resources and momentum, you control the future to the extent you can. If you wait until your hand is forced, the market (or the crisis) controls you.

   Don't let the weight of a difficult choice paralyze you.

   Make the call.

   Futurist Jim Carroll believes that 'aggressive indecision' is the root cause of most failure.

   **#Decisions** **#AggressiveIndecision** **#Action** **#Courage** **#Sooner** **#Pivot** **#Leadership** **#Waiting** **#Momentum** **#Jimisms** **#Strategy** **#Tough** **#Paralysis** **#Control** **#Future** **#Freelance**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-14-make-difficult-decisions-sooner-even-when-you-dont-want-to/

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   🫧 socialcoding.. (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 05:34:49 JST 🫧 socialcoding..

   in reply to

   @silverpill

   There are a couple of #ActivityPub projects that focus on providing the good tools that abstract away the complexities of wire-level network comms, and help free the hands of a solution developer to focus more directly on what people need, instead of on plumbing and Babylonian speech confusion of how things fit together. I try to emphasize these projects, e.g. @fedify by listing them higher in the https://delightful.coding.social curated lists.

   But their challenge is to offer a kind of reverse to browser quirks mode. Web browsers can handle about any malformed HTML a person throws at it, and still manage to turn that into machine processable form, and make the most of it.

   As a fedi toolkit builder you almost need to do the opposite. Focus on offering comprehensive and intuitive API's and functionality to solution developers, and translate it into wire chaos that constitutes the fediverse-protocol-of-the-day.

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   Farhad (faab64@freefree.ps)'s status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2026 00:41:50 JST Farhad

   German Chancellor #Merz:

   - Our appeal is first and foremost directed at Iran and its Mullah regime to end the war.

   - The responsibility for this lies first and foremost with the regime in Tehran.

   - We are not a party to the war against Iran and we have no intention of joining it.

   As if I needed any more reason to despise this sack of shit, he comes up with something even more outrageous than before

   #Germanty #WarOnIran #Politics #EUpol #WarMonger #Nazi #WarOfAggression #EpsteinWar #Israel