Go and make mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Breach rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Bad. Art."
Neil Gaiman
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Stuff breaks all the time. We need to remember this and keep one thing in mind. It's the repair that's important.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2014/06/stuff-breaks-all-the-time
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1958-07), “Hand Me My Dark Glasses,” McCall’s Magazine
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I make mistakes -- I'll be the second to admit it. Collected in her The Snake Has All the Lines (1960) as "I Was a Sand Crab." The original in McCall's has what I suspect is an incorrect "correction" from an editor, reading "I'll be the first to admit it,"…
"Your flaws are your most important assets." - 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.
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We're all talking about the importance of authenticity in an era of artificiality.
After all, in 2026, AI can generate almost anything. A photorealistic headshot of a CEO who doesn't exist. A polished podcast in your voice, on a topic you've never thought about, in under five minutes. A speaker highlight reel with fake audiences and fake standing ovations. Perfection has become cheap, instant, and infinite.
Here's the paradox of this new era: when perfection is everywhere, perfection stops counting. When everyone can be perfect, being perfect doesn't matter anymore.
What stands out now is the opposite. The stumble, the scar, the story too weird to be invented, the detail too specific to be faked, the mistake too painful to be generated. In a world full of synthetic perfection, your flaws are the only authentication signal that proves you are real. It might become the most important signal for your future success.
And in that context, I must confess: I didn't know I had been operating on this principle for most of my career! For 36 years, I've quietly leaned on my flaws without naming them as assets. It was just how I operated. Now, when everyone is talking about AI, I can see how important my flaws are.
An example? In 1995, I appeared on a VHS tape called The Family Guide to the Internet, presented by IBM. I billed myself as a "Global Internet Consultant" and walked a fictional family through the wonders of newsgroups and proper Internet etiquette. It is, hands down, the most embarrassing thing I have ever done. It still exists on YouTube. And get this - I often tell people about it and send them the link. Most people would have buried it, but don't try to hide from it. It's proof that I was actually there, in the room, at the moment the future was being figured out.
While not as interesting, there have been many other stumbles, errors, and foibles along the way.
So tell the embarrassing story. Quote the bad review. List the failed venture. Publish the rejected pitch. Show the wreckage.
Let the cracks show.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is proud of his flaws and mistakes.
**#Flaws** **#Assets** **#Authenticity** **#Imperfection** **#Scars**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-32-your-flaws-are-your-most-important-assets/
#Truth Collectively wins better for us all as a % of Truth together (if truth is done together).
Your Truth can #change and is assumed to improve and reveal the onion layers of usual (mis)understanding and we get better at seeing examples / expressing / doing it all / #encouraging others to use logic mainly but also more human #empathy #learning #circles #examples of #individuality / #imperfection.
Seems hard but accepting we're unique is powerful if done acceptingly together and more often.
Have you noticed that the advice on the internet rarely leans into imperfection. Very few people are writing tutorials about...
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Coucou les Pétassous ! 😘
Réflexion matinale, en voyant des messages sur le Fediverse contenant des images de nus masculins. J'utilise volontairement le terme “image” et non “photo” car il y a de plus en plus de créations par I.A. parmi elles. Ça se sent (pas toujours) dans les éclairages et les physiques trop parfaits. Dans la répétitivité du type d'éclairage ou de traits. Bref ! Un style très générique. Et c'est là que je me dis qu'on va peut-être enfin casser les stéréotypes de beauté actuels.
Je crois qu'à moyen / long terme nous allons nous mettre à rechercher l'imperfection, la singularité propre au réel. Que ce soit dans le physique des sujets photographiés ou dans les techniques utilisées pour photographier qui seront moins parfaites, plus amateures. Bien sûr, les I.A. apprendront de ces créations avec imperfections, mais il y aura un décalage entre le moment où elles commenceront à apprendre à créer de l'imperfection crédible (pas comme les images avec des problèmes de mains à 6 doigts, par exemple) et à ne pas produire des images génériques (ce qu'elles font beaucoup, mais ça, c'est parce qu'elles ont appris des humains qui s'imitent, comme les graphistes responsables des affiches de cinéma).
💋💋💋 Bisous avec la bouche du zizi 💗(™ Doully) !
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York American
More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/601…
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I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a…
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Don't believe those who tell you personal change is easy. It's a miracle when personal change occurs. But it can happen!
#FacilitatingChange #NotEasy #effort #preparation #imperfection #trap
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