Can we now model our life’s future with AI?  Yes, seems so – we have just done it.  When I wrote my recent book “Doctor Between Your Ears – Practicing Practical Longevity” – I didn’t have any way to validate all of our operating assumptions as we cobbled up an integrated approach to life extension.

However, with the dawn of consumer-accessible AI platforms, we are starting to glimpse at protocols with off the shelf vitamin supplements that hold the possibility of dramatic lifespan – and healthspan – improvements.

This is particularly important to me because I seem to have parted ways with a long-time friend who didn’t take kindly to my strong beliefs in supplements as a path to age extension coupled with a high level of skepticism of mRNA beta testing on large populations.

The data – and we’re mindful that AI can be really off-base sometimes – suggests that there is a path for Elaine and me to live out another 40-50 years.  With me at 76 and Elaine on short-final to 82, those are almost freaky results.

Like “Optimized Healthspan with Protocol: 127 years → Final Healthspan with Lifestyle Improvements: 145 years.”

Needless to say, I’m starting to like my new AI modeling skills. So, this morning – after we get through the charts – we will not only show you how we got there so you can do some modeling on your own.

This is not medical advice.  But, it’s got some real Fountain of Youth potential and we’re at an age where a drink or two of that elixir has definite appeal. OK, a few hours banging GPT isn’t a slog through Florida’s jungles, but fewer poison arrows?

Before we do that, there’s this inflation report just out to deal with…

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Has the Market called SB59’s outcome with the weak close Friday? And are there parallels between Trump ending runaway bureaucracy and the collapse of Chinese Civil Service at the end of the Qing Dynasty?

We think the answers are Yes to both. But the details? Well, that’s what the 50-yard seats around here are all about.

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Our 20+ years of downsizing is certainly making sense as the world changes. When we moved “out to the woods” people had this ‘tude like “What kind of people run away and live in the woods?”

Today, with the coming of a possible tariff war, inflation causing the Fed to walk-back its “more cuts” nonsense, the real value of living a debt-free life are just starting to appear.

And it all has to do with work, working for the Man, an being able to have enough leftover on payday to make something pleasurable of your life.

So we begin this morning from the ADP Jobs report which follows the weaker than expected Labor JOLTS report Tuesday. Then we get into how the charts are looking and THEN we will slide into the Downsizing book.

Which – and this is almost funny – I had forgotten I’d already written a couple of chapters on – so we will finish serializing that one before resuming the People Are Products book. (Whew!)

Seat belts on?

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We will know (for sure) tomorrow.  But one thing seems clear: our models of the financial future are poised for a major decline in the next week or two.

Not that it will happen: No one knows the future.  But money does call the tune, so should be amusing to see what the “bid is.”

A few headlines but the real work is in the ChartPack today. When in doubt? BrainAmp.

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This is what happens when you run afoul lessons in my recent book “The 100-Year Toaster.“  Companies make decisions as they mature to increasingly benefit executives and shareholders while the original Customers get screwed. I could insert a book-length treatise on this cyclical aspect of the SDLC, but you wouldn’t read it, so where is the gain?

Much of the time, things roll along for several iterations of corporate-centered decision-making, but in the end, the will of the Customers will prevail. Their needs will be met.  Or, they will move on. Microsoft is at such a “soft knee” of future right now.

This is a tale involving the guts of computer programming. And how demanding a particular piece of physical hardware (TPM) will likely – over time – merely speed up the process of proprietary operating system declines.

If it evolves (as we expect) it will be driving more transitions to Linux and OpenSource.  Still, at its core, it’s because the implicit 100-Year Toaster rule (that you don’t screw the people who put you on the map) was first deprecated and then taken out back for a smoke at the wall.

A few headlines and sizing up the Chinese A.I. stock market jitters – along with the U.S. Fed decision this afternoon in our ChartPack, too. 24-charts for you this morning.

Between which, we will be noodling whether “giving MSFT more time before reformatting our stack of i7 non-TPM Win10 machines to Linux” is merely Fool’s Hope.

Mouse click speeds and my number of typo’s per minute couldn’t give a rip, one way or the other. Which is a terrible Big Truth for marketers to face…

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Ah, the headlines – sounds like government waste.  But today we have a dandy example of weaponized accounting to kick off the neurons.

And, after that, we’ll consider the odds of a major downside Monday which floated to the top of today’s ChartPack.

Now toss lightly with a sprinkling of politics and…gee, looks like the chemistry and water treatment term “settling time” for a change.

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Can we learn something about markets from noticing how people “forget” things?  Over a hundred years ago, some basic research into human psychology laid some important groundwork.  Which we rip through, helped by our A.I. accomplice (research helper).

This is a neat bit of research because it points out one of the more promising branches of A.I. deployment. Namely, how humans can find a great deal of “tillable soil” by focusing less on silver bullet (singular) solutions (to all that ails us). Instead, we hope there’s much more to be “deep learned” from exploring interdisciplinary contexts and learning templates.

Also today, the ChartPack looks at how the Day After Biden worked out in markets. Not much grieving, by the look of it.  But the Ebbinghaus/Ure work has thrown off a very useful work product – a new way of looking at markets – in the ChartPack…

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Or, how an obscure paper on complexity in computer programming and committee generation showed us what to expect in post-fire California.  Yep, a big one to wrap our heads around. because this one defines a great deal of what to expect in the modern world.

Toss in the market results in the extensive ChartPack, and certainly, a good time will be had by all…

If you are into practical implicates of socio-cybernetic modeling, then partner, this one’s for you.

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In our Focus today, a discussion of how to improve personal decision-support.  See, all of us who are life-long learners sometimes lose focus on the importance of “personal product development.”

Before we tackle that, however, Consumer Prices just out. And yes, they’re up.

In the ChartPack today ventures into financial pugilism as the Future will “duke it out” with Inauguration this coming Monday.

There’s a lot to weigh in here, so let’s start with the anchor..

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Not widely mentioned anywhere is that this Future was clearly seen almost a month ago. While there are many technologies that presently “look at Future” the success I speak of was specifically via remote viewing.

Plus, with the market weakness Friday, a study of our ChartPack today will be most interesting as well.

A number of headlines – though you can pick these up many places – are also worth a mention not for their specifics, so much as how they begin to weight the future into certain potential outcomes.

With that, pour a cup and let’s dig into it.

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A rather startling chart in this morning’s ChartPack series.  As we explore a line-up with the prototypical 1929 extreme blow-off and present day market behaviors.  We’ll outline what could be a financially devastating remainder of 2025.

TMB versus MMB. Yeah: Trump Means Business versus Money Means Business.  As long as it’s the War Party’s wars and pandemic plans.  Just freaking dandy.

Still, we pause long enough in our “twice weekly Devolution checks” to offer another chapter in our latest book.  On the art of Downsizing,

But even before that joy and partying breaks out (12 to go!) there’s still this matter of financial collapse and the crater in the JOLTS report ahead of the just out ADP Jobs report.

Oh, and a dilly of a ChartPack, if I do say so…The coming year as the potential to rival the slide into the Great Depression and we have a couple of charts that illustrate that risk.

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We could title this morning’s remarks something generic. Oh, like “How the World really works.” We might do that because how many people would either read (or absorb) a report titled…

“Transactionally-linked, Dynamical Business Model Behavior Using Anomalous Technologies Under Semi-Hierarchical Social Constraints.”

Yeah, it’s a mouthful and a mind full.

Yet, strangely – and this does get strange, 2025 appears to be the year that enough subsections of Ground Truth are being released that a cohesive patchwork of “interlocking conspiracies” might reveal themselves to be operating.

Other than meaning “All the Decks are Stacked” for small “investors” there are lots of other considerations, as well.

A few headlines will warm us up, but these are necessary because they are the telemetry of the (hidden) Dynamical Business Models.

We present this as a “slow but short read.”  Don’t be in a hurry to read through this morning’s report.  Take your time and play with the concepts as we run through them.

Still too obtuse?

Well, how about something shorter?  How’s this for a title, then:  “Understanding Linked Conspiracies.”

Better?

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This being a holiday, we will be focused mainly on the ChartPack. But we do have a few goodies…  This is the day of remembering what we’re doing and what Life is all about.

While it may sound a bit like Chairman Mao’s criticism-self-criticism, the modern student of management science will find many templates in the corporate world as well.

Our favored approach is pretty simple:  Review the data, compare these with last year, and – having identified gaps – work out a plan to close them in the coming year.

It’s not hard…until, that is, you get around to actually doing it.

Plus, we will share from recent videos we have been taking in that may improve other parts of your life.

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