Advances in data summarization and presentation has outstripped the average human’s ability to live  effectively with “Flat-Land News.” That is, to admit that most of what passes for “news” is wholly incomplete, lacking of context and riddle with fake “forced-choice” presentation. 

Because it falsely distills complex events into bi-polar choicing that is most often agenda-driven.

At the simplest level, “Should taxes be raised” is an extreme of binary (yet persistent) news polarity.  At some level, supportive facts are offered on both sides.

Yet, at the deep level, there’s far more going on.  For raising taxes in a hyper-complex world results in hyper-complex rippling impacts.

Consequently, high-order manipulators of the “fact field”  proffer “bigger & truer facts” but not reliably “useful” facts.  Despite these shortcomings, they still hold sway. Climate and Trump-hate are only two present examples.  We use illegal immigration as an example in today’s discourse.

The result of “flat-land” news – absent wide contextualization –  is serial sub-optimal governance decisions, financial error compounding, and life-changing oversights such as those recently outlined for subscribers) in the just-completed book The 100-Year Toaster.

Before reading, you may wish to work on serious “centering” of sell.  One suggestion is  Some study of the Hawai’ian art of Ho Oponopono.

Contradictory though it seems, today’s report probes the opposite end of the mental spectrum.  .  Rather than “quieting our data” we suggest a massive reform of what we define as journalism into deeper data relationship analysis.  Think of it as lots more “deep diving”  – sure to scare hell out of the “waders” at the shallow end of the information pool.

A few comments about it in Podcast #9 online here (27 min).

The process may take a long while to evolve.  But rather than become sheep-like partisans, following the sources of greatest hyperbole, human culture may ascend to a new – and better place – where cultural realization can triumph over experts in financialization and political manipulation.

Ah!  An A/B choice, then?

No – since we all zoom-in to the data displays in our minds differently.  It’s a choice range, not an Bushian “with us or against us” idiot-oriented over-simplification.

Confused yet?  Dandy!  We’ll count bodies and market action first thing today. But, after that? We shall propose a NextGen  presentation layer for news and information not adequately transported to the mind by present 2D constructions of  (what rather sloppily) passes for “the news.”

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As the death toll worldwide continues to mount – passing 1,116 on 45,204 confirmed – , we eye the next set of personal escalations.  This morning a look at what we’ve done already that you may wish to implement ahead of further events.

After, some morsels of data – and perhaps a Celebration of Lunation as the markets have now *(at yesterday’s highs) approximately equaled the  minimum 1929 Pre-Collapse Bubble.  We wonder how high is up, after all?  Projections follow.

Unlike Carol King, I won’t tell you ” I feel the Earth, move, under my feet...”

I do, however, have a sense of  slaughter ahead as the “mainly liberal” financial engineers of the NY stripe may soon be “burning down the house” to Stop Trump.

With J. Powell saying “this is unsustainable,” Who needs Molotov’s from the Bernunist when you have Miss March in the wings.  Repo’s Galore is her stage name, I think.

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As we wrap up, we explore solutions using the Global Commons model. As suggested in a phone call this week by my consigliere. Who also contributes some dandy insights into the spread of Wuhan Virus at the top of this morning’s report. 724+ dead now.

Also up is Podcast #8 for subscribers by clicking here.

So – deep insights into Wuhan, the final-final chapter of this serialized book after some other headlines and the week’s charts. which are looking more like 1929 by the day.

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You can’t live 70+ years – filing tax returns for 57 years – and not learn a thing or three about how to make tax-time easier.

Since most of the major brokerage firms will have their data ready for import into  tax software programs in a week or two, I sat down and started the annual process.

Like a lot of small office/home office (SOHO) filers there are some simple steps to  “getting it right” I’ve never written down, before.

We’ll get to it after a few headlines on climate, Trump’s SoU, and a discussion of how the charts are looking…Oh and the blow-out jobs report.

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We have a surprise from us “Hicks in the Sticks” – Tech is losing its Urban bias. Sure there are some drawbacks to remote living, but thanks to technology, we’re catching up fast and the lifestyle rocks.

More detail – and something of a short urban mass migration history – after we run through our usual weekly news post mortem which will include what’s ahead for next week.

Yes, podcast7 (*here) doesn’t show off the time machine project well at all, so next week in pod8 (to come) we’ll have a short course on several related sounds involved along with additional commentary.

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One of the biggest stories of the month – swamped by the District of Circus and the viral news of out China, is  that the World continues effectively in negative rates.

What follows is a roadmap as to how this works and why so many people aren’t understanding the mechanics of what’s ahead.  Gold and oil are screaming “There’s more inflation than recognized.”  So are housing prices.

Before that, however, we’ll first check a few headlines and roll through our ChartPack because it’s a difficult time to keep track of so many moving pieces

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After Pandemic coverage and ‘peachy remarks?”Mobbies:  Hobbies that make money.”

Sure, stocks are up – bigly – but is that really fun?    Today, we look at some of the ways we have tried to make some minor “Funvestments” in life.

And, having done so, I have to say while they haven’t all been winners, the closer I get to the final column, the more perceived value there is in the funvestments compared to most everything else.

We’ll collect some collectable ideas after our usual weekend fare – pandemic and impeachment updats, the ChartPack and Podcast #6 with Chris McCleary on where we are with dreams out on the psychology frontier. 

A nice change-up from pandemics and impeachings, methinks.  Who said “You deserve a break today?”  We like that plan…a lot!

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Since we have house guests until tomorrow, see the exciting spectacle of Ure’s version of brevity this morning…

No podcast – going to make those a Saturday’s only event.

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This weekend, we venture out onto the bleeding edge of psychology. Why?  Chris McCleary, who runs the National Dream Center, a project we cobbled up in 2007 or ’08 is coming for a visit.

Since he has lots of degrees, we’ve got a project in mind that  is frankly mind-blowing.

We’ll go through it, after our usual litany of morning charts, news, and comment.  But then, get your seat belt ready – the short version is on podcast #5 over here – you’re going to need it.

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Been working on some ideas for artificial intelligence (AI) to distill into a spreadsheet to make investment decisions.  Turns out, though, one of the most difficult things to model is how the human brain “creates” ideas. Importantly, there’s an aspect of “randomness” to it.

But, since we have already evolved a model of Life as our Seven Major Systems, there arise many questions about how “bounded randomness”  (or pseudo-randomness) is.

And that has some interesting implications, which we will get into after a few newsy-kind of remarks and our ChartPack.  This morning’s podcast (37-min audio) is here.

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Looking for a simple path to a stress-free life in 2020? Bubba,  we gotcha covered!

First, though, our usual run-down of a few news stories that matter and a longish anti-aging discussion.  From there it’s on to our ChartPack.

The news that matters, you see, may not be Iran, Meghan, or Pelosi.  Could have more to do with with declining rail traffic,. science studying a new “strange Earth currents phenom” and latest evolutionary anti-aging science.

Meghan and Harry, though, is not entirely useless news.  The make a fine Examples o Personally Useless Information…”  More PUI as we drill into it.

To live effectively, tuning-up your BS filters is time well-spent.

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Here’s a trillion-dollar idea for you – free of charge. Complete with some general specification and what such a unit could do for America.

It’s all an outgrowth of our Ultra-Make.com website, which in turn is one of the “last chapters” of the online book for subscribers titled “The 100-Year Toaster.”

I’ll give you all the build specifications for this product (as a marketing exercise) right after our usual morning fare:  A few headlines including the ADP Jobs report just out, plus out ChartPack.

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Turns out (surprising even me) that the final chapter of our “100-Year Toaster” book is not only a radical manufacturing idea, but a full-on website and business model, as well.  Who would have suspected?

Our “big project” for 2020 is to release a new kind of business model into the wild. Today, we take the covers off a new idea that has world-changing potential.

As background, remember our concept “The Public Design Library?”

The idea we had and laid out fort subscribers 12-years ago has effectively arrived.  See Peoplenomics report 04/27/2008  This week’s report “Micropreneuring and the Future of Mass Customization” gets me to inventing the “Public Design Library”

We’re fairly pleased to have gotten some discussion going and to see that outfits like Yeggi.com and Thingiverse are now filling the void that we proposed back in ’08.

Now, it’s time to “kick the future in the ass” again…so we will lay out the Ultra-Make project.  I’ll hit a few points in today’s podcast, too.

After the headlines, ChartPack, and noodles-on-the-fly…which is what we do around here.

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