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S2 E104 — Worst Monday Ever. Very, Very Grim …

Given our steep decline, “rounding out” also meant leading during restructuring, and hopefully addressing serious morale issues while injecting more entrepreneurial thinking.

“5”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Don’t wait for praise. They seldom say what you want or need to hear. They only see the public result of what you’re doing, but you’re also on a private journey that requires internal reinforcement you’ll have to provide yourself.” Libra

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 104 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Natural Experiment” on this 28th day of August in the summer of 2020.  

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

Table of Contents

Season One and Two are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E103 — Confronting Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, Resistance and Unrelenting Stress ; S2 E102 — Caught by Surprise in a Major Gut-Wrenching Decline; S2 E101 — The Story of Strange Bedfellows Saving the Day;

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E104 — How Yesterday’s Success Triggers Tomorrow’s Failure; S1 E103 — Innies and Outies and Other Potential Catastrophes; S1 E102 — Why Is It Always Hidden in the Fine Print?; S1 E101 — From Saint to Soul Mate and Trusted Friend

Context

This is a continuation of “Volume Two Manuscript — WorkFit” a work-in-progress.

In previous episodes we described Start Up, Emerging Growth, Rapid Growth, Sustained Growth, Maturity and Decline stages.  But, each with the emphasis on how a specific stage provides another better fit opportunity for one or more of 16 Talent Profiles, yours included.

We described two mini case studies of what it was like working behind the scenes at a mature companies in a financial, in a consumer industries and in another century-old university system — Part One and Two. 

22. Internal Consultant MD&T 

Part Three

We now shift to a fourth example of a century-old mature organization, a multinational engineering and construction company, but this time caught by surprise which led to a major decline in Part One. Thrown into chaos for several years we turn to “experiments”to avoid cannibalizing survivors in Part Two.

Southern California Division to Corporate Tower

Paul, my boss, who fast-tracked to the corporate tower approached me to join him on  the 10th floor where Fluor Engineers, Inc were headquartered in a world-wide research, staff, technology and human systems consulting role. 

Basically, reshuffled divisions would send high potential managers into the developmental pipeline. One of my jobs was to select a university executive program customized to strengths and weaknesses of each — what we called “rounding out.”

Consequences of Not Mastering Growth Crises

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Given our steep decline, “rounding out” also meant leading during restructuring, and hopefully addressing serious morale issues while injecting more entrepreneurial thinking.

180-Degree Shift in Key Success Factors by Growth Stage

Growth Stage Key Success Factor Leading to a Crisis New Success Key
Start Up Loosen Leadership Tighten
Emerging Tighten Functional Loosen
Rapid Loosen Autonomy Tighten
Sustained Tighten Repetition Loosen
Maturity Loosen Control Tighten
Decline Tighten Red Tape Loosen

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He outlined my consultative role as applying what was learned about the people factors in our study of the implementation of technology pilot, to a new, farther reaching implementation of “3-D” design CAD package in London, Houston, SCD and at Fluor Daniel

Some of the speculation was that in order to compete, Fluor Management has decided to favor “capital-heavy,” instead of “manpower-heavy”. That year alone there was a $14 million budget earmarked for a pilot implementation.

What’s Life Like at the Corporate Headquarters as an Internal Consultant?  

I had “made it to the top”, that is I jumped from a corner cubicle on the concourse in the basement of the Southern California Division to the top of the corporate tower.

My office on the top floor has light tan carpeting, a dark brown mahogany door with matching desk, bookshelves and a round wooden waste basket.  It turned out to be short-lived, but not for the reasons I feared — taking a corporate job which seemed highly risky when every Friday new pink slips delivered doom.

To get to the 10th floor you need a special plastic badge to gain access to the mirrored elevator.  Without it you have to disembark on the 9th floor.  Two imposing dark brown mahogany doors seal off the elevator lobby from the 9th floor reception area on one side and a hallway of light tan carpet and closed wood doors. 

A camera aids the receptionist screening your arrival.  Usually the door clicks automatically and opens to a expansive “living room” style waiting rooms complete with couches, easy chairs, end tables, antiques and oil paintings, Asian screens and expensive pottery pieces.

On the 10th floor you just couldn’t beat the view from two offices down from the President FEI, the Vice President of Human Resources and the son of the previous CEO.  

I gratefully used their secretaries for correspondence and reports on the following projects:  

    • A survey of ergonomic research for Fluor Australia
    • A matrix of advanced management programs for executives for the Houston division, Fluor Nedetherlands, Telecommunications and the Southern California Divisions
    • A HRD role on the implementation of design graphics technology slated for FEI worldwide, launching is SCD, Daniel in Greenville, South Carolina and London
    • A summary of quarterly people development board meetings held in Houston, Ocean Services, Fluor Canada, Northern California Division, Fluor Power in Chicago, Advanced Technology Division in Irvine, Fluor Nederlands, London, Australia, Germany, South Africa and Fluor Arabia.

And, for example, I phoned Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pittsburg to confirm with the admissions staffs enrollment of 6 top key executive-potential managers into their 6-9 week programs.

Initially my assignment had been to work with IT software experts to automate FEI high-potential candidates.

By now the company had become a mature culture which had attracted three out of four talent profiles associated with Systematic-Professional Organizations.

Four Talent Profiles Attracted to Systematic-Professional Organizations

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To efficiently manage complex systems 114 Brand-as-Experts and 116 Institutional Traditionalists make terrific additions.

Peak Growth Leveling Off in the Maturity Stage

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They all favored the higher degrees of independence that came with engineering, project management, and staff assignments. 

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Many viewed themselves as highly skilled professionals, which they were, because it took advanced, specialized degrees to qualify for their professions.

They also took jobs at Fluor, because they worked at their own, slower, more methodical pace.  In “normal” times that was a strength. 

In abnormal times their strengths turned into resistance.  They weren’t the ones, they felt,  who caused the restructuring, so any threat to their status quo wasn’t their fault and meant their delay in “coming onboard” made it too late to change quickly.   They become victim to their own Red-Tape Crisis.

Falling From Maturity into Decline

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The last place you’d normally find talent profiles from the “red” Paradoxy-Moron Organizational Type would be in a Maturity Growth stage.  They “peel off” when an organization at the Start Up stage “crosses the chasm” into the first of three growth stages, Emerging Growth.  

Four Talent Profiles Attracted to Paradoxy-Moron Organizations

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They don’t appear again, until in this Decline stage and once more in the next stage, Reinvention.

In short, reversing the risk adverse, red tape-poisoned culture requires outside intervention with a newer perspective while the company restructures, downsizes and outsources costly internal operations.

The outside partnership blends combinations of high degrees of independence with medium degrees of disruptive innovation, speed, embedded knowledge, improvement and mastery.

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The 113 Idea Packagers work well in settings that require outside-the-system perspective when information filtering contributes to decline. They provide the conceptual framework by which manuals, organizational procedures, and even work assignments are translated and put into action. 

They also tend to be impatient with the bureaucracy, rigid hierarchies, and politics prevalent in many professions, preferring to work informally with others as equals. But, 113 Idea Packagers use cleverness and independent thinking to problem-solve and reinvent, and in an easygoing, unassuming manner prod organizational change and improvement towards restructuring, downsizing, outsourcing and other relevant solutions to the red tape crisis.

Why a partnership with talent from a Paradoxy-Moron culture?

While 102 Thought Leaders share a high degree of independence with 113 Idea Packagers they’re attracted to medium degrees of speed and disruptive innovation.  If the slow moving, status quo-loving cruise ship falls into desperate straights the captain needs new strategic steering and a new sense of urgency to keep from running aground. 

Lessons Learned

I learned on the job — how to improve quality, introduce new technology, teach and facilitate sales teams (I know, right) and at corporate headquarters send high potential managers in the developmental pipeline to university executive programs for rounding out.  

I learned large-scale organizations resist change like an immune system does. That helped me developed and refined my skill and talent to package new ideas — newer ways of doing things better — than what was the tried and true, especially during a decline when hundreds of employees receive their pink slips on Fridays.  

In bad times you need to offer employees outplacement on their way out and continuous improvement so survivors can feel productive and hopeful. 

In good times you need to build a climate for innovation and solicit ideas for growth. We just wanted to identify when our employers and clients should pivot between the two. 

Grim for Survivors

You play if this, then that scenarios.  If lots of companies relocate in or out of a geographical area then what does that mean to employees already working there?  Will there be enough talented people in the labor pool, or do they have to be trained to master jobs created?

So one of the other dark humor jokes we used to amuse ourselves was, “Will the last ones left turn off the lights and lock up?”  And, then one Monday morning a department’s survivors returned to find their boss had hung himself in the middle of the cubicles from the ceiling.

That took the wind out of everyone’s sails. Worst Monday ever. Very, very grim.

Inplacement

It took a while, but Tom and I always wanted to apply some of the techniques to managing your career and our success with outplacement had made “inplacement” for career development an easier sell. I learned some valuable lessons at Fluor over the 5 or 6 years I worked there as a management trainer and internal consultant.

Rightsizing

We named it “Rightsizing”. Usually we didn’t make the call. And we could be blindsided. So we just assumed the worst and  anticipated a major shift to give us enough lead time to minimize needless resistance or sabotage.

Anytime you try to maneuver a mature organization away from what had worked so well for so long the entrenched management resists the opposite set of key success factors like your immune system repels diseases.

It takes skill and talent to package new ideas — newer ways of doing things better — than the tried and true, especially during a decline when hundreds of employees receive their pink slips on alternative Fridays like clock work.

Taking My Own Advice – Plans A, B, and Maybe C

When your work for big companies throughout your career you need projects that make you valuable in booming markets and down markets.  Otherwise, we used to joke companies would begin to cannibalize their “human resources just when they needed them to step up.”

I could see the writing on the wall. “Plan B” was to assist Paul in positioning Human Resources in a different, more “developmental role” at Fluor Engineers, Inc. while my networking efforts led to a new job offer, which I took according to my “Plan A”.

Summary

Where can you find the best fit?

Consider the type of Organization defined by the intersections of dimensions that define their talent cultures and business models

16 Talent Profiles by Organization Type

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And if you feel you run out of options, next consider the demands of the next stage of your organization’s stage of growth.

Finding Better Fits for 12 of 16 Talent Profiles by Stage

Talent Profile Growth Stage Organization Type
101 Breakpoint Inventors Start Up Paradoxy-Morons
103 Commercial Innovators Start Up Paradoxy-Morons
105 Marketing Athletes Start Up Emerging-Entrepreneurs
107 Resilient Product Teams Emerging Growth Emerging-Entrepreneurs
108 Core Business Group Emerging Growth Emerging-Entrepreneurs
111 Agile Tiger Teams Rapid Growth Sustaining-Associates
112 Loyal Survivalists Rapid Growth Sustaining-Associates
110 Analytical Specialists Sustained Growth Sustaining-Associates
114 Brand-as-Experts Maturity Systematic-Professionals
116 Institutional Traditionalists Maturity Systematic-Professionals
113 Idea Packagers Decline Systematic-Professionals
102 Thought Leaders Decline Paradoxy-Morons

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So far we’ve covered each stage beginning with Start-Up to Decline.  But we have one more to include, Reinvention.  So stay tuned.

Evidence

“3”  Steve Zahn, 51: “It is only natural to want to be under someone’s skin the way they are under yours. Does it comfort you to know that perfect balance and mutuality is not the norm in love? Someone always gives more.” Scorpio

No, it doesn’t comfort me, and probably even less so for the love of my life, the beautiful and talented Emma the Baroness! 

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“3”  Steve Howey, 42: “There’s a type of pain that lets up at the exact same time that the job is finished — sweet relief. This won’t deter you from taking the same task on. The more times you do, the easier it gets.” Cancer

If we repurpose this TauBit of Wisdom to a physical realm and exercising it holds more meaning and relevance.  Oh, and learning a new habit to overcome procrastination.  But not as much for today.

“4”  Steve Carrell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Right and wrong are obvious. Most of life falls into narrower categories. Address the gray areas with different barometers: kind/unkind, effective/ineffective, energizing/draining, etc.” Leo

Hmm.  This may be a reach.  I’ve zigzagged between passion projects.  This one is more work related, but by misreading narrower for narrator, I might turn this into a saying with more relevance for my memoir.

“3” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “You’ll ponder the underlying meanings and connected personal truths. A little goes a long way with this so don’t wallow in the depths. Soon your brain craves either action, comfort or rest.” Virgo

Sure, anybody’s brain craves action, comfort or rest.  How relevant is that for me today?

“5”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Don’t wait for praise. They seldom say what you want or need to hear. They only see the public result of what you’re doing, but you’re also on a private journey that requires internal reinforcement you’ll have to provide yourself.” Libra

So does this TauBit of Wisdom apply to my simultaneous experience with my crowdfunding platform, Patreon, and this blog? 

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “No one gets to be all one thing today. Introverts will have to do extraverted things and vice versa. Agreeable people will have to have the guts to disagree. Disagreeable people must learn to acquiesce.” Sagittarius

And, all of this happens out of public view in our home or behind a mask!

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines organically grew from 4733 to 4807.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

The Knowledge Path | Know Laboratories | Knowledge Banking | Knowledge ATMs | Western Skies and Island Currents | Best West Road Trips

Knowledge ATMs

A peak behind the scenes of self-publishing, crowdfunding, and working for yourself.

Table of Contents

Working for Yourself

Mooning the Merry-Go-Round

Freelancers 

Master Your Persuasion Process Bit by Bit 

Preneurs 

Voice 

Appeal 

Consultants 

Fans 

Authority  

The Challenge 

Behind the Scenes 

60-Minute Habit 

Brainstorm Your Business Name 

Day 3.5 Pink, Pitches and Pixar 

Packages for Producing Profits 

Secrets 

Day Five: Repeating 1st Grade 

Who Should Take the First Step the Chicken or Egg? 

Is It Worth All Those 3 am Wake Up Panics? 

Day Eight with Two Yogis at a Fork in the Road 

How To Choose the Best Crowdfunding Platform for You 

Skip These 6 Self-Publishing Truths at Your Own Peril 

Bill from Colorado Springs, You’re on the Air!

Lessons Learned the Hard Way

What’s Going On? Why? 

Where Are You Going? 

What happened on your journey so far? 

There’s Nothing in your Spam Queue at the Moment 

What Would Leo da V Do?  

Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

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

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S2 E86 — How To Avoid a Disastrous Career Like Mine

Every organization, including our 4 fundamental aspires to grow. The growth stages follow one after another from Start Up to 3 Growth phases to Maturity and Decline unless a Reinvention transformation kicks off before it is too late. 

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You will be attracted to a subject appreciated by many and understood by few. When you go deeper, you will learn how you are uniquely equipped to be among those few should you choose to devote focus to this.” Scorpio

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 86 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Natural Experiment” on this 26th day of July in the summer of 2020.  

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

Table of Contents

Season One and Two are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E85 — How to Up the Odds in Your Favor: S2 E84 — Maybe Robin Hood Got It Right After All, Eh?; S2 E83 — Why Shouldn’t You Always Lean On Things That Worked Before?

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E86 — Day 86 of My 1-Year Natural Experiment; S1 E85 — What happens when the fear subsides?; S1 E84 — Crisis averted?  Energy depleted?  What are we going to do?; S1 E83 —The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book

Context

This is a continuation of “Volume Two Manuscript — WorkFit” a work-in-progress.

In the last episode I summarized everything you need to know about four basic organizations to stack the odds in your favor when shopping around for your next job opportunity.  

Oh, what disaster to avoid (unlike me) in your next career move. 

Now, we’ll build on better and worse fit options for each of the 16 talent profiles:

Paradoxy-Morons

      • 101 PMBI Breakpoint Inventors
      • 102 PMTL Thought Leaders
      • 103 PMCI Commercial Innovators 
      • 104 R&D Experimenters

Emerging-Entrepreneurs

      • 105 EEMA Marketing Athletes
      • 106 EEOA Operational Accelerants
      • 107 EERPT Resilient Product Teams 
      • 108 EECBG Core Business Groups

Sustaining-Associates

      • 109 SAICA Internal Change Agents
      • 110 SAAS Analytical Specialists
      • 111 SAAT Agile Tiger Teams 
      • 112 SALS  Loyal Survivalists

Systematic-Professionals

      • 113 SPIC Idea Packagers
      • 114 SPBE Brand-as-Experts
      • 115 SPPP Professional Practitioners 
      • 116 SPIT Institutional Traditionalists

Let’s we review stages of organizational growth from Start Up to Maturity and from Decline to Reinvention.

Five Major Stages of Growth for Organizations

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Key points to keep in mind:

  1. Every organization, including our 4 fundamental aspires to grow.
  2. The growth stages follow one after another from Start Up to 3 Growth phases to Maturity and Decline unless a Reinvention transformation kicks off before it is too late.
  3. Each new stage of growth requires a different talent culture than the previous one. One or two dominate at each stage.
  4. There’s no guarantee a specific company and organization will master the gap between stage its current and potential next stage.
  5. That fact represents a second set of better or worse fits.

Next up.

Let’s begin in the “beginning” with Start Up and build a case for “peeling off” two Paradoxy-Morons and one Emerging-Entrepreneur:

        • 101 PMBI Breakpoint Inventors
        • 103 PMCI Commercial Innovators
        • 105 EEMA Marketing Athletes

Did you notice we “skipped” some?  That’s odd, isn’t it

Evidence

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “You will be attracted to a subject appreciated by many and understood by few. When you go deeper, you will learn how you are uniquely equipped to be among those few should you choose to devote focus to this.” Scorpio

I forget finding the right fit remained frustrating elusive to me until I noticed how companies and organizations evolve into talent cultures that define them, until something forces a change and a different set of talent is required to survive.

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“4”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Behind the door that’s a few stops down the lane exists another world, a world that you will lend some imagination to until you’re let in and can get a sense of its reality.” Taurus

Is that the portal to the Twilight Zone? There was a time when I lived in Cincinnati about a mile and a half from the house that Rod Serling lived as he imagined the original.

“3”  Steve Howey, 42: “Generally, most people feel automatically sure of what is reality. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to go about their day. To question your automatic responses is always an act of growth.” Cancer

Is it too late for me to challenge myself about why I selected this one?

“3”  Steve Carrell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “It will occur to you that an area you’ve focused on seems devoid of juice. There’s nothing here for you now, if there ever was. Move on. There are other things to squeeze.” Leo

Only one area?  Haha. Another element to consider is just how long it takes an introvert like me to muddle through these passion projects.  Or, is this about Patreon?

“3”  Steve Kerr, 54: “You’re safe to let whimsy have its rule. Wish crazily. There is something of value in far-out or silly dreams. You can assess what is possible later. Right now, let your imagination soar.” Libra

Whimsy and silly don’t seem to be on my pandemic lock down agenda for the day.  But the day is still young and I have to say I’d love to let my imagination soar!

“4”  Steve Harvey, 62: “Don’t fight against problems. Struggle wastes energy. Sink to the bottom of a problem as if it were a swimming pool. It won’t take much to bounce off the bottom with your toes and resurface to a cleansing breath.”  Capricorn

My metaphor living on the California coast near the Pacific Ocean shifts to waves of change about to break over you while you body surf.  You dive quickly to the sandy bottom allowing the force of nature to push and pull you as it passes and then you spring to the surface mindful of a second and third set.  You select one and ride it to shore, or you duck dive one more time. 

“4”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011: “Why do people tell you their stories and share with you the intimate details of their lives? It’s because your warmth is a heart-opener that they do not get every day.”  Pisces

Early in my first career one school of psychology grew out of California’s North San Diego County and advocated for “unconditional positive regard.” I’m guessing that value has underpinned my engagements with clients, C-Suite executives, students and co-workers throughout all my careers.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines organically grew from 4427 to 4516.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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S4 E25 — Accountability?

Bannon told Trump to focus on January 6th. That was the moment for a reckoning. If Republicans could cast enough of a shadow on Biden’s victory on January 6 it will be hard for Biden to govern. Millions of Americans would consider him illegitimate. They would ignore him.

“5”  Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Your problems are not to blame for what ails you. Rather, these complications are what will grow you into a more creative and resourceful person. The things you must do to survive and thrive will be the source of your strength.” Virgo

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s 25th Episode in Season 4 of  “Our Disruptively Resilient Year” on this 14th day of April 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 Four continues now within domestic and global chaos.

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

Table of Contents

Previously in Season Four, The Disruptively Resilient Year

S4 E24 — Another Spooky Role to Play on the Outside; S4 E23 — When In Doubt, Follow the Money; S4 E22 — Now, Who Could Argue With That?

Related from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year

S3 E25 — Art Lives Upon Discussion, Upon Experiment, Upon Curiosity …; S3 E24—Reunion on the Edge of the Pacific Ocean near Legoland? Hell Yeah!; S3 E23— Free from the Pile of Rubble in Your Brain; S3 E22 — What’s the Experiment Got To Do with the Exodus from Barb’s Bunny Ranch?

Related from Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E25— Are You an Innie or Outie Thinker?; S2 E24— Working Remote from KnowWhere Atoll; S2 E23 — Gaping Loss No Amount of Mourning Will Heal; S2 E22 —Paranoid Rose Review and Traffic-Copped Check Out Lines

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E25 — Day 25 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E24 — Day 24 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E23 — Day 23 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E22 — Day 22 of My 1-Year Experiment;

Context

And, the beat goes on.  History may not repeat itself, or will it?  Enjoy a peak back to where we’ve been in Season Four, our Disruptively Resident Year…

S4 E18 — Hopelessly Naive or Too Numb to Know Any Better?

S4 E19 — The Reason Character and Honesty Don’t Count Anymore

S4 E20 — Resiliently Living Through Domestic and Global Chaos

S4 E21 — Not Since the War of 1812 

S4 E22 — Now, Who Could Argue With That?

S4 E23 — When In Doubt, Follow the Money

S4 E24 — Another Spooky Role to Play on the Outside

In “Peril,” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reveal “Women for America First,” had filed a National Park Service permit for January 22 and 23 in Washington.

They subsequently amended their permit application for a rally and reserved space at Freedom Plaza near the White House for January 6, 2021.

Woodward and Costa discover that Bannon told Trump to focus on January 6th. That was “the moment for a reckoning.”

“We’re going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him.”

If Republicans could cast enough of a shadow on Biden’s victory on January 6, Bannon said, it will be hard for Biden to govern. Millions of Americans would consider him illegitimate. They would ignore him.

2020 Election’s Big Lie 

Trump seemed furious when his closest inner circle popped his bubble.

“You’re not going to be sworn in on the 20th. There is not a scenario in which you can be sworn in on the 20th,” Pence said. “We need to figure out how to deal with it, how we want to handle it. How we want to talk about it.”

Woodward and Costa revealed how during the ceremonial validation of the Electoral College results Ted Cruz had not planned to offer wholesale objections to every state’s count.

“You need to object to all the states that could be raised by the House,” Trump said.

But, the consensus of the group was not to do that. Trump asked, “Do you object to one or two then?”

They agreed to object to the first state brought up, Arizona. Trump was unhappy. He wanted aggression, objection to all the states that come up. “No,” Cruz said.

Next to Freedom Plaza, where the rally would be held, upstairs in a suite at the famed Willard Hotel Boris Epshteyn, a friend of Eric Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon plotted next steps.

Meanwhile, Trump directed his campaign to issue a statement claiming that he and Pence were in “total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.”

Meanwhile, Jamie Raskin, in “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy” felt like the majority of viewers witnessing the assault.

What seemed fundamentally discordant for me was the political ideology of the mob beyond the deep pools of racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and immigrant bashing.  

He never had imagined they would converge on Washington to 

Destroy corrupt politicians of both parties, traitorous police officers, lying media, agents of George Soros, defenders of the Clintons and the Obamas, other sinister, shadowy forces identified by conspiracy theorists in QAnon and by Trump’s authoritarian polemicists like Steve Bannon.

And after two impeachments attempts at accountability failed, it would be up to a future independent commission or select committee to investigate the nature of the behind-the-scenes organizing.

Raskin described how the official January 6 rally was hatched within the core Trump political entourage, among people like:

    • Roger Stone, 
    • Stephen Bannon, 
    • Michael Flynn, and 
    • other members of the Trump family; 
    • among key fundraisers like Michael Lindell, the MyPillow Guy, 
    • Linda McMahon, the former head of the Small Business Administration, and 
    • Julie Jenkins Fancelli, heiress to the Publix Super Market chain, who reportedly invested at least $300,000 in organizing the day’s official activities — “March to Save America” rally organizers and “Women for America First.”

And that led to investigating the major extremist groups like:

    • Proud Boys, 
    • the Three Percenters, 
    • the Oath Keepers, 
    • Aryan Nations, and other 
    • private right-wing militia groups.

Insurrection

When Trump crossed over from nonviolent and lawful means in pursuit of his absurd claims to inciting violence against Congress and the election and Vice President Pence to get him to violate the Constitution, that was when he entered the realm of insurrection.

Evidence

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“4” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “You usually don’t like it when people who don’t need help ask for it anyway. But who has the time to make sure each request is legit? Today it won’t matter. You’ll help others and you’re the one who will end up feeling lucky.” Leo

You got that one right.  Especially if the person asking keeps asking the same question over and over because she hasn’t taken the time I did to stumble through and do the work to figure it out.  But, alls fair in Love and a happy Life, eh dear?

“5”  Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Your problems are not to blame for what ails you. Rather, these complications are what will grow you into a more creative and resourceful person. The things you must do to survive and thrive will be the source of your strength.” Virgo

I’ve got more work to do to stop triggers from the other side of the aisle.  Although both Emma the Baroness and I despair for families in Ukraine and the very real possibility that our country will once more be run like a mafia.

“3”  Steve Kerr, 54: “Those who make excuses or pass blame deprive themselves of the chance to learn the right way to do a task. You recognize this in others and avoid making the same mistake.” Libra

This observation feels similar in effect, but not emotion, to not doing the work and taking the easy way out.  Alas.

“5”  Steve Aoki, 41; Steven Spielberg, 74: “Growth takes time, but it doesn’t take forever. You’ve been patient, nurturing and positive, yet things haven’t formed to the shape you needed them to be. Nothing is so essential you can’t let it go. Start over new.” Sagittarius

So, either this is about spring cleaning or about taking stock, letting go of one or more of my passion projects and pivoting to a new start up.

“5”  Steve Harvey, 62; Stephan Patis, 53;  Stephen Hawking (1943 – 2018): “The task at hand is something you would do even if you were not paid to. Even so, don’t offer it for free. People will value it better if they pay for it.” Capricorn 

I’m taking this TauBit of Advice to Patreon — more specifically to only post to Tiers One to Three — nothing for free.

“5”  Steve Nash, 45: “Whatever you’re working with, make it your own. Forget about what a thing was designed to do. What do you need it to do? You’ll get completely original results because you’re not bound to the rules.” Aquarius

Okay, this doesn’t help me.  I can’t make these Episodes anything else than my own, am I right?  So, let’s summarize.  I should pivot, get paid or not worry about a thing and be happy that I can do what I love, even if I weren’t getting paid for it — which is what I did throughout my different careers and am definitely doing now.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll

    • @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines, according to my analytics, grew from 12559 this week to 12654 organically grown followers.
    • Orange County Beach Towns 216 viewers stopped by the week before.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

    • “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. The 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.” 
    • David Enrich begins his book with a suicide in “Deutsche Bank Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction” and then meticulously details the bank’s Russian money laundering operations. Deutsche’s Russian business surged after revenues had fallen 50% due to the 2008 financial crisis. Putin’s Russia, poured in to Deutsche from deals it did with VTB Bank, linked to the Kremlin’s intelligence apparatus. Deutsche positioned itself as a crucial cog in “The Laundromat” by doing what couldn’t be done — processing cross-border transactions for banks that were too small  and didn’t have offices outside their home countries.
    • “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy” by Jamie Raskin recalls one tragedy no parent should endure — the suicide of his son — and then a second tragedy at almost the same time — the insurrection on January 6th 2021, that terrified he and his congressional peers who were tasked by the Constitution to routinely oversee the orderly transfer of power from one former president to the duly elected new President. 
    • “A Warning” by Anonymous (Miles Taylor) written prior to the January 6th Insurrection as an insider’s account documenting how frequently the former President’s behavior and rage without any “guard rails” showed just how far he would go to win the next election at any cost while spinning lies and misinformation on top of each other.  
    • “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa provides anecdotes, stories and inside reporting documenting the controversial last days of Donald Trump’s presidency, as well as the presidential transition and early presidency of Joe Biden. 
    • “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising,” by Joshua Green tracks the money behind the scenes leading up to the 2016 presidential election and the growing influence of Steve Bannon’s network of extreme nationalists.

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S2 E54 — 90 Days to Future-Proof Your Career Trajectory and Lifetime Investments

Everybody’s talking about what should we be doing now (over the next 90 days) to get us where we want to be in the next 18 to 36 months, right?  It’s what you do for your own job prospects, career trajectory and lifetime investments.  

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “When you’re not sure whether to do what’s being asked of you, stall.  It gives you time to understand the dynamics at play.” Scorpio

Hi and welcome to Friday’s Episode 54 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Natural Experiment” on this 29th day of May in the spring of 2020.  

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

Table of Contents

Season One and Two are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E53 — The Fourth Step’s Passing Storm Botched Beyond Belief; S2 E52 — What’s So Wrong with Conventional Wisdom Unless …; S2 E51 — Let’s Agree to Make Things Worse, Shall We?

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E54 — A Version That’s a TauBit Grander; S1 E53 — High 5’s for Tau Secrets Revealed; S1 E52 — Missing Chapters and Paths Not Taken; S1 E51 — Brief, Broad, Fast, Wow and Delight

Context

Published this article on Patreon with the following introduction:  

Considering longer term scenarios is what you do to save you from future discomfort, or worse yet, major disruptions in your life. Think through why does this matter or what is important about this to give yourself that all important time to get up to speed before it’s too late! And then hedge your risks by creating some of your own if/then decisions.

3 Years of Accelerated Disruption in just 90 Days? How Will It Effect You?

“When you think about how different you were 10 years ago, it’s clear that change is inevitable and never stops. Believe in your aspirations.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

The Tau: Week Ending 5/23/20

Tags: Apple, Accenture, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, COVID-19, DNA, Drones, EVs, Incubator, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Tesla, Tracker Apps, Quantum Research, Transformation

To help you, consider these headlines from this week’s stories pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” curated for you, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.”

What if … ?

Accelerated Pace of Transformation

              • ”Accenture: We are seeing three years of digital and culture transformation in three months“
              • ”Now hiring AI futurists: It’s time for artificial intelligence to take a seat in the C-Suite“
              • ”The 9 Best Analytics Tools For Data Visualization Available Today”
              • ”AI Devours Data!”
              • ”Data on demand: Dynamic architecture for a high-speed age” 

Artificial Intelligence

              • ”5 of the best artificial intelligence books you must read”
              • ”Can an artificial intelligence learn to beat the stock market?”

Funding Startups and Incubators

              • ”Mozilla goes full incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup lab and early-stage investments“
              • ”Kickstarter is reducing its workforce by 39% through layoffs and voluntary buyouts as crowdfunding projects plummet during the pandemic”
              • ”Can Entrepreneurs Solve the Urgent Problems Amplified by the Coronavirus?” 

Advancing Biotechnology 

              • ”AI gets the attention, but biotechnology is poised to change the world”
              • ”DNA-repairing enzyme reverses age-related cognitive decline”

COVID-19 Ahead of the Curve

              • “Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution”
              • ”How Smart City Planning Could Slow Future Pandemics” 
              • ”Research investigates COVID-19 virus origin using artificial intelligence (AI)”
              • ”Tech Could Be Used to Track Employees—in the Name of Health”
              • ”Beware the Lofty Promises of Covid-19 ‘Tracker’ Apps”
              • ”Apple and Google are building a virus-tracking system. Health officials say it will be practically useless.”

Quantum Research

              • ”Inside big tech’s high-stakes race for quantum supremacy”
              • ”Quantum computing will (eventually) help us discover vaccines in days”
              • ”Physicists Just Built The First Working Prototype Of A ‘Quantum Radar’”

Nature and Environment

              • ”How Venus flytraps evolved their taste for meat”
              • ”These drones can plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion”
              • ”Tesla said to be readying new long-lasting, low-cost batteries to put EVs at price parity with gas cars “

Innovation Rippling Effects

              • “The World Is Running Out of Elements, and Researchers Are Looking in Unlikely Places for Replacements”
              • ”’Super steel’ breakthrough makes for stronger and tougher alloy”
              • ”Apple Glasses are ‘sleek as hell’ and could launch sooner than you think”

We’ve grown organically.  From 2839 this time a week ago to over 3188 followers today. No preservatives added.  

Don’t feel left out. Like, share, follow or join our community to see the details of what you’ve been missing.

The Tau 12 Months Ago 

“Questions such as ‘why does this matter?’ or ‘what is important about this?’ will bring you past the symptoms and right to the root issue.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Evidence

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “When you’re not sure whether to do what’s being asked of you, stall.  It gives you time to understand the dynamics at play.” Scorpio

Are we in the beginning, in the expanding middle or near an end in sight?  Who knows?  But don’t take too long in your stall.  It’s like gliding with the engines off in an airplane.  The ground rushes towards you at an accelerated clip.

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “The value of money is what people say it is.  It’s a social agreement made by a society, or, in today’s case, between two people.” Sagittarius

So, that’s one more thing thrown up in the air.  Given value is set in business by the interplay between supply and demand, what should we make of the run on toilet paper at Costco?

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines organically grew from 2839 to 3188.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life 

Long-Form

    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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Season One: The One-Year Natural Experiment

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

Table of Contents

Season One: The One-Year Natural Experiment

S1 E1 – Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

S1 E2 — Day 2 of My 1-Year Experiment

S1 E3 — Day 3 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E4 — Day 4 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E5 — Day 5 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E6 — Day 6 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E7 — Day 7 of My 1-Year Experiment

S1 E8 — Day 8 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E9 — Day 9 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E10 — Day 10 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E11 — Day 11 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E12 — Day 12 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E13 — Day 13 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E14 — Day 14 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E15 — Day 15 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E16 — Day 16 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E17 — Day 17 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E18 — Day 18 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E19 — Day 19 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E20 — Day 20 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E21 — Day 21 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E22 — Day 22 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E23 — Day 23 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E23 — Day 23 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E24 — Day 24 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E25— Day 25 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E26 — Day 26  of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E27 — Day 27 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E28 — Day 28 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E29 — Day 29 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E30 — Day 30 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E31 — Day 31 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E32 — Day 32 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E33 — Day 33 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E34 — Day 34 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E35 — Day 35 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E36 — Day 36 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E37 — Day 37 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E38 — Day 38 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E39 — What’s Up with Facebook? 

S1 E40 — Nothing to See Here, Keep Moving On 

S1 E41 — The Dream Was Over, Long Live the Dream 

S1 E42 — Love on the Run 

S1 E43 — Desperation on Such a Summer’s Day 

S1 E44 — Google Me Some Chopped Liver 

S1 E45 — Day 45 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E46 — Day 46 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E47 — Day 47 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E48 — Holiday TauBit Trumps Funk 

S1 E49 — Magnetize the Version You Imagine 

S1 E50 – The Bias Brothers or Just Plain Losers? 

S1 E51 – Brief, Broad, Fast, Wow and Delight 

S1 E52 – Missing Chapters and Paths Not Taken 

S1 E53 – High 5’s for Tau Secrets Revealed 

S1 E54 – A Version That’s a TauBit Grander 

S1 E55 – All Roads Lead to the Future 

S1 E56 – It’s Frickin’ Summer and So Are You 

12 Hidden Secrets and Stolen Wisdom – Month Two 

S1 E57 — More or Less in the Know 

S1 E58 — Judging a Stroll from the Hotel Santa Barbara to the Lobero Theater 

S1 E59 — Where Did All the Dillon Millennials Go? Eureka! 

S1 E60 — Overlapping Cycles of Life 

S1 E61 — Investment of Time and Effort 

S1 E62 – Next Reality? 

S1 E63 — Day 63 of My 1-Year Experiment 

S1 E64 — Father and Son Rituals out of Storage 

S1 E65 — Focus Your Mental Energy 

S1 E66 — Do Your Proposals Lead to Contracts? 

S1 E67 — Don’t Misunderstand Me 

S1 E68 — Overcompensating for Disappointing Results? 

S1 E69 — Anniversary Trip of a Lifetime Deep in the Heart of Tuscany 

S1 E70 — Lingering Fear My Cover Was Blown 

S1 E71 — Isn’t There a Placebo for This? 

S1 E72 — It’s Taken so Long, I Could be Wrong 

S1 E73 — Do You Need a Little Leo da V Time Too? 

S1 E74 — You Know What To Do, Yeah Right! 

S1 E75 — Dreams and Schemes and Workarounds 

S1 E76 — “The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

S1 E77 — Why This Caper Is Breaking My Mind 

S1 E78 — Drag Me to Obsolescence, Clear the Way to the Future 

S1 E79 — Can I Keep It Up? For a Year? 

S1 E80 — I’ll Give You Adverse Conditions, Steve 

S1 E81— Is This My Wake Up Call, Steve? 

S1 E82 — Why Writers Aren’t the Only Endangered Species. Sigh. 

S1 E83 —The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book 

S1 E90 — Day 90 of My 1-Year Natural Experiment 

S1 E84 — Crisis averted?  Energy depleted?  What are we going to do? 

S1 E85 — What happens when the fear subsides? 

S1 E86 — Day 86 of My 1-Year Natural Experiment 

S1 E87 — Pipe Bombs Destroy Vacation Bliss 

S1 E88 — Who’s Marc Maron and What’s da Vinci got to do with him? 

S1 E89 — Because If You Don’t Someone Else Will. It’s Worth It! 

S1 E90 — Day 90 of My 1-Year Natural Experiment 

S1 E91 — If that, then this … ? The daily double?

S1 E92 — Shh … Secrets Husbands Keep to Ourselves 

S1 E93 — Why is it easier to Hate than to Love the other Half? 

S1 E94 — Wasn’t There a Movie about the Tau of Steve? 

S1 E95 — No Back to Work Days or Hump Days Allowed 

S1 E96 — Old Rabbits Die Hard 

S1 E97 — My Top 19 Reasons for Failing 

S1 E98 — Why Can’t I Leave 26 Orphans for a Well Deserved Vacation? 

S1 E99 — What’s in a Name? Baby Boy Names? 

S1 E100 — Running out of Determination and Grit by the 100th Day 

S1 E101 — From Saint to Soul Mate and Trusted Friend 

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

S1 E103 — Innies and Outies and Other Potential Catastrophes 

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

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

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

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

S1 E108 — After So Many Defeats is it Time to Catch a New Trajectory? 

S1 E109 — Do All Introverts Take the Long Acetylcholine Pathway? 

S1 E110 — Love, Longing, Belonging, Connection and Loss 

S1 E111 — Is There Half-life of Wisdom? 

S1 E112 —  When Was the Last Time You Wrangled Your Past? 

S1 E113 — Is This an Omen? 

S1 E114 — Setbacks, Frustration, Epic Fails but How Was Your Day? 

S1 E115 — Meandering Minds, Falling Branches and Strange Pacing Until … 

S1 E116 — The Jolt of Lightning that Changed Everything 

S1 E117 — Poets and Priests and Testifying Under Oath … 

S1 E118 — Swiping Your Birthday Is What I Do, So Sue Me 

S1 E119 — What Happens When You Hold an Idea? 

S1 E120 — Metamorphosis, Exhilaration and a Life of Crime 

S1 E121 — When Should You Work Backwards and When Should You Shop? 

S1 E122 — Is the Next Best Thing a Friend with a Bad Memory? 

S1 E123 — Knowing it Wasn’t a Good Choice, But … 

S1 E124 — No Longer a Misunderstood Genius or Child Celebrity 

S1 E125 — No Names Again this Year but Pass the Gravy 

S1 E126 — Who Wouldn’t Want to Choose Steve, Stephen or Stevie for Your Newborn Infant? 

S1 E127 — Why Does My Horoscope Suck Compared to Yours? 

S1 E128 — Messy, Creative Leonardo-like Procrastinations 

S1 E129 — An Elephant, A 500 lb. Gorilla and a Chicken Walk into the …  

S1 E130 — How Do You Go On When Sheer Panic Sets In? 

S1 E131 — Brain Rattling, Self-Criticism and Second Guessing 

S1 E132 — Freudian Pink Slips for Endangered Writers and Bloggers 

S1 E133 — Why Don’t More Creators Write or Blog? 

S1 E134 — What Will This Force Me to Become? No Black Cats Allowed 

S1 E135 — The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book 

S1 E136 — Just How Do Zip Codes Prevent Homebuyer Remorse? 

S1 E137 — Shouldn’t I Bet It All on the Four 5s I’ve Been Dealt? 

S1 E138 — The Inscrutable Paradox of Tom Petty and Joan Irvine’s Estates 

S1 E139  — Crap, OTE, Just Crap 

S1 E140 — Chasing Squirrels While Barking At Nothing 

S1 E141 — Be Your Inner Artist and Let Her Fly 

S1 E 142 — Wisdom Arrives by Putting Knowledge into Action 

S1 E143 — The Grand Prize Winner 

S1 E144 — Down to Final Two Days Left 

S1 E145 — Three Miles of Coincidental Dancing 

S1 E146 — 3 am Dreams Lend No Support 

S1 E147 — Whistleblowing, Melancholy and Curbing Fallen Needles 

S1 E148 — Unforced Errors, Disruptions and Discord 

S1 E149 — Tales and Trails and Mind Blowing Dents 

S1 E150 — Two Tiers Shed for a Dying 4Runner Classic 

S1 E151 — Stepping onto the Pitch with a Lean MVP 

S1 E152 — Why? Again. Why? 

S1 E153 — Only The Names Have Been Changed. And Some of It’s True. 

S1 E154 — Ever Gotten That 3 am Call from Gilligan? 

S1 E155 — Distraction or Viewing Addiction? 

S1 E156 — Hope? Placeholder? Sign? 

S1 E157 — Schemes, Plots and Plans 

S1 E158 — Car-Crash Addiction or Integrated Self? 

S1 E159 — 5 Wise Guy Rankings, Why? 

S1 E160 — Mourning Kobe 

S1 E161— Secret Combinations only Life Hacking Marketeers Know 

S1 E162 — Why Do Her Covert Back Channels End in Discord? 

S1 E163 — A Balboa Island Thank You 

S1 E164 — Picking up Followers While Cascading Down the Face of the Falls 

S1 E165 — 11 Simple Steps for Finding the Authentic Quality-of-Life You Deserve 

S1 E166 — Falling Down the Time Sucking Rabbit Hole 

S1 E167 — Why is Tau the Golden Ratio Showing Up in Nautilus Shells?

 S1 E168 — A Mammoth Thank You to Kobe and Steve Jobs 

S1 E169 — Lockouts and Taxing 1-Year Season Coming to an End 

S1 E170 — Isn’t This Good-Bye?! 

S1 E171 — When’s the Best Time to Air Dirty Laundry? 

S1 E172 — Got it, Nash.  Rules, Heart, Mouth, Action. 

S1 E173 — AI, EVs, MRIs, Me and Steves 

S1 E174 — Isn’t the Lesser of Two Evils Still Evil? 

S1 E175 — Where’s the Finish Line? Is This Ever Going to End? 

S1 E176 — The Cliff Hanging Season One Finale

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S2 E47 — 27 Adventure Regions for Your Remote-Working Bucket List

Put some adventure into your remote working options. Build a new bucket list of remote-enabled resort towns. Here’s how.

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

Steve Smith, 30; Stevie Nicks, 72: “What task will move the needle for you today? What is the one thing that’s going to make you feel accomplished when your head hits the pillow tonight? Start with that. Anything else is gravy.” Gemini

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 47 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Experiment” on this 16th day of May in the spring of 2020.  

Season 1 and 2 are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E46 — Whimsy Passion Project or Epic Novel of Adventure?; S2 E45 — Wildcard What Ifs and Doobie Bros Bias; S2 E44 — Celebrating Emma the Baroness Tribal Quarantine Style 

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E47 — Day 47 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E46 — Day 46 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E45 — Day 45 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E44 — Google Me Some Chopped Liver

Context

I hit the groove, publishing to my platform on Patreon with:

27 Adventure Regions for Your Remote-Working Bucket List

“Your need to explore is as real as your need for food, and you’ll find a way to adventure wondrously.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

The Tau: Week Ending 5/16/20

Tags : COVID-19, climate, deserts, horizons, islands, lakes, migration, Millennials, mountains, Pacific Coast Highway, rafting, ranges, regions, rivers, remote, road trips, slopes, sunrises

Here on the Atoll, we don’t expect or encourage you to go check them out immediately. Instead we hope our articles inspire your future adventures!

Join our growing group of 2839 followers …. See what you’ve been missing.

Check out this week’s headlines pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” delivered, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.“ 

Where … ?

Mountains, Rivers and Lakes

              • ”A Year of Painting Outdoors in Tahoe”
              • ”The Best Things To Do Around Lake Tahoe In The Summer”
              • ”California’s tourism-dependent towns cautiously prepare new marketing for reopening”
              • ”With our ski resort closed, we’re working at a food bank and feeling all the emotions”

Pristine Treks

              • ”National Parks Are Suddenly Flooded with Wildlife. What Happens When Humans Return?”
              • ”Running in the Time of Coronavirus”
              • ”VIDEO: Trio of mountain lion kittens on the prowl in Napa County”
              • ”Hiker In Marin Finds Unexploded, Possibly Historic Ammunition Along Hiking Trail”
              • ”Escapes: Keep the fire for travel burning”
              • ”Why whitewater rafting could be the safest way to a family vacation this summer”

Deserts, Slopes and Ranges

              • “Colorado (Officially) Has a New State Park Near Trinidad”
              • ”The Water Is A Brilliant Blue At Box Canyon State Park, A Refreshing Roadside Stop In Idaho”
              • ”11 Must-See Spots In Sedona”
              • ”Historic New Mexico Road Trip: Santa Fe To Taos”
              • ”Live out your Santorini dreams in this Palm Springs house asking $3M”

Islands and Currents

              • “Mauna Kea has had more than a million deep long-period earthquakes over the past 20 years”
              • ”Hawaii plans to extend stay-at-home measures, travel quarantine until end of June”
              • ”9 Things To Consider Before Booking A Hawaiian Cruise”
              • ”The Pandemic Strands Some Ship Crews at Sea, Others On Shore”
              • ”Transplanting Staghorn Corals Could Help The Species Recover In The Caribbean”
              • ”Hawaii Just Showed Visitors Its Future. It’s Truly Eerie”

PCH Regions

              • “8 Small Towns You Should Visit in Oregon”
              • ”How To Spend A Day In Monterey, California”
              • ”The Best Things To Do On San Diego Bay”
              • ”In California Wine Country, A Family Campground (Plus Lap Pool) – Remodelista”
              • ”Orange County harbor anchorages are packed as boats offer socially distant safe harbors”
              • ”Surfer dies after shark attack off Santa Cruz County coast”

The Tau 12 Months Ago 

“You’re a part of nature, and it will feel better to think and act in accordance with that.” — Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc

Evidence

 Which bits of wisdom were nudging me in that direction?

“5”  Steve Zahn, 51: “If you are working too hard at something, then you’ll become resentful and bitter. To figure out a better, smarter, shorter route is not the lazy thing; rather, it’s what’s best for all.” Scorpio

Trial and error, that’s how I’d describe the ongoing learning process I encounter with the Patreon platform.  Is it ideal?  Hell, no, wait is that bitterness?  

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“3”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “Everywhere you look, you’ll see the attention-seeking traps of our narcissistic age. You are called by modesty and service; in this way, you’ll stand out from the crowd.”  Taurus

Hi, would you mind taking a photo of Emma the Baroness and me?  We don’t want everyone to notice how frequently we’re posing for our selfies.

“5”  Steve Smith, 30; Stevie Nicks, 72: “What task will move the needle for you today? What is the one thing that’s going to make you feel accomplished when your head hits the pillow tonight? Start with that. Anything else is gravy.” Gemini

Not sure I’m looking forward to gravy stains on my pillow, but publishing moves the needle to mix metaphors.

“5”  Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Creation is one process. Analysis is another process. Separate the two, and you’ll be comfortable and focused inside each separate process. This will bring about your best work.” Virgo

Well stated.  Either I’m so analytical about my work that I second, third and fourth guess my creative talent.  Or I’m so scattered following the squirrels and all the distractions of my creative process following my intuition that I have no idea how far off the mark I’ve become.  Wait, what should I do?

“5”  Steve Aoki, 41: “Relationships are collaborative, creative efforts.  Whom you get into a relationship with makes a huge difference.” Sagittarius

If you only knew Emma the Baroness like I do you wouldn’t need this reminder.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines grew from 2663 to 2839.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

    • Just picked up “Bob Dylan In America” by Sean Wilentz.  Maybe because of the subliminal messaging like the times are a changing and the answer is blowing in the wind, but I kinda like Sean’s fanboy becomes music critic becomes historian surrounding Dylan’s life and times. 
    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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S2 E45 — Wildcard What Ifs and Doobie Bros Bias

We’ve grown.  From 1946 this time a week ago to over 2663 followers.  Don’t feel left out. Like, share or join our community to see what you’ve been missing.

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

“5”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “In a sea of retweets and homogenized opinions, you have a chance to put something out into the world that wasn’t there before. People need to hear something that’s not being said. You’re the one to say it.” Taurus

Hi and welcome to Thursday’s Episode 45 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Experiment” on this 14th day of May in the spring of 2020.  

Season 1 and 2 are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E44 — Celebrating Emma the Baroness Tribal Quarantine Style; S2 E43 — See What You’ve Been Missing …; S2 E42 — It Was Short and Sweet, but Heart-Felt

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E45 — Day 45 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E44 — Google Me Some Chopped Liver; S1 E43 — Desperation on Such a Summer’s Day; S1 E42 — Love on the Run

Context

My weekly Patreon publishing campaign continued with a selection of Tau from this week and one from roughly a year ago in this article:

Wildcards? What’s Normal in this Rapidly Changing Landscape?

“Being able to take a long view of things will save you from future discomfort. There are a lot of things you could take on. Consider what it would mean for your next few days and far beyond.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Sean Martin, Express, Image: Getty Images.

The Tau: Week Ending 5/13/20

Tags: Apple, Alzheimer’s, Artificial Intelligence, Brain Implants, Cancer, Climate Change, COVID-19, Fusion, Material Science, Privacy, Technology Integration

Helping you face what’s going on today and creating some of your own if/then decisions. Saving you from future discomfort by considering longer term scenarios.

Important headlines from this week’s stories pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” curated for you, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.”

What if … ?

COVID-19 Phase Two

          • ”Apple to Reopen Some U.S. Stores Next Week” 
          • ”Scientists are drowning in Covid-19 research — this AI could help”

Artificial Intelligence

          • ”Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance” 
          • ”Demystifying Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence”
          • ”DeepMind compares the way children and AI explore”
          • ”Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry—new hardware could curb its appetite”
          • ”5 Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Really Is Going To Change Our World”

No Tears

          • ”A Powerful Model for Understanding Good Tech Integration”

Privacy Hacks

          • ”Hackers sell over 73 million stolen user records on the dark web”

Brainiacs 

          • ”Elon Musk to trial brain implants which may allow quadriplegics to walk” 
          • ”AI Beats Neurologists at Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis”

Climate Ramifications

          • “We can’t self-isolate from climate change’”

Protein Bombs

          • “Immune cells blast infections and cancer with protein ‘bombs’”

  Fusion Radio

          • ”Radio Wave Breakthrough Helps Stabilize Fusion Reactions”

Material Science

          • ”We Might Have Just Found the Next Great Lighting Material”

We’ve grown.  From 1946 this time a week ago to over 2663 followers.  Don’t feel left out. Like, share or join our community to see what you’ve been missing.

The Tau 12 Months Ago 

“Poke around to get to the story behind the story, as jumping to conclusions will surely lead to error.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Evidence

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “It’s once again time to check in with yourself on the higher thinking levels. Stop and ask yourself what you believe. Sure, you’ve done this already, but things have changed, and so have you.” Aries

Thanks for the reminder, with juggling so many initiatives at different stages of development it’s easy to forget what’s important.

“5”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69; Stephen Colbert, 56: “In a sea of retweets and homogenized opinions, you have a chance to put something out into the world that wasn’t there before. People need to hear something that’s not being said. You’re the one to say it.” Taurus

I’m taking this one to heart by claiming my Patreon publication about all the changes we’re facing and what they mean for us.

“5”  Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Confirmation bias suggests that humans tend to believe first and then find supporting evidence second. This order makes it impossible to root out factual truth. Fight the phenomenon. Question your own motives.” Virgo

What’s that old song — people only see what they believe and disregard the rest? The whole point to the first year of my natural experiment is to test out all forms of bias and wonder about what happens in our brain to make us susceptible to confirmation and selection bias in the first place.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines grew from 2300 to 2663.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life  

Long-Form

    • Just picked up “Bob Dylan In America” by Sean Wilentz.  Maybe because of the subliminal messaging like the times are a changing and the answer is blowing in the wind, but I kinda like Sean’s fanboy becomes music critic becomes historian surrounding Dylan’s life and times. 
    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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S2 E43 — See What You’ve Been Missing …

Patreon’s limited editing capabilities suck.  Their format choices totally changes how each of my publications originally appear in my WordPress blogs.  

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

“5”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “There’s no easier way, no shortcut available, no hack or guide that will provide the answer. You just have to find it as you go along. Luckily, this hard way is also the fun way.” Pisces 

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 43 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Experiment” on this ninth day of May in the spring of 2020.  

Season 1 and 2 are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E42 — It Was Short and Sweet, but Heart-Felt; S2 E41 — A Pandemic End to Real Estate and Consulting?; S2 E40 — The Profound Impact of the Pandemic on Nouns

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E43 — Desperation on Such a Summer’s Day; S1 E42 — Love on the Run; S1 E41 — The Dream Was Over, Long Live the Dream; S1 E40 — Nothing to See Here, Keep Moving On

Context

My new end of the week publication habit works.  Here’s what my early experimental attempt for Patreon became:

The Coming Millennial Migration — Will Remote Work Set You Free? 

“More sunsets are caught than sunrises because a greater number of people are awake in the evening than are watching for the break of dawn. Get on an early tract. There’s something spectacular in it for you.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Los Angeles Times, Catharine Hamm, Photo: Yang Lu

The Tau: Week Ending 5/9/20

New horizons. Grab some bucket list ideas to go — for deferred itineraries and remote-enabled resort towns. Curated from stories about local communities stretching along Pacific Coast Highway, in mountain resorts and on lakes, islands and in the great outdoors. 

But, here on the Atoll,  we don’t expect or encourage you to go check them out immediately. Instead we hope our articles inspire your future adventures!

See what you’ve been missing. 

Check out this week’s headlines pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” delivered, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.”

Where … ?

PCH Regions

          • “San Diego mayor: Compliance with new beach rules bodes well for state business reopening”
          • ”Pismo Beach: Where To Eat, Stay, And Play”
          • ”Whale that washed ashore in Ventura County towed out to sea”
          • ”Wineries Sue Over Cannabis Operation”
          • ”The Malibu Beach Inn Is Offering a Unique Social Distance Dining Experience for Mother’s Day”
          • ”Video captures coyote going for a morning stroll by Levi’s Plaza in SF during shelter-in-place order”

Islands and Currents

          • “Hawaii’s Proposals To Safely Reopen Travel…”
          • “I Was Stranded in Hawaii by Coronavirus — and the Magical Islands Completely Stole My Heart”
          • ”Hawaii wants to ensure a sustainable relationship with tourism post-COVID19”
          • ”Hawaii arresting rogue tourists for violating mandatory quarantine”
          • ”30 Best Bucket List Trips For Your Lifetime: Sailing The Hidden Caribbean”
          • ”Here’s how Sandals plans to re-open its Caribbean resorts to guests”
          • ”I’m Quarantined on a Yacht in the Caribbean. It’s Not What You Think”
          • ”Squid are back in abundance along Central California coast”
          • ”On Catalina Island, Unemployment Is 90%. A Local Food Pantry is Making Sure No One Goes Hungry”

Mountains and Lakes

          • ”Why whitewater rafting could be the safest way to a family vacation this summer”
          • ”Prediction tool shows how forest thinning may increase Sierra Nevada snowpack” 
          • “9 Things To Know About The North Lake Tahoe Ale Trail”
          • ”Cute Video: Mama bear rescues cubs, swimming them to safety one-by-one in South Lake Tahoe “
          • ”Introducing The Mountaineers Statement on Climate Change”

Pristine Treks

          • ”Outerbike cancels Deer Valley mountain bike demo event”
          • ”How To Spend A Weekend In Historic Truckee, California”
          • ”This Colorado Doggo Has Hit More Than 5,000 Summits“
          • ”California Snowpack Already Nearly Bare As Drought Worsens”

Deserts, Slopes and Ranges

          • “Western Slope Farmers Forge On Despite Losing 90 Percent of Peach Crop”
          • ”An Ace Hotel Gift Card Is a Win-Win Purchase“
          • ”Live out your Santorini dreams in this Palm Springs house asking $3M”
          • ”Take a Peek Inside Walt Disney’s Former Technicolor Dream House”

The Tau 12 Months Ago 

“You’ve been happy with your choices, but now you’re starting to notice that there are new options on the horizon.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Tags : COVID-19, climate, deserts, horizons, islands, lakes, migration, Millennials, mountains, Pacific Coast Highway, rafting, ranges, regions, rivers, remote, road trips, slopes, sunrises

Evidence

“4”  Steve Zahn, 51: “Pain is a signal. It is possible to feel pain and not be hurt by it. For example, endurance sports enthusiasts may experience this as they push through a workout. Pain is part of the process. Hurt is a judgment.” Scorpio

I’m guessing that pain means frustration on my part.  If so then, yes, it definitely part of the process.  I get that.  There are no short cuts, there is only doing.

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

“4”  Steve Aoki, 41: “You know your limits and your triggers, which makes you more powerful, not less. But take into account that things like that change. You get stronger and braver. Test and push yourself today.” Sagittarius

I detect a theme.  Quit bitching if you’re so powerful.  Push through today.  OK. Got it.

“4”  Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Your confidence comes from a wellspring of integrity. You know what you’ve done, what you have and who you are. You don’t require constant reminders of your greatness or tons of reinforcement to feel good.”  Taurus

Don’t be so sure for this career reincarnation. Some reminders of greatness would be nice.  Or maybe just 500 pounds of reinforcement.

“5”  Steve Nash, 45: “You think about things in a certain way that you may not even be aware of until you express what you’re thinking to a friend. The act of articulating yourself brings about new insights.”  Aquarius

Not only for me, but I noticed this early on in my one-on-one advisory career with “C-Suite” executives.  I put on a brave face before each engagement fearing my lack of answers for someone operating at the top tier of an organization.  Until, that fateful day when I simply asked a VP what she had been doing already about the problem or challenge she faced.  Then, my natural instincts and intuition kicked in.  Get them to tell you and in the telling their answers reveal themselves.

“5”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “There’s no easier way, no shortcut available, no hack or guide that will provide the answer. You just have to find it as you go along. Luckily, this hard way is also the fun way.” Pisces

Theory is one thing.  Explanations and instructions are just that.  Until you take all the teachings and advice and apply them is when the true knowledge is revealed.  No hacks or shortcuts to building your own experience into wisdom.

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines grew from 2,170 to 2300.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life  

Long-Form

    • Just picked up “Bob Dylan In America” by Sean Wilentz.  Maybe because of the subliminal messaging like the times are a changing and the answer is blowing in the wind, but I kinda like Sean’s fanboy becomes music critic becomes historian surrounding Dylan’s life and times. 
    • Saw the movie, didn’t realize that one of my favorite authors, Michael Connelly — his detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch book series and Amazon Prime series — also wrote, “The Lincoln Lawyer” which I just finished. Gotta tell you I can’t not see his lead character (Mickey Haller, Bosch’s half brother) as anyone else but Matthew McConaughey. 

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S2 E39 — The Best Tau for the Pandemic Year, Don’t You Agree?

So, my survival guide for remote workers had already been written, which had been targeted to the knowledge working community (consultants, freelancers and entrepreneurs) who could sell their services to clients which didn’t require their presence 24/7.  Given they were more mobile and could live anywhere, then where do they want to put down roots?

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

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The future that has seemed so hazy now comes into sharp focus. You’ll be approaching work in new ways. While some deals are stalled, other arrangements can be solidified as you wait.” Aries 

Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 39 in Season 2 of  “My Pandemic Year Experiment” on this 2nd day of May in the spring of 2020. 

Season 1 and 2 are a two-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed during the “normal” pre-pandemic and then in this unfolding pandemic year.

Previously in Season Two, the Pandemic Year

S2 E38 — What Should You Do If You Stumble Across Loaded Information?; S2 E37 — How Deep is the Chasm? What Do We Do?; S2 E36 — Turning Lemons into Margaritas

Related from Season One, the Normal Year

S1 E39 — What’s Up with Facebook?; S1 E38 — Day 38 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E37 — Day 37 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E36 — Day 36 of My 1-Year Experiment

Context

Working on the Business — I’d gotten into a publishing groove on Patreon with: 

Today I published a summary of the week just ending on Patreon  and shared the piece on LinkedIn:

Surviving Day-to-Day or Thriving with Big-Picture Insights?

“The future that has seemed so hazy now comes into sharp focus. You’ll be approaching work in new ways. While some deals are stalled, other arrangements can be solidified as you wait.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Michael S. Malone, Scientific American, Image: Getty Images.

The Tau: Week Ending 5/2/20

Discover what you’ve been missing. 

Here are some of this week’s headlines pulled from our daily “Top 30 Digest” curated for you, “Fresh from the Labs. Literally bottled and set adrift from KnowWhere Atoll.”

Helping you face what’s going on and create some of your own if/then strategies.

What if … ?

Trends

COVID-19 Phase Two

              • ”The coronavirus pandemic is getting the ‘total attention’ of the Gates Foundation” 
              • “Google and the Cost of ‘Data Voids’ During a Pandemic”
              • ”Google and Apple Reveal How Covid-19 Alert Apps Might Look”
              • ”How COVID-19 Could Change AR/VR’s Future”

Artificial Intelligence 

              • ”Google medical researchers humbled when AI screening tool falls short in real-life testing”
              • ”Don’t Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It”
              • Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Human Resources (HR) Industry
              • ”US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor”

Deeper Future Horizons

              • ”Hydrogen Industry: The Dawning Of The Hydrogen Economy”
              • “A new machine learning method streamlines particle accelerator operations”
              • ”Who needs a jet? 620 mph Hyperloop train will zoom passengers from Paris to Amsterdam in just 90 minutes”

The Final Frontier

              • ”Space travel breakthrough: Solar sail offers route to stars at one fifth of light speed” 
              • ”The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should. Why?”
              • ”Space Photos of the Week: Polychromatic Views of the Earth”

A special welcome and thanks to 160 new followers in just the past 3 days. Like, share and join our growing community of 2,170 followers to see what you missed.

The Tau 12 Months Ago 

“You’re starting to think of things in their broader context.  New insights come from big-picture thinking.”

Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Tags : Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Bill Gates, COVID-19, Earth, Foundations, Google, Hydrogen Economy, Hyperloop, Machine Learning, Medical Research, Pandemic, Patents, Physics, Science, Space

Evidence

Random ones that make me want to change my sign.

“5”  Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The future that has seemed so hazy now comes into sharp focus. You’ll be approaching work in new ways. While some deals are stalled, other arrangements can be solidified as you wait.” Aries

And so McQueen’s Holiday Tau was just what I needed for this week’s Patreon publication.  How to take advantage of the COVID-19 Pandemic caught the technology community’s disruptive venturing spirit.

“3”  Steve Smith, 30: “Though there’s plenty you can learn about yourself outside the context of a relationship, there are many things you figure out quickly by working and playing with others, like you will today.” Gemini

Getting used to “lock down” as a pandemic prevention, surely tests the boundaries of relationships within your own pod, right Emma the Baroness?

“4”  Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “With all you’ve experienced, you could write a survival guide. You’ll be compelled to help, but you don’t really have to give any advice or instruction to do so. Your example is enough.”  Leo

So, my survival guide for remote workers had already been written, which had been targeted to the knowledge working community who I identified as consultants, freelancers and entrepreneurs who could sell their services to clients which didn’t require their presence 24/7.  Given they were more mobile and could live anywhere, then where do they want to put down roots?  

“4”  Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Sometimes the bumpy roads lead to the most beautiful places. Other times it’s just more rock and dirt and jostling. Take an enjoyable path and the destination will just be a bonus.” Virgo

As in epic awesome road trips in the West, say to some of my favorite towns on this itinerary?

“3”  Steve Kerr, 54: “There is no one better than another, and yet many make easier fits. Of course, fit isn’t everything. Sometimes what you have to grow into or figure out keeps you more interested.” Libra

Just not on the right day.  As it applies to the “Work” — in Live, Love, Work, Play, Invest, and Leave a Legacy subtitle to “The Knowledge Path” series — the best fit means matching the right type of organizational talent culture for you.  And, if you can’t you may determine which stage of growth fits you better.  I’m working on it.

“5”  Steve Aoki, 41: “Your story isn’t one narrative. It’s an ever-evolving work of art that you might tell a totally different way one day to the next. This is one way you’ll exercise creative power over your destiny.” Sagittarius

I can’t tell you how often during normal times I’d have to prepare just what my story was and why I was meeting with someone for the first time.  Was I a career advisor?  Or the chief knowledge officer?  Or the organization development consultant? Or the memoirist? Or the blogger?

“4”  Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “Life is not about stuff, and yet a few choice items can make your world a bit more fun, safe or smooth today. Figure out what you need. You might be able to trade someone for it.” Pisces

Need?  Not much more.  Emma the Baroness and I have surprisingly built a comfortable nest egg.  More travel, maybe but those trips will have to be postponed, right?

What’s Going On …

Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll 

    • @knowlabs followers of one or more of my 35 digital magazines grew from 1760 to 2,170.

Foresight

Quality-of-Life

Long-Form

    • Just picked up “Bob Dylan In America” by Sean Wilentz.  Maybe because of the subliminal messaging like the times are a changing and the answer is blowing in the wind, but I kinda like Sean’s fanboy becomes music critic becomes historian surrounding Dylan’s life and times.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION

The Knowledge Path | Know Laboratories | Knowledge Banking | Knowledge ATMs | Western Skies and Island Currents | Best West Road Trip

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