March 2022 – Knowledge ATMs

March 31, 2022

S2 E20 — Panic, Fertilizer and Least Expected Meaningful Moments

In hushed tones, he says the market for his business is booming with marijuana growers. She’s not expecting to return to her medical role as her office shut down and surgeries have been postponed. Their kids took turns photo bombing the video stream.

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

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 20 of the Second Season’s My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 29th in the spring of 2020 here in California.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E19 — What’s Percolating in Our Collective Unconscious?; S2 E18 — What is the Truth and How Can You Tell?; S2 E17 — Shutting Mountain Resorts Down, Closing Boutiques, Kicking Tourists Out

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E20 — Day 20 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E19 — Day 19 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E18 — Day 18 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E17 — Day 17 of My 1-Year Experiment

The meaningful moments keep coming this year, and when you least expect them. You’ll slip into the flow of a project, and the feedback you get will really light you up and cause you to slightly change your trajectory. Extraordinary relationships begin in ordinary daily settings. You’ll be an important leader in a group, though you may prefer to lead from within lower ranks.

Evidence

Zoomed snapshot updates spread out from Florida, north to Michigan and Chicago and from the Midwest in Indiana.

AJ and D-hops, a Florida Gen-X couple with no children just started renting a place while their home is remodeled.

He works at an aerospace conglomerate that Emma the Baroness’ father did, and sometimes flies to San Diego to cross the border to their facility, now on his 10th year. He qualifies as an essential employee, seemingly unaffected by the Coronavirus-19 rippling effect. She works remotely and is discovering what their dog does all day when both had been working at their normal jobs.

T. Stephen and Art Mom, living in southern Indiana on the Ohio River.

Both twice divorced and now re-married Gen-X and Gen -Y couple, one 50-years-old and a sometime chef, but are idled at home as the auto industry supplier furloughed workers until there’s a reset. Art Mom, the mother of three daughters requires chronic care for cancerous stomach and kidney health issues is possibly facing yet another surgery and passing kidney stones like it was nothing. They’re making over their back yard to plant vegetables, kind of like a World War II victory garden, for meals and food security. A pet rabbit keeps their dog company in their house.

Art Sis, 65 plus Baby Boomer lives by herself in small town outside Ann Arbor,

She asks if the Chicago adult children endured a major storm bearing down on rural Michigan as fog set in. She shut down her coop art retail shop on them downtown corner of small town which offered items designed and made by local artists. Earlier she was on a video conference call with fellow realtors making plans for down real estate market.

Ty and Cam, urban Chicago Millennial parents expect their second chid in May.

They’re both working from home and giving the spotlight over to their daughter on Zoom, whom everyone else encouraged to sing and dance which she did reluctantly for the first part of the call, but enjoyed performing after the initial shyness wore off.

Ty’s sister, Cheerio, also a Millennial parent is holed up at home as a family with three kids outside a major university in Ohio.

Petie’s, her husband works remotely as an IT/HR professional for a major commercial and retail supplier of fertilizer. He says the growing market for their business is booming with marijuana growers — he said in hushed tones. She’s not expecting to return to her medical role as her office shut down and surgeries have been postponed. Their kids took turns photo bombing the video stream.

What kind of omen is it that none of the Steves’ Holiday Tau measured up to at least a “3”, let alone “5” on this final day?

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Not my birthday, but I had to add something. Is this adjusted for the growing pandemic? You be the judge. Let’s just hope so.

Today’s Holiday Birthday:

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @knowlabs followers or one or more of my 35 digital magazines jumped from 1461 to 1,481.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

- “The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World” by Marti Olsen Laney
- An Introvert’s Guide to Finding Success in Web Design

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

S1 E147 — Whistleblowing, Melancholy and Curbing Fallen Needles

So this is chore day. And return to normal decorated days of everyday life. Which brings a melancholy of its own, especially as you tune back into the news and there’s a whistleblower alleging even more corruption in the Whitehouse.

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

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 147 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 4th day of January in winter of 2020.

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Why did you start this endeavor? You are a million emotional miles from early impulses that had to do with impressing someone.” Taurus

Evidence

This is the first Saturday of the new year and being a Saturday where we live means Sunday is when we take the curbside cans to the curb for Monday morning pick up. And one of the big items is the Christmas tree known by its Native American name — Falling Needles.

It’s also fitting that today is chore day, because I’m picking up where I left off in 2019 with the intention of “working on the business” more efficiently.

Back in July I left off after writing drafts of 41 chapters for a Volume Three manuscript — I now imagine I’m being “interviewed” in the old folks home about my life.

How would it begin — as a way of telling a story about my legacy and wisdom I’ve picked up along the way?

- I found a draft from 12/15/19 for an open post.
- The Tau of Steve clearly captured my imagination and might be a good reason for Patreon supporters to become community members in Discord.
- I’d need to invite them to become part of the experiment like this one the horoscope project which began in February 2019.
- “What I learned from … horoscopes this past year”.
- My first dated Scorpio horoscope on 2/24/19, “Nothing exists in one dimension for you, and three is also too few, because you are understanding things on levels unexplainable.”

And, six others I might be willing to trade. A natural experiment or “living life as an artist.”

And the beat goes on with today’s Holiday Tau for Zahn, Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me. Yesterday’s sample really, really sucked. But today? How optimistic for the year, if I tie these loose ends up ASAP.

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “What’s coming up is fantastic, although there’s not a moment to waste in anticipating it as many loose ends still need to be tied.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

I just don’t remember any more Holiday Tau that spoke to me than today’s. From the original list of motivational and inspirational TauBits I only rejected three. So, they’re really, really good or I felt really, really needy.

So Steve, your Holiday Tau tells me that my audience will find me and learn to like what I’m offering, right? I’ll take it if you don’t mind. Thanks.

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “What they want from you and what you want to give may not exactly match up, but they’ll learn to want what you prefer to deliver.” Aries

Haha, sometimes it takes so long to create what I started that I totally forget the why and have to back track to rediscover it.

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Why did you start this endeavor? You are a million emotional miles from early impulses that had to do with impressing someone.” Taurus

Look, Steve I realize this TauBit of Wisdom is well wise, but I just can’t use it to day. Maybe early next week?

“3” Steve Smith, 30: “Be glad you recognize your own faults. People with faults can improve, whereas those who believe they have none will spiral into more complicated delusions.” Gemini

Howey, your TauBit makes a lot of sense. Was it somebody else’s Holiday Tau that explained when we yearn for the good old days, they weren’t really what happened as much as a fantasy that never was either. It’s more about expectations.

“4” Steve Howey, 42: “Before you waste any time longing for what was, consider whether it really was or not. Why not stand in the present instead?” Cancer

Okay, now I’m feeling the answer to the sheer volume of Steves today is that I’m feeling really, really needy and these looked really good through that filter. Hell, I don’t know where my true boundaries lie.

“3” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Don’t let other people draw the line for you today, as only you know where your true boundaries lie.” Leo

Okay, I was following the first part, because it reminded me of the Knowledge Path — which when you strip it down to its essence is a way of designing your future. So, yes life still happens to you, but anticipate most of it so you aren’t startled and surprised frequently and as a result you have the energy and resilience to deal with it as you move forward.

“5” Steve Kerr, 54: “Some days you feel you have control over experience, other days it feels like life is happening to you. Remaining in your power has to do with taking the right amount of responsibility.” Libra

As in Emma the Baroness …

“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “The best part of the day is the part where you pause to acknowledge what you have and want it anew.” Sagittarius

Promises, promises. So listen Steve the new year is a time for hope and new resolutions, so while I can’t really use it today, I’ll keep your Holiday Tau in mind for later.

“4” Steve Harvey, 62: “People learn your wants. You adjust your expectations. You’re stronger. Tasks get simplified. You extract more pleasure from this.” Capricorn

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

March 29, 2022

S1 E146 — 3 am Dreams Lend No Support

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

Maybe it was around 3 am last night (this morning) I regained consciousness in the dark, realizing I’d been rehearsing names for support tiers on my Patreon page in a dream trying to a solve my problem.

Hi and welcome to Friday’s Episode 146 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 3rd day of January in winter of 2020.

Evidence

On this third day of a great big, beautiful new year that holds out so much promise like every year does at this time, Emma the Baroness and I hibernate in the glow of Christmas holiday decorations — not really wanting to take everything down and pack it up and store it for this time in 2020 – 2021.

AJ’s birthday falls on January 8th and because she too lives in Orange County, but in a different state — Florida — I drove to Rancho Santa Margarita’s nearby Post Office to mail her gift first class to arrive in plenty of in time.

While driving the 4 miles home, and listening to my playlist I returned to my essential question, “Should I select Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest. Leave a Legacy.”

Or variations on titles of my books $1 returning visitor, $3 is traveler, $5 is seeker, $9 pathfinder, $25 trailblazer?

Or places, like in Newport Beach? And other scenic locations along Pacific Coast Highway traveling north?

How about inspiration from our Holiday Tau today? Nope, nothing.

“2” Steve Zahn, 51: “You express your fearlessness differently now. You’re unconcerned with appearing powerful or right, or proving yourself. Fearlessness allows for vulnerability.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

So that was disappointing. How about from the rest of the Steves? Oh, I get it these TauBits of Wisdom gear themselves to resolutions and getting organized without being too hard on yourself.

“2” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The first step to staying inside your own rules and feeling confident in your integrity is to consciously define and outline your plan daily.” Aries

“2” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Maybe you don’t need to forgive yourself so much as learn more about yourself. You expected something different than what you wanted to do in the moment.” Leo

“2” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “Down deep you understand that life will always be complicated so the moment to take it in, or give it away, is always now and now and now.” Virgo

“2” Steve Aoki, 41: “You’re trying things, striving, acting. Mistakes are what successful people make more of than anyone else.” Sagittarius

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

March 28, 2022

S4 E3 — Rocky-like Struggle Against Evil Touching Us All

Weeks earlier, the White House had abruptly put a hold on nearly four hundred million dollars. “Zelensky was giving it everything he had, trying to build rapport with the president, flattering a notoriously egotistical character, steering the conversation toward the military aid … “

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s 3rd Episode in Season 4 of “Our Disruptively Resilient Year” on this 5th day of March in the spring of 2022.

We concluded the three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed — during the “normal” pre-pandemic year compared to the pandemic year, and more recently to the paradoxically normal year.

Season 4 continues now within domestic and global chaos.

Previously in Season Four, The Disruptively Resilient Year

S4 E2 — Suffering Through Little Big Lies Insurrection Season; S4 E1 — Shell Shocked into the 4th Season

Related from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year

S3 E3 — A Pivot, a Miracle or Something Paradoxically Normal?; S3 E2 — Preview of the New Post Pandemic Season; S3 E1 — Preview Day One in Season Three of the New Abnormality

Related from Season Two, the Pandemic Year

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 from Season One, the Normal Year

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

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

“5” Steve Harvey, 62; Stephan Patis, 53; Stephen Hawking (1943 – 2018): “Experiment with different ways to express yourself. If there’s a script to follow, you’re the one writing it. Nothing is fixed here, and you are absolutely free to try what you wish.” Capricorn

Evidence

In the first episode of Season 4 I rediscovered a section about money laundering written by Ben Lewis in his “The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting”.

Elena began trying to freeze her husband’s, Dmitry Rybolovlev, assets, including his yacht in the British Virgin Islands and prohibit him “from removing from Singapore twelve paintings by various artists such as Modigliani, van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Degas and Rothko.”

“He had been buying a lot of art, and—divorce be damned—he was going to buy much more, including the Salvator Mundi.”

Alexander Vindman describes in his book, “Here, Right Matters: An American Story” that he knew the president had clear and straightforward talking points:

“Because I’d written them. Congratulate Zelensky on his victory, show support for Ukraine’s reform anticorruption agenda, and urge caution regarding the Russians. Trump began speaking, and I knew right away that everything was going wrong.”

Weeks earlier, the White House had abruptly put a hold on nearly four hundred million dollars.

“Zelensky was giving it everything he had, trying to build rapport with the president, flattering a notoriously egotistical character, steering the conversation toward the military aid … “

In the infamous “Quid pro quo” phone call, Vindman documented the conversation.

“The president didn’t miss a beat: ‘I would like you to do us a favor, though,’ he said. I paused in my note taking. What was this?”

To counter the evidence about Russian email hacking assistance, the president worked into their conversation the conspiracy theory that Rudy Giuliani had recently been promoting publicly.

Not only didn’t the president stick to the call script Vendman has prepared, but he substituted his own fabrications.

“Ukrainian actors were supposedly behind the DNC server hack. To that end, he asked Zelensky to cooperate with the U.S. attorney general, William Barr.”

The president’s administration actively blamed actors in Ukraine for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, commonly named “The Witch Hunt” in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

And, then the president drove off the road at high speed careening up and over a guard rail.

“‘The other thing,’ the president continued, ‘there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son.’”

Unlike our former president, Zelensky transformed from a rookie, having been a former comedian, to an authentic leader.

Many of our Ukraine ambassadors and diplomats called before congress during the hearings leading up to the impeachment 1.0, now years later, admit to wondering how Zelensky would meet the crisis unfolding in front of him and daily streamed to our screens.

“Rocky-like” and against all odds he masterfully inspires his citizens to resist the brutal attacks and has managed to turn the narrative (Putin propaganda) to Ukraine’s advantage.

Holiday Theme for The Day:

Struggle and frustration seem like common states that are part and parcel of being alive, when in fact they are entirely optional. These states are caused by resisting change or attempting to control the uncontrollable… What do you really have control over? Where will your effort make a difference?

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“4” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “For reasons unapparent, someone keeps popping into your mind. This is your intuition connecting on invisible wavelengths. Follow through. In retrospect, this will all make sense.” Aries

Okay, I look forward to it. My first guess is Jazzy. But, I think I know why.

“3” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “As much as you’d like to catch up on people’s lives, you feel pulled to catch up on something internal first. Unplug and get back to being the sort of human that existed for thousands of years before pocket information streams.” Taurus

Really, I should go all Neanderthal? But, wasn’t it very cold then?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “The heroes of yesteryear paved a trail for you. Maybe they weren’t thinking of you when they did it. They were looking out for their own well-being. When you do the same, you never know who you’ll end up helping.” Leo

I’m getting older and even reconsidering donating my DNA to pinpoint more clearly who is and who isn’t a yesteryear trailblazer in my family’s ancestory.

“3” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “There’s a decision to make. The risk is minimal, and the upside is obvious, yet this is not an easy “yes.” There are other unseen complexities at work here. Trust your intuition.” Virgo

I would, but which decision did you have in mind? Adding expenses into a Schedule C since we owe way too much on our taxes? Lot’s of taxing complexities at work, for sure.

“4” Steve Kerr, 54: “Exercise helps with moods, stress, sleep, energy, circulation and just about anything that could ail you now. When you think about the many benefits, you’ll wonder how you don’t make this a more sacred part of your life.” Libra

Especially now that it’s been about 6 weeks since my last physical therapy session for building back my artificial knee better.

“3” Steve Aoki, 41; Steven Spielberg, 74: “Sorting, organizing and planning are in order. The tough part is deciding what stays and what goes. To say yes to your desire is to say no to something else. You’re ready.” Sagittarius

Why is it I can always find it easy to sort and organize what Emma the Baroness finds difficult, especially deciding what goes and what remains? As she can for me?

Well, the opportunity to pivot presents itself here in Season 4. I guess the one question I must ask myself is if this path still has a heart for me. Stay tuned.

“4” Steve Nash, 45: “There’s a wall of privacy and an aura of mystery surrounding you. Some struggle with knowing what information should be kept private, but you understand the appropriateness of sharing information.” Aquarius

Both Emma the Baroness and I value privacy. For most of my careers I advised clients in confidential settings and relationships. So are you saying bottling messages and setting them adrift from KnowWhere Atoll is too opaque?

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines according to my analytics, grew from 11945 this week to 12044 organically grown followers.
- Orange County Beach Towns 180 viewers stopped by the week before.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

- “The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting” by Ben Lewis. Review: “In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the rarest thing on the planet.” Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world’s most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo’s assistants in the early sixteenth century. But where was the original by the master himself? In November 2017, Christie’s auction house announced they had it. But did they?”
- “Here, Right Matters: An American Story” by Alexander Vindman. “We’d long been confused by the president’s policy of accommodation and appeasement of Russia, the United States’ most pressing major adversary. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, seizing the Crimean Peninsula, attacking its industrial heartland, the Donbass, from the capital, Kyiv. By 2019, little had changed, Russian military and security forces and their proxy separatists continued to occupy the Donbass. biggest change was to Ukraine’s importance as a bulwark against Russian aggression weeks earlier, the White House had abruptly put a hold on nearly four hundred million dollars.”

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Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

March 24, 2022

S3 E11 — Looking for a New Predictive Belief System?

It’s time for a celebration — “Pi Day” and daylight savings day, the one that steals an hour from your night time rest.

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

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 11 in Season 3 of “My Paradoxically Normal Year” on this 14th day of March in the spring 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.

Previously in Season Three, The Paradoxically Normal Year

S3 E10 —Feeding the Beast for Sheila in Fantasyland; S3 E9 — Melancholy and Undercover Brooklyn Moms Know Best; S3 E8 — Wait, You’re Saying I Should Read It Again?

Related from Season Two, The Pandemic Year

S2 E11 — Waiting for the 3rd Shoe to Drop; S2 E10 — Cats, Ladders and Shaking Salt …; S2 E9 — Blame It On Your D4DR Gene, Not Me!; S2 E8 — How Does the Entangled Fish Hook Theory of Creativity Work?

Related from Season One, The Normal Year

S1 E11 — Day 11 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E10 — Day 10 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E9 — Day 9 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E8 — Day 8 of My 1-Year Experiment

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “When opportunity knocked confidently at your door, you answered. Opportunity’s current signal won’t be so easily detected; it’s the flicker of feeling across someone’s face, a clip of passing dialogue. It’s as subtle as a pulse.” Taurus

Evidence

I gotta be honest, I love the Holiday Tau Theme for the day:

Can you feel the intentions of last week…?

Tomorrow brings … change that will have you witnessing your progress in a different way.

If you were to, very scientifically, log recent happenings by writing them down, taking pictures, etc., you will have an accurate (and repeatable) record of your success climb.

So what kinds of happenings should I be on the lookout filming and recording? Check out the Holiday Forecast for the week ahead:

“… ‘I am.’ In that spirit, individuality and identity are a cosmic focus.

In every line of work and play, from corporate work to romantic relationships to hobbies, cultivating an original perspective is the difference between doing a good job and being an undeniable master.

Each person has a set of experiences and inherent qualities that is unduplicated anywhere in the world.

To bring all of that to noticing the world is to set oneself up for excellence at the task at hand.

However, being a first-class observer takes a great deal more intention and self-discipline than it ever has before.

We live in an age where our every digital move is tracked, but people in our vicinity are so distracted by their own digital worlds that much happening in the real world goes undetected.

The old-school notion of the “nosy neighbors” is practically anachronistic, as few can be bothered to look up and note the comings and goings of those in close vicinity.

We do, on the other hand, religiously creep one another’s social media pages, seeking the true and inside story, as if that could actually be found in such a forum.

In the weeks to come, we will answer ‘I am…’ blending an awareness of who ‘I am not’ and a leaning toward who ‘I want to be.’”

For a comical aside, three strips come to us today, the first from Doonesberry by Garry Trudeau.

“Hello you’ve reached MyFacts, the leader in alternative realities! How may I direct your cry for help?”

“Yeah, I’m looking for a new predictive belief system.”

“I can assist you with that sir. What have you embraced in the past?”

“Well, I fell for 1987’s Harmonic Convergence, the 1994 Rapture, both of the 2011 Raptures, and the 2012 Mayan Long Count … Then I bought into the Qanon Storm of January 6 and the reset on March 4. I’ve been burned a Lot!”

“I can understand your frustration, Sir. Let me check our end times inventory … Okay, I’m seeing an Apocalypse in July. Does July work?”

“No, the kids are home then. Anything in the Fall?”

The next in Candorville by Darrin Bell takes place in Dr. Noodle’s psychiatry office as the patient speaks.

“How do we know the past ever existed? I mean … we can’t go there to make sure it’s real. I know we have photos and other stuff that supposedly document the past. But do you know how I know we have that stuff? It’s because I ‘remember’ seeing it! How do I know those ‘memories’ are real? We all just agree that the past happened, but how do we know that’s not some massive, collective delusion?!”

“… As I said … we’ll have to leave it there. Our hour is up.”

“Don’t you see? You have now way of proving that!”

And, this describing the significance today’s celebration in Frazz by Jef Mallett. Frazz, the school janitor explains to Caufield the precocious student.

“The ratio of any circle’s circumference to it’s diameter … is commonly rounded off to 3.14 … and iconically represented by (the pi symbol) … which linguistically sounds like ‘pie.’ Hence 3-14 is Pi Day.”

“Everybody knows that Frazz. What’s your point?”

“Is Pi Day a language gag or a math gag?”

“Oh, I see wait for it …”

“Good lord was that you?”

“I fed cheese pizza to the dog. Now it’s a biology gag.”

Being those as they may, let’s return to the task at hand — practicing as a first class observer, recording my success record, on this PI Day, preserving today as a past from something in the future and staying clear Biden’s Neanderthals.

Hi Steve, where’s your Holiday Tau been recently. You know Winkler, Emma the Baroness and I eagerly wait for your TauBits of Wisdom. Wait, what kind of group?

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “A group is going to help you with what you wish to accomplish. It will be up to you to seek these connections, to participate in different gatherings, to find the right fit or to cherry-pick your team from different places.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Wow, not so fast McQueen. Did you check out today’s “Doonesberry?” Throw in some critical thinking and then I’m looking forward.

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Power depends on alignment. Misaligned values provide a friction-filled experience. But when belief, word and deed coincide beautifully, all rolls smoothly forward.” Aries

Hi Winwood, Wonder and Colbert, thanks for offering me your Holiday Tau. You probably can tell by now that opportunity signals is what I’m all about. Monitoring what’s just around the bend so you can activate “If This, Then That” decisions in enough time to capitalize on the opportunity.

A little foresight couldn’t hurt, right? There’s the trend research and there’s the good old fashioned gumshoe business intelligence interviews. You wash, rinse and repeat until you reach that synchronicity moment when what you seek is within the grasp of your reach. At least that’s what hundreds of my executive MBA students found following my advice.

Here’s what I’ve always like about Aoki’s Holiday Tau, they combine with our TauBits of Wisdom to make the commonalities greater than the sum of the parts. I whole-heartedly agree with iterating new habits which can be efficiently deployed in service of a goal, even one strategically more difficult — personal redefinition. And, is what a career transformation requires.

“5” Steve Aoki, 41: “You have the opportunity to redefine yourself. One small habit opens the gate. Amazing things will be accomplished with mundane but decisive acts that have been systemized to the point of being automatic.” Sagittarius

Hmm. Uh-huh. I see your value. But, other than acknowledging there’s a rhythm of life and a pace to loving relations, I’ll pass today. Except Emma the Baroness is on the road with Jazzy and Delta Girl without me for 5 hours until they can say triumphantly, we are here, yet. Does that count for being slightly less available?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Relationships get better when you slow them down a bit. Some strategies to consider: talking less, listening more, being slightly less available, making fewer, but more interesting, plans.” Leo

I fear I’ll have to downgrade your Holiday Tar for today guys compared to yesterday’s. I’m feeling a worsening fear.

“3” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “The fear you avoid worsens. Confront it, and it will be scary at first, and then gradually get a little better each time until you genuinely can’t relate to the “you” who was afraid of the thing.” Virgo

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines jumps from 7397 to 7455 this week organically grown followers

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

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.

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

S2 E19 — What’s Percolating in Our Collective Unconscious?

Are we a dying breed? On the endangered list? We long-form columnists, essayists, authors, freelancers, reporters, journalists, bloggers and self-publishers? Sustaining a lifestyle business takes time and persistence.

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

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 19 of the Second Season’s My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 28th in the spring of 2020 here in California.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E18 — What is the Truth and How Can You Tell?; S2 E17 — Shutting Mountain Resorts Down, Closing Boutiques, Kicking Tourists Out; S2 E16 — Scroll to the Bottom for Foresight and Quality-of-Life, Right Leo?

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E19 — Day 19 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E18 — Day 18 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E17 — Day 17 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E16 — Day 16 of My 1-Year Experiment

“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “If you’re slightly less available to others and more able to go off by yourself, you’ll be incredibly more creative and available to the world.” Virgo

Evidence

What would Leo da V do? Today he’s got me musing about endangered long-form writers ….

- And, about the plight of bookstores and book publishing and why I’m learning as I go iterating with all the moveable parts building a knowledge bank — taking concepts, putting them into practice and becoming more efficient at producing better practices towards self-publishing
- A phrase from my way back and connected to Xerox PARC surfaces. It’s what inspired me to create and share new knowledge.
- It’s how they described their research and development process — we experiment with each new tool (new prototype in the lab) to see what it makes us become, and then we innovate again and repeat the process.

And, of course Leo da V’s got me off wondering if it’s true that innovation like rust never sleeps?

- What lies in our imagination now?
- What’s percolating in our collective unconscious as we stretch and use limited resources in new and different and resourceful ways?
- As we improvise?
- As feelers (introverts, ambiverts and extroverts) open their hearts and souls in altruistic, unselfish ways.
- And thinkers (introverts, ambiverts and extroverts) open their minds and viewpoints to see new knowledge created and patterns that signal solutions never tried before to address complex challenges from a different angle.
- Take the why of curiosity to the what if of experimentation.

Turning to today’s Holiday Tau how strong is it, our legitimate one, for Zahn, Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me? Not much, I’m afraid.

“3” Steve Zahn, 51:“You don’t feel comfortable in every environment but you’re willing to try until you feel the level of comfort that helps you navigate it.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Wow, this couldn’t be better if it really was my birthday, but it isn’t If it’s yours I see good things coming your way, right?

Today’s Holiday Birthday:

You’ll meet the person who can help you launch your life in the direction of your dreams. You’ll connect in different social circles in the next 10 weeks. Next month places you in opportunity’s path, and you’ll turn an ordinary situation into an extraordinary moneymaker. Friends and family will celebrate you.

Wow, Steve I now know why we appointed your our Patron Saint. You couldn’t more on target for today. And you’ve got me recalling my conversation with Brook when we wondered out loud if there was a half life of wisdom, like there is for engineers?

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The world is changing fast. What worked for you parents won’t work for you. Past generations have much to offer you, and vice versa.” Aries

Hey G&G, while you might not be our Patron Saints, your TauBit of Wisdom fits for an innie Like me!

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @knowlabs followers or one or more of my 35 digital magazines jumped from 1452 to 1461.

Foresight

- Will the coronavirus trigger a corporate debt crisis? – Los Angeles Times
- Remote jobs to keep you working during the coronavirus era – Los Angeles Times

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

- “The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World” by Marti Olsen Laney
- An Introvert’s Guide to Finding Success in Web Design

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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March 22, 2022

S1 E145 — Three Miles of Coincidental Dancing

Experienced an unexpected coincidence (aren’t they all) while walking three miles around the lake, lost in my playlist and not really paying attention on New Year’s Day

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

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 145 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 2nd day of January in winter of 2020.

“5” Steve Howey, 42: “Life plays its own music. You have little control over which song comes next and a lot of control over how you dance.” Cancer

Evidence

I bumped into Tammy, a two-time co-worker and consultant with her daughter on the backside almost directly across from Bagel and Brew. I’d helped her through her earlier thinking about a consulting website — “I want it to be more than brochureware.”

She asked me what I’d been up to. I paraphrased my Patreon tag line to try it out — creating digital magazines, blogs and self-publishing a five-book series — and she wanted to see my blog and website. “You’re on LinkedIn, right?” she asked as we continued on our way.

Today, after three days of updating email addresses and sending my holiday greeting in batches of 40 or 50 at a time, I tried to find Tammy’s email address, but couldn’t. Huh, that’s weird.

Oh, well I’ll just let her initiate the contact I figured as an awareness and interest scheme.

Was this coincidence attributable to our Holiday Tau?

Probably not, but we’ll see where involving Tammy might go. So, I need to make it easy for everyone, even those outside of my 1849 1st degree network-audience to click only on one link which takes them to my Patreon page.

“4” Steve Zahn, 51: “Dreams can be your wings, but only if you involve other people. Otherwise, they’re like a virtual reality headset that keeps you isolated.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Haha. I walked in a zone with its very intentional sound track. Looking ahead I wanted to find not only TauBits of Wisdom, but love songs as I played one after another in alphabetical order. If it moved me, I punched the title into my iPhone notes.

“5” Steve Howey, 42: “Life plays its own music. You have little control over which song comes next and a lot of control over how you dance.” Cancer

Sure, you could say I’m happy about a lot more time I now have which can be devoted to my passion projects like this one. Reconnecting by email with former clients, proteges, mentors and other advisors and consultants feels energizing — if I can efficiently mount my email campaign.

“4” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “You’re happy about being able to do things you once couldn’t, both new items and ones that go way back.” Aries

Haha. Tell me about it. Like WTF. Why doesn’t this work? What do I now? But, seriously is there any hope?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Questions are like keys to you today and will require a similar finesse, so don’t be afraid to give them a giggle and a twist.” Leo

You guys been listening in, or something? Your Holiday Tau may be just what I need today!

“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “Sometimes the way to win is to play harder and smarter; sometimes the way to win is not to play at all. Take a step back for the big strategy.” Virgo

Haha. Does this count? I’m so close to getting Patreon initially functional and off the ground and have a strategy of sorts to engage 1800+ in my network so let the games begin.

“4” Steve Aoki, 41: “There’s something good in every day, but more things good about today. You’ll want to keep track of this; take some time to write about it or snap a pic.” Sagittarius

I hear you Harvey. In fact, right after this I ask, “What would Leo da V do?” a little more often.

“5” Steve Harvey, 62: “Your heart is calm and you creativity is lit. Being creative is essential to your well-being; you should visit as often as possible.” Capricorn

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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March 21, 2022

S1 E144 — Down to Final Two Days Left

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

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 144 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 29th day of December in winter of 2019.

“5” Steve Smith, 30: “People want to earn what they get. Don’t offer rewards without considering this principle. Asking people to do something small and easy will be better than giving anything away for free today.” Gemini

Evidence

Selecting the new friends email group, I experimented with the my first of three or four emails for my Patreon project:

Subject: A New Year’s Wish from Steve Howard

“I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow, And each road leads you where you wanna go.” Rascal Flats, “My Wish For You.”

(Best West Road Trips photo inserted)

Love to hear about where your road’s taking you. Here’s a toast to your new adventures in the years ahead.

Steve Howard

Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest. Leave a Legacy.

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

You music icons come up with the best Holiday Tau, but I don’t have anyone else to whom I can delegate. Maybe in the second stage of my business plan. Until then …

“4” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “You wonder how you will accomplish everything on your list. Indeed, it’s not possible for you to do it alone. Break it down into two categories: what is easy to teach and delegate, and what can only be done by you.” Taurus

So Steve, you’re Holiday Tau might apply to how I reward a person to whom I can delegate and even maybe to my still unresolved Tier levels of support?

Hmm. Is there a message here that I can take away for when to launch my next Patreon message or should it just be on a regular basis?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You call people back when you’re ready to and when you have a reason that’s compelling enough, and this goes both ways. Therefore, you are at ease with the timing of life. It’s something to figure out, not rail against.” Leo

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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March 17, 2022

S1 E143 — The Grand Prize Winner

Up against a deadline. I hunkered down for eight and a half hours, first figuring out how to, and then merging lists of LinkedIn 1st degree people with a list of past clients and co-workers and acquaintances and finally lists of Executive MBA students I advised over the last decade and the list of Executive Mentors I recruited into the program.

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

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 143 in the first season of “My 1-Year Natural Experiment” on this 28th day of December in winter of 2019.

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “Write about your daily life, including the small details. You’ll gain objectivity, insight and appreciation that extend inward and outward.” Scorpio

Evidence

Here’s what I discovered:

Most of my LinkedIn network didn’t include emails, though I should have had access to them. I’ll have to deal with that later in the next week or so. I’ve got duplicates and old and new info on them. I need to create groups. I guess the name of the game is to get them to self-subscribe to MailChimp or Patreon-based updates.

OMG. This Holiday Tau might be the grand prize winner. I really can’t speak for Zahn, Winkler or Emma the Baroness, but I can speak for me. I’ve been journaling for decades as I mentioned earlier in the experiment. It helped me transition from one career to the next.

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “Write about your daily life, including the small details. You’ll gain objectivity, insight and appreciation that extend inward and outward.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Sure, Steve on some level I probable think this, but I can’t say it’s the overt game I play.

“4” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “You can think of a challenge as an obstacle in your path or as a test to reveal how far you’ve come, how capable you are and where to focus your efforts toward mastery.” Aries

Now, not on the same level as a grand prize winner, but maybe second place goes to Winwood and Wonder’s Holiday Tau. I’m living through this one all day today.

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Creative people can get easily bored by circumstances that don’t inspire them. But remarkably creative ideas are born by using through that boredom.” Taurus

Can I get a witness? Who sang that song? This may be why Emma the Baroness and I have grown in love and acceptance. As long as we don’t become co-dependent upon each other, right?

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “We’re always changing, just maybe not in the direction we want to. That’s why everyone needs a witness for an outside perspective.” Leo

My colleague I.G. from my leadership training and consulting days used to query the managers about risk and success before revealing that calculated risk is the stuff of super managing.

“4” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “Some shrink from danger. Others seek it. You do neither. You meet life as it comes, assess your risk and at. This is the cool-headed approach of confident living.” Virgo

Seriously, Nash are you going to let your Holiday Tau leave us in suspense?

“4” Steve Nash, 45: “Minute gestures convey deep and complicated emotions. Attention flows to certain things and not to others; the trail of that attention is a journey and a story.” Aquarius

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Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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March 16, 2022

S4 E2 — Suffering Through Little Big Lies Insurrection Season

Emma the Baroness and I have been processing the acquittal of our ex-President — not really being surprised by the “Big Lie” promote by followers in the Senate, but more disappointed after seeing new video documentation of the insurrection and detailed evidence time lines.

Hi and welcome to Friday’s 2nd Episode in Season 4 of “Our Disruptively Resilient Year” on this 4th day of March in the spring of 2022.

We concluded the three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed — during the “normal” pre-pandemic year compared to the pandemic year, and more recently to the paradoxically normal year.

Season 4 continues now with domestic uncertainty and global chaos reshaping our futures.

Previously in Season Four, The Disruptively Resilient Year

S4 E1 — Shell Shocked into the 4th Season

Related from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year

S3 E2 — Preview of the New Post Pandemic Season; S3 E1 — Preview Day One in Season Three of the New Abnormality

Related from Season Two, the Pandemic Year

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 from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E2 — Day 2 of My 1-Year Experiment ; S1 E1 – Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

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

“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “When up against unwieldy forces or currents too strong to fight, the only grace available is the act of surrender. You’ll give yourself over, but not completely. When the time is right, a dormant kernel will reactivate.” Leo

Evidence

Something was afoot in the beginning of Season Two, but we didn’t see coming.

Oh sure, there were the five global risks:

failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation;
extreme weather events;
major biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse;
food crises and
water crises stuff I’d been tracking already.

Was the next season shaping up to be a repeat financial disaster?

I’d learned my lesson as a rookie 401K and IRA investor.

I never experienced a time when I lost so much money — well actually the value of shares in a mutual fund not the actual money unless you sell the shares — for such a long time in the last Great Recession.

You’re supposed to buy on the story — how promising a stock looks into the future at today’s price. And, sell on the news — the best may be over for the next quarter so you take money off the table and squirrel away your profits

In the second episode of Season One a year earlier Steve Harvey’s TauBit of Wisdom triggered a memory.

All day we sat through hour long presentations from Trump University-like Real Estate promoters highlighting their expensive tips from their exclusive, guaranteed, limited seating “Flipping Real Estate Secrets” training programs.

And, Donald Trump was the keynote speaker.

During the growing recession, we did quick calculations multiplying the price for the training, the number of people willingly giving up their credit card information, and it didn’t take long to figure some made as much as $75,000 at the room’s back table — which is where the money was made.

But it was this time last Season in one of my more relevant reads described in Long Form that threads fueled my suspicious mind.

“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.

Now I have to ask, wasn’t Trump following Putin’s playbook?

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Today’s Holiday Birthday:

You’re a relatable visionary. People easily connect to your train of thought and will be gladly pulled along wherever you want to take them. Hone your leadership qualities and you’ll shape the future. Financial horizons will broaden with plain ol’ good luck. New additions to your world will hasten the pace.

“3” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “‘Location, location, location,’ they say. They’re not wrong. The number of lucky happenings and significant events occurring today will be entirely dependent on where you go.” Aries

Emma the Baroness and I feel enormously fortunate to live in our little suburban neighborhood for so long that, while this generation of homebuyers struggle for down payments as we did, we lucked into a nest egg (well after three lotteries) but compared to what our parents paid for the homes we grew up in, you couldn’t buy a car for the same mortgage.

I highlighted your TauBit of Wisdom, more for the brave citizens of Ukraine, than for us here.

“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “In spite of your desire not to draw attention to yourself, your goals cannot be achieved unless certain people take notice. So how will you make your pitch? Chances are it will be subtle and bundled into a service you’ll offer.” Virgo

Okay Batman riddle me this — just how do I go about doing just that?

“5” Steve Kerr, 54: “Life is not random; rather, it’s an intricate orchestration of mixed events, some random, others curated, some haphazardly tossed in, others painstakingly crafted according to your preference.” Libra

Wow, your TauBit of Wisdom may be just the one to revisit where I left off in my memoir.

“4” Steve Nash, 45: “Don’t be shy. The task at hand is too big for one person to handle alone. No one will know you need help until you ask for it. And when you do, you’ll find out that people really love to help you.” Aquarius

So first comes the pitch and then the ask. Funny after completing 95% of the Report about my Natural Experiment — Phase One — I’ve been noodling how to roll out Phase Two. Stay tuned.

Holiday Theme for The Day:

As we strive for security, we think a lot. Our minds race to predict what will happen next so we can respond with the right choices. But what if we knew there was no right choice? Instead of overthinking, it would be smarter to choose something convenient and make the most of it — which … describes the path to joy.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines according to my analytics, grew from 11945 this week to 12044 organically grown followers.
- Orange County Beach Towns 180 viewers stopped by the week before.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

- “The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting” by Ben Lewis. Review: “In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the rarest thing on the planet.” Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world’s most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo’s assistants in the early sixteenth century. But where was the original by the master himself? In November 2017, Christie’s auction house announced they had it. But did they?”

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Inspired by Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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