I let Leo da V do out on a leash and he pointed out how lately I’m automatically judging and labeling and categorizing and attaching an emotion to an article’s headline. Or to a topic in conversation. Or off in the distance to someone walking the wrong way around the lake in a red hat.
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
“5” Steve Howey, 42: “You’ll cut through the noise. Instead of trying to prove a point, you’ll appeal to the emotions of others and let the point arise naturally in a story that proves itself.” Cancer
Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 27 of the Second Season’s My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on April 11th in the spring of 2020 here in California.
Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year
S2 E26 — Rethinking the N-Word; S2 E25 — Are You an Innie or Outie Thinker?; S2 E24 — Working Remote from KnowWhere Atoll
Related from Season One, the Normal Year
S1 E27 — Day 27 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E26 — Day 26 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E25 — Day 25 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E24 — Day 24 of My 1-Year Experiment
Context
He didn’t let me dwell very long on my self-development challenges. Instead he triggered a replay with Emma the Baroness from last night.
“Wait, you’re saying I was right?”
Friday night. Happy Hour.
The three Zooming Boomer chicks laughed, asked what was that about, traded pajama-all-day stories, capped on a super organized friend who has completely rearranged every closet, every drawer, every room, in her house.
They’ve known each other since post-college Orange County Beach Town days.
Two husband-less. One widowed. One divorced. One living alone.
One wondering when she would shed an elder millennial recently divorced and who moved back home away from his ex and his kids.
A blur in the background of the smallest Zoom window sings out, “See you Mom I’ll be back a little later.” She swivels slightly as he reaches for the front door’s handle.
“Ok, what do you want for dinner?”
Two Boomer chicks Zoomed before including my chick, Emma the Baroness, but she had never hosted.
About 15 minutes earlier when they were about to go live Emma the Baroness wanted me to help her make certain the rookie would be able to make her way through the confusing mine field of interpreting prompt after prompt in the newer safety upgrades new Boomer Zoomers face.
Time was running out. “Now you’re saying she shouldn’t just click on the active link I sent to her yesterday in the email?”
Emma the Baroness wanted to text a confusion-busting message to make it easier.
I could sense her panic while I tried not to judge, label, categorize and attach my growing annoyance to our exchange.
“Just call her. We’ll walk her through.”
“But, you said she didn’t have to set up a Zoom account, yesterday.”
“Yes, but it might be easier if she had already signed in.” I said.
“I’m going to call Shaggy, our millennial.” she said.
Ten minutes until we go live.
“You, said …” and the Emma the Baroness rattled off all the anxiety-reasons the social meeting would begin in disaster. “I’m calling returned-home-millennial mom because she’s done it.”
She did after putting rookie Boomer chick on speaker phone.
Five minutes left.
We three hit a snag over which password, new or the one she uses for her email stopped us in our tracks. “I’m going to call mom of returned-home millennial and have her call you.” Baroness said.
Two minutes. If looks could kill.
“I don’t even have my wine poured yet.”
One minute.
“I’m clicking on the email link and I hope they worked it out.” One was already in the waiting room the screen I showed Emma the Baroness.
She clicked.
Something was wrong on our end with the Emma the Baroness’ MacBook Pro. She couldn’t use her computer’s audio like we had done in two earlier events.
I ran to my office, grabbed my MacBook Air, instructed the Emma the Baroness to email me the invitation, clicked on the link.
Two screens of us sitting in front of our picked-up remodeled kitchen with the mood lights turned on greeted us.
Emma the Baroness asked about the third Boomer chick, the rookie.
“She’s here, oops what happened to her? I see you in two screens. Oh, there she is.”
“So you were able to …”
“I’m here, but why do I see you two?” I told her about the gallery view and she clicked on it. “How did you sign in?” the Baroness asked.
“Oh, it was easy. I didn’t have to become a member. I didn’t have to use my email password. I just clicked on your email link you sent us and at the website clicked on join the meeting and here I am.”
Two last things.
I gave Emma the Baroness my computer with the audio working fine while closing hers and walked deeper into the kitchen to pour her a glass of happy hour wine saying in passing,
“So, you’re saying I was right?!”
“Yes dear.”
Evidence
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Seeing no Pandemic TauBits for Emma the Baroness and me, let’s move on to our Patron Saint. Wait, Steve you’re saying enjoy the Zoom?
“3” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The situation seems far from ideal. What if you thought of this as perfect how it is? Imagine it would be ruined by any addition, subtraction or change. Suddenly, there’s a lot to love about it.” Aries
Wait, did I just do that with the Zoomer Boomers, Howey? There you go.
“5” Steve Howey, 42: “You’ll cut through the noise. Instead of trying to prove a point, you’ll appeal to the emotions of others and let the point arise naturally in a story that proves itself.” Cancer
I know I’m getting busted by Emma the Baroness anyway, so why not own up to not paying attention to deadlines imposed by others, social arrangement meeting times or planned events in the not too distant future? Emma the Baroness can’t help but attend to them. So, what you three amigos are saying is my strength she would point out how it irritates her.
“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “If you do things when you think of them, you save yourself the stress of having one more thing on your mental list. In general, anything you can get out of your mind and into the world will make your life easier.” Leo
For a gameshow host usually the answers on the board to questions make sense, but I’m not getting your Holiday Tau today.
“2” Steve Harvey, 62: “There are a wide variety of interruptions that might restore you, so long as the ruckus is outside of your ordinary pattern, and also out of your alternative pattern to that.” Capricorn
What’s Going On …
Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll
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- @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines jumped from 1532 to 1581.
Foresight
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- Column: Trump’s coronavirus failures may stem from this source – Los Angeles Times
- At coronavirus briefings, Trump touts products and promises – Los Angeles Times
- In a coronavirus economy, Trump seeks a new 2020 message – Los Angeles Times
- Amid coronavirus, advertisers had to change messaging – Los Angeles Times
Quality-of-Life
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- Op-Ed: Can Californians live without our access to sand and surf? – Los Angeles Times
- Airbnb hosts will get $250 million for coronavirus losses – Los Angeles Times
- Coachella was supposed to start on Friday. How crazy is that? – Los Angeles Times
- Flight attendants want to reduce coronavirus flights – Los Angeles Times
Long-Form
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- “The Fifth Risk,” by Michael Lewis describes how the thinkers in federal departments were targeted by Trump’s administration, especially the scientists and researchers. “‘I was fucking nervous as shit, Bannon later told friends. I go, Holy fuck, this guy [Trump] doesn’t know anything. And he doesn’t give a shit.’ Even in normal times the people who take over the United States government can be surprisingly ignorant… The United States government might be the most complicated organization on the face of the earth. Its two million federal employees take orders from four thousand political appointees. How to stop a virus, how to take a census, how to determine if some foreign country is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or if North Korean missiles can reach Kansas City: these are enduring technical problems.”
- “Chasing the Dime,” by Michael Connelly describes the inner workings of a (fictional) commercial research laboratory which fits the Paradoxy-Moron organization type. “(In the lab) is where you find time for more AE work. Analyze and evaluate. When the unknown or unexpected came up in the lab you stopped and went into AE mode. What do you see? What do you know? What does it mean? In the lab everything was clear … simple. Quantifiable. Scientific theory was tested and either proved or disproved. No gray areas. No shadows.”
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate
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