“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
Summer June 2019
“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “You’re really tuning up your process of self-creation. It’s time to practice believing in a version that’s a bit grander.” Sagittarius
What’s been going on? I just finished copying over my highlights from the Kindle version of “The Art of Memoir” by Mary Karr.
Welcome to Day 54 of My 1-Year Experiment for June 23rd. Here’s what appeals to me, her description of life-story writers like me:
“… a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.”
“(A) memoir uses novelistic devices like cobbling together dialogue you failed to record at the time.”
“A fierce urge to try re-experiencing your own mind and body and throbbing heart alive inside the most vivid stories from your past is step one.”
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “You’re really tuning up your process of self-creation. It’s time to practice believing in a version that’s a bit grander.” Sagittarius
I’m pretty sure I’ve already stipulated that I’m a fan of Steve Jobs, mostly for his brand of disruptive innovation — creating new rules for an older industry. His Holiday Tau reminds me of a quote, I believe came from Joel Barker originally:
“Mastering new rules is like trying to cross a white-water river. If you can anticipate the whirlpools and the changes in the current, if you can anticipate the landing on the other shore, you have a much better chance of getting across that river successfully.”
“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “What you’re standing in looks a lot like the river from yesterday and can be maneuvered as such.” Pisces
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Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate