Month: November 2021

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S1 E107 — How Do You Rate Your Sense of Curiosity?

This is a test, a test within an experiment.  Shouldn’t our fortunes soar over the next month?  I wonder if we’ll receive higher quality predictions for success or at least significantly more positive, inspirational and motivational admonitions?

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Once you recognize the rewards you get from bad habits, you can find other ways of reaching that end.” Scorpio

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 107 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 24th day of October in the fall of 2019.

And, this took me by surprise — “Scorpio Time” — the Holiday Tau for Zahn, Henry Winkler (I know he’s not a Steve), Emma the Baroness (not a Steve) and me (a Steve) during a time frame when our birthdays connect us.  

On this Day One of Scorpio Time — 10/24 to 11/21, what gifts or surprises come our way? 

This is new discovery for me. 

You’d think I’d be more observant, having gotten this far without noticing it:

Today’s Holiday Birthday: 

The older you get, the younger your mind becomes as your sense of curiosity keeps the inspiration flowing through the solar year.  Your need to explore is as real as your need for food, and you’ll find a way to adventure wondrously

Should I rank it?  How? 

It’s the only one for the day so I can’t compare it to something else yet.

Moving on.

Before I test the relevance of today’s Holiday Tau, I’ll bring you up to speed a little and describe what I’ve been working on earlier in the week leading up to today, Thursday.

Spending roughly three hours on Monday I conducted a little background research about Horoscopes — answering the “why” question for me.

What You Might Find by Reading Your Horoscope 

Sayings — advice, wisdom

Creativity; choice; disruption; success; travel; spirit; serendipity; talents; unconsciousness; distractions; flow; messy; challenge; action; discipline; life events; assimilate faith; efficiency; generations; uniqueness; mediums of expression;

Priority; future; followers; ponder; now; solitude; inspiration; life story; possibilities; unknown; intuition; research

When do they come into play, these sayings giving advice and passing on wisdom?  

Let’s see for today.

So our Holiday TauBit is a little bit success, distraction, discipline, but not rock and roll.

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Once you recognize the rewards you get from bad habits, you can find other ways of reaching that end.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

What about WW&C’s?  Maybe a little life story and messy possibilities?  Hmm. Certainly not worth swiping today.

“3”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Having a thing is different from achieving it.  You will most enjoy the processes you’ve anticipated.” Taurus

For one of our favorite Steves — inspiration, future, challenge, and what, success?

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “You’re better off assuming that you can improve the world than believing you can’t.  You’ll only find out what you can do after you’ve made your move.” Sagittarius

Harvey’s seems more like a piece of wisdom and making the most of a life event. Maybe learning the most from a disruption.  Even a form of messy inspirations.

“4”  Steve Harvey, 62: “You’ll be waving goodbye to an unwanted burden soon enough, so you may as well make the most of its presence.  There are gifts inside even the most inconvenient facts of life.” Capricorn

How about Nash’s Holiday TauBit?  Sprinkle some creativity and talent with uniqueness and serendipity.

“4”  Steve Nash, 45: “Keep some novelty in the back of the closet so you can bring it out to dazzling effects when no one is expecting it.” Aquarius

Well, for Jobs right up front we’re talking success, with creativity and unconsciousness.

“3”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “Outsiders assume success depends on factors that may not have anything to do with it.  Drop your previous notions and get in deeper.  It’s different on the inside.” Pisces

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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S1 E106 — Attempts to Upset 9 of My Life Stages Apple Cart

I didn’t escape the weekend without whining (or wining) about the fallout from Apple’s upgrade to a new OS version and a scramble to pull out everything I can from the graphic layout which helps me move concepts around like they were on Post-it Notes.  

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “This day has potential to count big-time toward your goal.  How are you monitoring your progress?” Scorpio

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 106 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 20th day of October in the fall of 2019.

I completed the first pass of “Volume Two Manuscript” about Work,  but confronted all the unlinked and disconnected screens associated with “Volume Three Manuscript.”

This one is part memoir, part legacy, part stories about facing challenges over the course of a decade only to master them and then in the next decade run into a different set of challenges.  

If done right it should synch with life stages introduced as missing chapters from the Volume One Manuscript, “The Knowledge Path: Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest. Leave a Legacy” I published in my Knowledge Banking website.

Life Stages:

Part One:  She’s Leaving Home, Not Living Alone (Buy Buy)

Part Two:  Failing at Growing Up

Part Three:  Love, Marriage, Baby Carriage, or …

Part Four:  Crisis and Pivots for 28 -32 Year Olds

Part Five:  Making It – Ages 30 – 38

Part Six:  Authenticity Crisis for 35 – 45 Year Olds

Part Seven:  Renewal or Resignation in Your Mid-40s

Part Eight: 55 Year Olds- Millennials and Empty Nests

Part Nine: 65+ Years Old: Maturity, Integrity and Wisdom

Funny you should ask.  I find myself so lost in the creative process I lose track of time.  If I didn’t track what I’ve been working on each day in my “Weekly Time Blocks” I wouldn’t know if I was making progress.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “This day has potential to count big-time toward your goal.  How are you monitoring your progress?” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Sorry, Steve but I consider your Holiday Tau just one degree above a throw away TauBit of Wisdom.

“2”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Do you have control over the outcome? If not, it’s not your problem.” Aries

Seems pretty esoteric, maybe too much.  What are we saying here, Steve?

“2”  Steve Smith, 30: “Your priorities are different than in recent times.  A larger shift is coming.” Gemini

Usually CC&W’s Holiday Tau means more to me than this one.  Sorry guys.

“2”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “It’s better to do little and promise nothing than to get mixed up in something that will make next week stressful.” Leo

Ok, but then what is the second rule to self-control, Coach Kerr?

“2”  Steve Kerr, 54: “The first rule to improving self-control is removing temptation.” Libra

I have to say the Holiday Tau for all the Steves, except for Zahn rate below par today.

“3”  Steve Harvey, 62: “Seems you’ll have to break some norms to do what you want to do.” Capricorn

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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S3 E2 — Preview of the New Post Pandemic Season

It reminded me of living life as an artist, synchronicity, and getting a break — all from the intuitive, inspirational side of living — when it is dark, and you dream and your self-defeating thoughts keep you awake.

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

“5”  Steve Nash, 45: “You don’t have to explain everything you do, not even to yourself. In fact, today, explaining would only slow you down, diminish the mystery and put a damper on the magic.”  Aquarius

I may have heard the phrase “inner life” from a podcast.

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 2 in Season 3 of  “TauBits for the Taking” on this 27th day of February in the winter of 2021 — which is a three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic year and then in the pandemic year, and now months after.

Evidence

It reminded me of living life as an artist, synchronicity, and getting a break — all from the intuitive, inspirational side of living — when it is dark, and you dream and your self-defeating thoughts keep you awake. 

How do you face the day?  

Do you avoid and procrastinate or meet your challenges head on? 

Following instincts?  

We’re all animals basically.  

What’s driving us? 

From a spiritual center? 

Are there laws we don’t yet understand?  

What about coincidences? 

What about intuition and hunches?

You could say Zahn’s Holiday Tau fit perfectly as did each of the other three Steves into my theme of the day.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “When they ask you why you made X choice instead of Y choice, you may not have a great line of reasoning to impart. Suffice it to say, much comes to you by way of human instinct.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

So, today so not my birthday, but I can definitely use it.  This is coming to you in Pages by Apple.  I chose it because it can convert into a book format.  Trust me, I’m confused.  Should I select a book template that I haven’t tried before?  Or, should I revert back to what I chose for “The Knowledge Labs” series?  Either way my passion extinguished.  

Today’s Holiday Birthday. 

You’ll realize how you were holding on for dear life to something that’s not even buoyant. A new perspective will have you dropping the thing that makes you work so hard to stay afloat (both emotionally and fiscally) in favor of a truly light and protective entity that will make your journey a pleasure.

Given that I just stole someone else’s birthday, I should only consider what’s rightfully mine, Emma the Baroness’, Henry Winkler’s and Steve Zahn’s.  I’m rating it high for silliness and counter-productivity states.

“5”  Steve Howey, 42: “Even driven people don’t get after it at top speed through the whole journey. Comfort, sleep, inactivity, silliness and even counter-productivity are all states that have a place in the cycle of growth and attainment.” Cancer

Just the other day I curated an article for my digital magazine, “San Francisco Region” about Lawrence Ferlinghetti who died after reaching 101 years old. I was taken with his quote about San Francisco and the community that grew around “City Lights” as a founder and co-owner: “’

You could come here and start anything you wanted.’ But in recent years he said it had become ‘an artistic theme park without artists.’” Isn’t if fitting that the Holiday Tau for the coach of the Golden State Warriors might reflect Ferlinghetti’s art of poetry and living life “out there” not in books.

“5”  Steve Kerr, 54: “As for the art of loving and the art of being alone, both curriculums exist in the same Fine Arts Building at the University of Life. They are sister programs in the interdisciplinary track.” Libra

Enough said, right Nash? There comes a time when you just have get with the flow and react to the situation in play.

“5”  Steve Nash, 45: “You don’t have to explain everything you do, not even to yourself. In fact, today, explaining would only slow you down, diminish the mystery and put a damper on the magic.”  Aquarius

What’s Going On …

Shifting Opportunities

Smart Moves 

Long-Form

    • “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History” by Kurt Andersen Both of us, Emma the Baroness and I, have been processing the acquittal of our ex-President — not really being surprised by the “Big Lie” promoting followers in the Senate, but more disappointed after seeing new video documentation of the insurrection and detailed evidence time lines.  I return to Kurt Andersen’s book “Fantasyland” to help me through the process of filtering the unfolding events.

Progress and Procrastination

    • Procrastination — Lost a full day replacing my 2000 Toyota 4-Runner with a leased Honda CR-V

Working on the Business

    • Today 1342 Flipboard users follow one or more of my 35 digital magazines.

Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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Previous: S3 E1 — Preview Day One in Season Three of the New Abnormality; 

Related: S2 E2 — New Season Preview: Rippling Effects, Implications and Consequences We Didn’t See Coming; S2 E1 — Sneak Preview Asking “How Toxic is Your Work Life?” ; S1 E2 — Day 2 of My 1-Year Experiment ; S1 E1 — Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

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S2 E6 — No We Don’t Share Your Precious Little Frickin’ Data

Maybe we can shift suppliers and bring you lime-scented messages at a lower cost without having to abandon our unwavering commitment to virtual bottles instead of using harbor and ocean-clogging plastic. Hmm … ?

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You need to keep some in the reserve today.  Hold back because your expenditures, mostly emotionally speaking, will be a little more intense than anticipated.” Scorpio

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Friday’s Episode 6 of the Second Season,  My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 6th in the spring of 2020 here in California.

Having almost figured out my publishing options on the Patreon Platform I managed to post my fourth essay, Keeping It Fresh in the Message Bottling Lab and the first in March. I’m working on a companion piece:

Do we share your data without you knowing it?  Look, this is literally a manual operation. 

It’s low tech.  

Living this far out of the main stream and at a great distance from fashion currents we have to hump our way all the way down to the sea to collect your returnables. 

And then hike all the way back up to the labs, grab the next set of virtual bottles and toss them off the coastal cliffs far enough out to catch the slipstream hoping the tide will deliver them to you. 

All day long we have to huff and puff down and back up to the lab. 

Like I said it’s a manual operation.  And, yes it’s true several key pages from the manual blow away from time to time if we leave the glass stained windows open like we did just last week.  

So, no we don’t share your precious little frickin’ data with anyone else. It’s our policy. We stand by it. And, we literally don’t know how.

This week’s normally hidden rippling effects surfaced as viral fears gripped citizens. 

      • Fewer cruise ship tourists enjoyed the added bonus of two weeks at sea.  We here at the labs noticed a slight dip in the availability of virtual glass bottles from our suppliers. 
      • While Costco members rammed each other like shopping-cart pirates, Seth Meyers reported that out of growing panic the sales of Corona long necks dropped in demand.  
      • We noticed the falling out-of-favor trends weeks and months ago outback, but chalked it up to shifting Millennial demand for Pacifico.  

Is there an opportunity here we should pounce on, literally?  

Maybe we can shift suppliers and bring you lime-scented messages at a lower cost without having to abandon our unwavering commitment from virtual glass instead of literal harbor and ocean-clogging plastic. Hmm …?

Can we find lime-scented Holiday Tau for Steves today?

Hmm… Steve I don’t quite get what our TauBit of Wisdom is supposed to mean for today, do you?

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You need to keep some in the reserve today.  Hold back because your expenditures, mostly emotionally speaking, will be a little more intense than anticipated.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Is this an ad for solar energy?  Who wouldn’t want a long-term project conclude lucratively?

Today’s Holiday Birthday: “You’ll savor the long stretch of peace that comes at the top of this solar return.  Serene moments will be shared with a tight group.  A long-term project will end lucratively.  There’s a fair exchange that leads to something much more interesting, and as you apply your talent, business keeps favoring you.”

And, what does our Patron Saint have to add to our Holiday Tau? Sure, but which other compensation forms are you referencing?

“3”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “It may help your attitude to consider that there may be other forms of compensation in play that cannot be tallied at this time.”  Aries

Does Smithy have the answer?

“3”  Steve Smith, 30: “The question of doing things for love vs. money will come up.” Gemini

Now, Howey why is it that I chose to include your Holiday Tau?

“3”  Steve Howey, 42: “Getting out of a rut will be a matter of leverage and different sorts of movement.”  Cancer

But, what if after you do all that coach you write a book about it?

“4”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Get the experience — the face-to-face, sweat-on-the-pavement experience.  There’s no story, movie, class or book that could teach you the same thing.” Libra

What’s Going On …

Shifting Opportunities 

Smart Moves

Long-Form

    • “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 5-Hundred Year History” by Kurt Andersen

Working on the Business

    • 1,337  Flipboard users follow one or more of my 35 digital magazines. 
    • Who is my target audience at Patreon?  
      1. Introverted creators who are the overeducated and the underpaid; everyone from underpaid musicians to out-of-work PhDs;  
      2. who shop at Trader Joe’s (or wish they could); 
      3. who have more sophisticated and diverse tastes in food and drink.“ 
      4. find elements of the lifestyle they aspired to for not too much money, 
      5. within the reality of a schoolteacher’s salary that 
      6. offered glimpses into a much more affluent lifestyle. 
      7. marriage of Consumer Reports and Mad magazine. 
      8. a chatty rundown on new, seasonal and offbeat offerings

Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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Previous:  S2 E5 — Second Season Sneak Preview: My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment; S2 E4 — Sneak Preview: Day 4 of My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment; S2 E3 — Day 3 of My Pandemic Year Experiment;  S2 E2 — New Season Preview:  Rippling Effects, Implications and Consequences We Didn’t See Coming;  S2 E1 — Sneak Preview Asking “How Toxic is Your Work Life?”

Related:  S1 E6 — Day 6 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E5 — Day 5 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E4 — Day 4 of My 1-Year Experiment;  S1 E3 — Day 3 of My 1-Year Experiment;   S1 E2 — Day 2 of My 1-Year Experiment;  S1 E1 – Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

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S1 E105 — Will Fortune Smile on Us Later in the Evening?

I hated what Apple put me through this last week. But my work around is holding up, and this is Saturday night so why don’t Emma the Baroness and I give it a try to see if fortune smiles upon us later this evening.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Signmate Henry Winkler recently claimed the qualities of tenacity and gratitude as his guiding values. Should you do the same, fortune will favor you this evening.” Scorpio

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 105 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 19th day of October in the fall of 2019.

It took me until 3pm just to finish the rescue work I started three long days ago when Apple decided to no longer support the software and documents critical to my manuscript.  

      • Triage began on Sunday when I had no clue what to do at first. 
      • On Thursday, when I assessed the pending damage I realized the original Inspiration’s interlinked files contained broken and neglected links to add insult to injury. 
      • I painstakingly scrubbed connections throughout the entire manuscript’s research, but focused mainly on “16 MBTI Equivalents” separated into Extroverts (Outies) and Introverts (Innies). 
      • I finished off a long day yesterday  by reconnecting broken linkages between 8 MBTI Introverted Temperaments  to my 8 Talent Profiles.  

And this is Saturday, WTF?  I’m running on fumes.

I’m close to making my linkages whole, that I can’t stop now.  Which brings me to back I to my original research and a decade of field testing.  

Basically you can organize four Organization Types by their four Internal Talent Profiles found in each that when taken together define a unique talent culture distinct from the other three. 

Why should you care?

You’ll either be attracted to or repelled by one of the four talent cultures.

Odds are if one Organization Type attracts you, then you’ll enjoy working there and find it easier to succeed.

And, you can define which stages of growth will be a best fit or worst fit for you:

Organization Types: 

            • Paradoxy-Morons; 
            • Emerging-Entrepreneurs; 
            • Sustaining-Associates and 
            • Systematic-Professionals

Stages of Growth: 

            • Start Up; 
            • Emerging Growth; 
            • Rapid Growth; 
            • Sustained Growth;
            • Maturity; 
            • Decline and 
            • Reinvention

Well, this is Saturday night so why don’t Emma the Baroness and I give it a try to see if fortune smiles upon us later this evening.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Signmate Henry Winkler recently claimed the qualities of tenacity and gratitude as his guiding values. Should you do the same, fortune will favor you this evening.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Wait  WW&C’s may be useful in the working on the business promotional and pricing strategies?

“4”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “The only difference between repeating actions in exchange for money or for free is money provides an external motivation and free cultivates an internal one.” Taurus

Wait, similar Holiday Tau, but was it for Smith?

“3”  Steve Smith, 30: “The best way to gain a skill is to jump in and figure it out, expecting to mess up a fair amount and learn as you go.  Don’t buy the class, just begin the task.” Gemini

That’s me, baby. I’m feeling totally free.

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “If you can spend two-thirds of your day doing what you please, you’re among the truly free.” Sagittarius

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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S1 E104 — How Yesterday’s Success Triggers Tomorrow’s Failure

First, realize which stage you’re in and which is next.  Identify the new and opposite set of key success factors. Figure out how to close the gaping chasm and how to navigate the transformation required for a bumpy landing into the next growth stage.

“5”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Once you see a problem from the top, you’ll know how to solve it.  But you have to go back down and solve it on the ground.” Taurus

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Happy TGIF! Hi and welcome to Friday’s Episode 104 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 18th day of October in the fall of 2019.

I’m sure I won’t be done with my file-saving averted disaster recovery. But it  triggered my “return” to my “Volume Two Manuscript” covering the world of work as an employee, operating as an internal consultant within your organization or understanding what your decision-maker wants and needs when you are a consultant or executive advisor. 

The recovery work will carry on at least through this weekend.

Why is this “work” important?  Over the years I discovered that if you can measure 14 key success factors operating throughout stages of growth and decline, but which shift 180 degrees away from what brought success in the your current stage, then you’ve created a leadership advantage for yourself. 

If your organization continues unchanged, the reversing success factors will trigger failure during the transitions from Start Up to Growth, to Maturity, into Decline and Reinvention.

What Can You Do?

      • First, realize which stage you’re in and which is next. 
      • Identify the new and opposite set of key success factors.
      • Figure out how to close the gaping chasm and how to navigate the transformation required for a bumpy landing into the next growth stage. 
      • If you do you may not only survive in your assignment, but your leadership style will make you a hero or heroine in the eyes of your stakeholders.

Today, I recovered in depth descriptions from my original research and decade of testing focusing on which stages of early organizational growth attract specific talent profiles:

      • 101 PMBI Breakpoint Inventors;
      • 105 EEMA Marketing Athletes;
      • 106 EEOA Operational Accelerants;
      • 107 EERPT Resilient Product Teams;
      • 109 SAICA Internal Change Agents;
      • 111 SAAT Agile Tiger Teams and
      • 116 SPIT Institutional Traditionalists

Outer Directed (MBTI profiles):

ESFJ and ESTJ

What about the Holiday Tau for Zahn, Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me? Wow, this TauBit of Wisdom is one to ponder.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Focus your attention on the one area of your life that, if changed, would favorably touch every other area of your life.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Like I said, leave it to WW&C to peel away the onion that is the essence of what drives be, gives me an advantage, but reminds me where the work really gets done.

“5”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Once you see a problem from the top, you’ll know how to solve it.  But you have to go back down and solve it on the ground.” Taurus

Well, hell yeah.  But, I’m just too busy to pick Howey’s Holiday Tau in addition to the last one.

“3”  Steve Howey, 42: “The truly secure don’t usually see the point in drawing attention to themselves, as they’re too busy just doing what comes naturally.”  Cancer

Cosmic, baby or should I say babies Carell, Martin and the Woz?

“4”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Keep a secret to yourself with a sparkle in your eye and its impact is charismatic.  Keep it to yourself with shame and its impact is a gravitational pull on your spirit.”  Leo

Hmm. Kerr’s Holiday Tau makes sense, but I’m just not buying in today.

“2”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Get in the mix however you can — as a volunteer, an intern or just as an unqualified person doing a job for free.” Libra

Am I getting tired swiping Aoki’s Holiday Tau? Not really, but maybe it would be easier to change my birthday.

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “You know what you want, but your brain will object with the most interesting excuses.  Don’t give it the chance.  Act first; think later.” Sagittarius

Harvey’s Holiday Tau resonates with the INTP in me — an introvert who remembers experiences from a deeper past, especially by following the bread crumbs in journals.

“4”  Steve Harvey, 62: “A sentimental mood makes the passage of time a little blurry.  And, if so inclined, you’ll find that you can move fluidly to a feeling you had in the distant past.”  Capricorn

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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S1 E103 — Innies and Outies and Other Potential Catastrophes

Last Sunday’s potential, but diverted, catastrophe triggered a work around so I could continue to access my Inspiration files, especially those devoted to Work aka “Volume Two Manuscript” in the “Knowledge Path: Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest and Leave a Legacy” series.

“5”  Steve Smith, 30: “Some days there are so many loose ends to tie up they feel like an extension of yesterday or last week.  Just remember that you don’t have to do any thing.” Gemini

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Evidence

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 103 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 17th day of October in the fall of 2019.

So, I continued to reorganize original files, to track down broken links, re-name several of my 16 talent profiles based on my original research, double-check the accuracy of each description before exporting from Inspiration into a .pdf  as a way of preserving the graphical layouts.

Earlier this week on Tuesday and Wednesday I managed to scrub “16 MBTI Equivalents” – Myers-Briggs Type Indicators as a cornerstone of my “Volume Two Manuscript”

Outer Directed: ENTP, ESTP, ENTJ, ESFP, ENFP and ENFJ

 Inner Directed: ISTP, INFJ, INTJ, ISFP, ISTJ, INFP, ISFJ and INTP

Today, I added equivalent Inner Directed matching Talent Profiles from my original research and decade of testing:

102 PMTL Thought Leaders; 

103 PMCI Commercial Innovators; 

104 PMRDE  R&D Experimenters; 

108 EECBG Core Business Groups; 

110 SAAS Analytical Specialists; 

112 SALS Loyal Survivalists; 

113 SPIP Idea Packagers and 

115 SPPP Professional Practitioners 

But, how are we doing with our Holiday Tau? For Zahn, Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me? 

Today’s Taubit of Wisdom fits nicely with “Knowledge Path: Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest and Leave a Legacy” series.

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You’re allowed to experiment with your life, and even with your style and sense of identity.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Strange that I hear my mothers voice instructing me with her formal “Stephen” I only heard when I was in trouble resonating via two musical icons and the Holiday Tau of a comedian.  But, I’ll take it.

“4”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Often the thing you don’t want to do is also the right thing to do, and you know that.  It’s why you don’t want to do it and also why you must.” Taurus

What if they are actually an extension of both yesterday and last week?  I’m just not buying the ending given my current fear of an operating system disruption.

“5”  Steve Smith, 30: “Some days there are so many loose ends to tie up they feel like an extension of yesterday or last week.  Just remember that you don’t have to do any thing.” Gemini

At the risk of plowing the same ground, I’ll acknowledge that this is with a minor twist the story of my career.  Figure it out yourself, then go put and find a decision maker who will pay you for your new found knowledge.

“5”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Because you know that growing through your mistakes is much faster style of learning than you get in a classroom, you can forgo the educational fees and instead get busy doing the thing.” Leo

Thanks, Steve.  Good advice.

“4”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “Keep making things, like you do.  This is part of what keeps you vital and certainly something you’ll be remembered for.” Pisces

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S2 E5 — Second Season Sneak Preview: My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment

Welcome to spreadsheet mania day, the bane of my existence. Look, all I want to do is monitor who I sent Patreon-interest emails to and track their responses. So far all I seem to do is do and undo spreadsheet rows or columns or cells.  

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

“5”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You can’t remember everything.  Update your systems.  Write yourself some notes.” Leo

Evidence

Hi and and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 5 of the Second Season,  My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 5th in the spring of 2020 here in California.

I’ve run into imposed limits on the number of BCC messages you can send through iCloud mail.  Trouble-shooting why it didn’t work took half a day.  

I managed to send 92 variations to people I knew, and in the back and forth conversation my messaging will improve:

Maybe it’s a little too early for Spring cleaning, but I’ve put this off for way too long. 

It’s been over a year since I left UCI to pursue my passion projects and to dabble in other interests. 

I’d like to stay in touch with you, so I’m going through my contact list and realize this may or may not be your current email. 

Hopefully it is, you get this and you can update my information too.

What have you been up to?

All the best, 

Steve

Instead of quick responses asking about what I’m up to, I received a load of failed mail attempts.  I knew there was a reason I didn’t look forward to the “working on the business” part.

Haha.  Can I twist our Holiday Tau to remind me it’s better to beg for forgiveness rather than ask for permission?

“4”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Forgiveness is merely an agreement to move forward knowing that the judgment has not yet been rendered.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

And that my Patron Saint friend, isn’t feeling all that good!

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The difference between assessing where you’re at and judging yourself will be most detectable in the way the you-to-you interaction feels.”   Aries

OMG Smithy.  You’ve hit the nail on the head. Thanks for laying out the options for improving on our Patron Saint’s TauBit of Wisdom with ways of figuring out what to do about my assessment.

“5”  Steve Smith, 30: “That moment when you realize you’re not telling your story to the right audience is a decision point.  Do you double down on the moment?  Do you change the story? Do you bail?” Gemini

Yeah, this is what I’m shooting for — combining McQueen’s with Smith’s and moving forward with your TauBit of Wisdom for consistency and efficiency.

“5”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “Figure out the steps and tricks that will help you slip into the right attitude, mindset and energy level to perform steady, consistent work.”Pisces

Is this day going to become a once in a lifetime when it comes to wisdom?  How’d you comedians (and an inventor) sense I struggled today with noting and updating my lists of contacts?

“5”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You can’t remember everything.  Update your systems.  Write yourself some notes.” Leo

Internal weather.  I like that Coach Kerr.  My variation on your Holiday Tau is it’s not weather you win or loose it’s how you play the game.  Haha.

“4”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Don’t forget that the internal weather system counts more than the external one.  And that is a weather system you have some control over.” Libra

What’s Going On …

Shifting Opportunities

Smart Moves

Long-Form

    • “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 5-Hundred Year History” by Kurt Andersen

Progress and Procrastination

    • Progress — My Response: Wow, I’m impressed.  Thanks for taking the time to give me great feedback.  Yes you’re probably right.  Nobody reads anymore, so we’re an endangered species.  You’ve given some ideas, I should reach younger people.  I saw videos of your grand niece on the gondola, but I wonder how to reach her.  Oh, wait.  I know. I’m following her on her twitter feed.

Working on the Business

    • 1,333  Flipboard users follow one or more of my 35 digital magazines. 
    • Who is my target audience at Patreon?  
    1. Introverted creators who are the overeducated and the underpaid; everyone from underpaid musicians to out-of-work PhDs;  
    2. who shop at Trader Joe’s (or wish they could); 
    3. who have more sophisticated and diverse tastes in food and drink.“ 
    4. find elements of the lifestyle they aspired to for not too much money, 
    5. within the reality of a schoolteacher’s salary that 
    6. offered glimpses into a much more affluent lifestyle. 
    7. marriage of Consumer Reports and Mad magazine. 
    8. a chatty rundown on new, seasonal and offbeat offerings

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S1 E102 — Why Is It Always Hidden in the Fine Print?

Oh my god. I came this close to disaster.  I almost lost all of the work that’s taken me well over a decade to test and write for my “Volume Two Manuscript” about “Work”. 

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Give yourself an advantage; take the time to organize and think it through.“ Aries

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 102 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 13th day of October in the fall of 2019.

Apple is updating their operating system.   According to the fine print, which my eyes normally glass over,  my favorite creative software, Inspiration, no longer worked after the update.

At stake were 16 talent profiles cross-linked interactively to Myers-Briggs (MBTI ) temperaments, aligned to organization types and growth stages – applied original research for identifying employers and customers which would be the best fit or worst fit for you.

If I hadn’t aborted the download, I’d never be able to access all that hard work. 

It freaked me out so much I returned to the Famous Steves website I saved back in September in my Pinboard Knowledge Bank while I left it to my unconscious brain to come up with an Apple work around.  

To my surprise I discovered a feature that allowed me to list 120 Steves by their sign — or the top 10 by each horoscope’s range of birthdays.  

For instance here’s what I found for Aquarius (January 21 – February 19):

Top Ten: Steve Nash, 45; Steve Perry, 70; Steve Yeager, 38; Steve McNair (1973 – 2009); Steve Prefontaine (1951 – 1975); Steve Terada, 35; Steve Roberts, 37; Steve Reeves (1926 – 2000); Steve Wynn, 77 and Steve Hackett, 69

With a little extra research on Wikipedia I produced the following table choosing the most famous I recognize:

      • Capricorns (December 22 – January 20) Steve Harvey, 62
      • Aquarius (January 21 — February 19) Steve Nash, 45
      • Pisces (February 20 — March 20) Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011)
      • Aries (March 21 – April 20) Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980)
      • Taurus (April 21 – May 21) Steve Winwood, 71
      • Geminis (May 22 – June 21) Steve Smith, 30
      • Cancers (June 22 – July 22) Steve Howey, 42
      • Leos(July 23 – August 22) Steve Carrell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69
      • Virgos (August 23 – September 23) Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61
      • Libras (September 24 – October 23) Steve Kerr, 54
      • Scorpios (October 24 – November 22) Steve Zahn, 51
      • Sagittarius (November 23 – December 21) Steve Aoki, 41

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Sometimes it’s difficult to anticipate disruptions when you are so used to following recommended updates — it’s such a habit followed unconsciously.  

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980):“Give yourself an advantage; take the time to organize and think it through.“ Aries

Yeah, I hope this secret art of thinking isn’t pathological, haha.  It’s certainly original research — 64 lifestyle profiles defining neighborhoods you can find by age, stage, status and population density and then 16 talent profiles you can use to identify the best and worst fit for working for an employer.

“5”  Steve Smith, 30: “You’ll get a stretch of beautiful mental clarity.  It’s like you’re developing your own secret art of thinking.” Gemini

Like so many things in life, you hate to learn a lesson out of episodes of extreme change and disruption, figure out how to accommodate the impacts in your life, and swear an oath that you’ve learned your lesson … only to fall back into your old ways. 

“5”  Steve Howey, 42: “In the process of reorganizing, everything will be taken out and examined.  You’ll see a vast improvement.” Cancer

I frequently say Steve Jobs killed me.  As a knowledge worker in the broadest sense, I’ve become sedentary which is not that healthy, right?

“5”  Steve Harvey, 62: “Intellectual study seems passive because it requires little movement.” Capricorn

I’m sure Mr. Jobs’ Holiday Tau is important, but not necessarily for me today.  Feel free to apply it to your life.

“3”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “An endeavor will not only bring you money but will also bring you other kinds of riches that matter to you.” Pisces

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S1 E101 — From Saint to Soul Mate and Trusted Friend

In the real world, the fact that Shepard Smith abruptly left his news desk at Fox News intrigued me.  But not enough to dwell on it other than wonder where he’ll end up.

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

“From the Latin Stephanus, which is from the Greek Stephanos, a name derived from stephanos (a crown, a garland). The name is borne in the Bible by St Stephen, one of the seven chosen to assist the apostles, and the first Christian martyr. Var: Stefan, Stefen, Stefon, Stephan, Stephon, Stevan, Steven, Stevon. Short: Steve”

Evidence

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 101 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 12th day of October in the fall of 2019.

In early afternoon I returned to my “Tau of Steves” passion project, by searching in my Knowledge Bank on Pinboard.  

There I rediscovered the websites I had investigated after returning from our Norwegian vacation, where while a Norwegian slept in my bed I dreamed of Marc Maron interviewing me on his podcast.

I progressed though first name statistics, Boys Named Steve, List of Famous People Named Steve (“What’s in a Name? Lists about and ranking the best, worst, most interesting, and most surprising names of real people, normal and famous.”), famous Steves quiz, famous Steve characters and Famous People Named Stephen or Steven (“Including all the variants such as Steve, Stevie etc. Again here’s plenty from the entertainment world, as well as sports and fictional characters”).

What intrigued me, thinking ahead to a Thanksgiving family reunion with expectant mothers in attendance, was stumbling across a website called Baby Name Wizard.  

Being an advocate for Steves everywhere, I did a little homework:  

“From the Latin Stephanus, which is from the Greek Stephanos, a name derived from stephanos (a crown, a garland). The name is borne in the Bible by St Stephen, one of the seven chosen to assist the apostles, and the first Christian martyr. Var: Stefan, Stefen, Stefon, Stephan, Stephon, Stevan, Steven, Stevon. Short: Steve”

And finally it prepared me with more information to influence our expectant mother’s choices about why she’s attracted to a name. 

In her mind’s eye she projects out into the future imagining him with his name on his door leading into a very prestigious office, while on the downside she’s ever mindful of nicknames and how he’ll be teased in school.

Here’s a major reason for why she should choose “Steve” quoted from Urban Dictionary for Steve: 

“A wonderful loving man who makes you smile. A best friend and lover in one. Sometimes harsh but always knows what to say and how to say it. He inspires loyalty and devotion from those around him. The man who others rely on but at times he will need someone to rely on and when he does he always turns to the same person. A man of honor, strength and dignity. A soul mate and trusted friend. Once he claims your heart, you will never stop loving him.”

Okay, enough about me.  Other, than to say Emma the Baroness heartily endorses the testimonial citing it as just one of the thousands of reasons she fell in love with me. (She’s looking over my shoulder again, isn’t she?)

Turning now to today’s Holiday Tau. Is this a new twist of the classic old Seinfield episode in which randy George announces like all of us, we are masters of our domain?

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You are the owner of all that is yours.  You’ll know a line has been crossed because you’ll feel it in your gut.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

You know McQueen’s Holiday Tau has that “Art of War” flavor to it, don’t you think? 

“4”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Fighting against a thing is a form of attention; you may as well be feeding the thing.  Continue to fight and it will get bigger for sure.” Aries

You could say that. Having spent yesterday steeped in Fantasyland you could also say there’s an element of synchrony to it as well. 

“5”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “The highlight of the day involves a dynamic journey between knowledge and understanding.” Taurus

What’s at play here, Steve?  Your Holiday Tau feels right, but I don’t know why.

“4”  Steve Smith, 30: “There are things that should logically take lots of concentration to complete but that somehow wind up putting you in an energy overflow instead of draining you.” Gemini

I’m loving your Holiday Tau Steve, another energy flow and creativity instead of energy drainage.  Thanks for letting me lift it.

“4”  Steve Howey, 42: “The truth unlocks something in you.  The energy flows freely and the creativity is there to use however you wish.” Cancer

“Sorry  … Sorry.” (It’s an inside joke that only Emma the Baroness and I share) Sorry.

“5”  Steve Harvey, 62: “Apologies can be a form of intimacy.  Some people find them difficult to give, and others give them so often that the apology has little value.” Capricorn

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