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.
“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
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
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- @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
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- “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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