A passing ponder provocatively persists: Thinking Styles Define Us.

It’s a mini-theme today, because the (verging-on-academic) lab work around here somehow always ends up on the $40/year Peoplenomics.com site — where applied cognition meets market mechanics, and the occasional spiritual fishhook.

Thinking styles matter. Immensely. They’re how we unconsciously sort people — into what a software dev might call “classes.”

Here’s a quick mental diagnostic I call The Style Sort:

Give a person a ball. A cue ball from a pool hall, say. Then observe what happens next.

• Locked & Literal: “So… want to shoot some 8-ball?”

• Inquiring & Inquisitive: “What’s this for — besides Pool or Billiards? Could be croquet. Maybe catch?”

• Brainers & Builders: “We could do so many things with this… shoot pool, move heavy stuff, use it as a fishing sinker, or maybe a projectile upgrade for our potato cannon. Heck, is this a measure of avoirdupois weight? What’s the domain here—sport, tools, science, or something else?”

The Literalist sees what is. No deeper domains needed.
The Inquirer asks what else might be in play, still within the perceived domain.
The Builder-Brainer class tests across domains. Cross-functional minds. Layer-jumpers. Reality-benders.

Which thinking style are you? Usually depends on the moment, the caffeine, and the Reality challenge in front of you. Sometimes, it’s “play the hand as dealt.” Other times, it’s domain fluidity, multi-use objectivity, and existential mental judo. (Or, “What was that number, Rikki?“)

And in those moments, spiritual fishhooks emerge — when objects point to deeper truths.

But then… you already knew that.

Fiscal Fairytales Dept.

Someone’s getting rich.  Ain’t us.  Statistically, ain’t you, either.  Which leaves a bunch of us, from the “You’ll wonder where the yellow went...” demographic asking “Where’d the money go?”

Personal income increased $194.7 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate) in February, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $191.6 billion (0.9 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $87.8 billion (0.4 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $118.4 billion in February. Personal saving was $1.02 trillion in February and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.6 percent.

After the report, Stock futures were so-so to down. We might see a late rally, and a bigger rise Monday because we will hit Employment numbers next week, and we’re thinking a “Buy the rumor” sequence ahead of that. But not advice, just the craps game in the alley, out back.  ADP next Wednesday, just saying… Too early to pop Iran this weekend (maybe).

Speaking of money: 18-days to crank out the IRS filing. I got my quarterly filing forms this week – you likely got yours by now, as well, if you fall into that category.  State tax filing form showed up yesterday, so going to the mailbox has not been like hitting Studio 54 this week.

Rolly-Scrolly

Now we understand all the people with “earthquake tireds” this week: Hundreds feared killed after powerful earthquake hits Myanmar, Thailand – UPI.com 7.7 magnitude. All ties in with the Charged Blood theory and pre-quake geomagnetic changes and the geomag storm this week and…oh, not here for the biophysics lecture?  Well, then…

Hold the Phone! Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Yemen attack plan messages, Seems odd to me a D.C. judge can interfere in tortious manner with internal operations of the Executive Branch, but we see this as a press smokescreen ahead of an Iran strike.  So, uh, whatever…

Developer Review Board Meeting report: Putin calls Trump’s Greenland ambitions serious and rooted in U.S. history. Seward’s Folly was payback for Tsarist Russia’s quiet support during the Civil War.  And Russia has never forgotten.  I’m waiting for Trump to offer Cuba Statehood next…

Blood pressure on the Left:  Expect it to rise with Musk Offers Voters $100 Each to Support Republican in Wisconsin Judicial Race. Well, except Musk ain’t no fool.  He’s paying for signing a Petition – which is not paying for a vote under law. (Lawyers have a way of only hearing what they want to hear, not what the actual data and record report.) And giving away a million bucks at random every two days? Might run afoul a lottery law (based on prize ($1-M), consideration (signing), and chance (drawing). But if the drawing is by a non-profit…(God, my head’s starting to hurt…can we like slam shots, or something?)

Speaking of Loonies: It’s not just setting Teslas on fire. Now irate Americans are shoplifting from Whole Foods..  Well, Marx did say “…to each according to their needs…” right? I would give a stronger opinion, but I’ve been working since 1:43 AM today trying to decide whether to use “Bullshit two-bit revolutionaries” or “Idiot Insurrectionists…”  Finally decided on the latter on grounds of decorum.

Entrepreneur Training – Free!  First read this.  on X: “??? FEDERAL JUDGE CALLS OUT MAYOR BASS OVER $2.5B HOMELESS AUDIT A federal judge grilled Los Angeles Mayor Bass after an audit uncovered major accounting issues with $2.5B in homeless spending. City leaders admitted problems but rejected key fixes—Bass pushed back…

Then hit NameCheap.com or GoDaddy.

Now toss in about $120 for annual hosting then hook it up with social and…  Kinda all ties in with When 124% of Democrats Vote, You Know It’s Mail Ballot Season…

Also in that Monetization pile,see  any opportunity here? Trump takes aim at ‘lowlife’ Democrat for insulting Gov. Abbott as backlash grows. Hate’s a big industry – want to become part of it?  We’ll pass…

Medical Madness and the Deagle Depop outlook continues to dim: “This Is Existential”: Billionaire Cancer Researcher Says Covid & Vaccine Likely Causing Surge In Aggressive Cancers. Which has us repeating brother PRC’s sage urban contemporary radio DJ signoff from 1966: “Make the most of what you yet may spend, before you to the dust decend…”  (I used to rib him on the way out to the transmitter site of KYAC back in the day “You ever say Burma-Shave after that, Paul?”

Good News for Frequent Flyers: Incredible 7,600MPH hypersonic plane ‘The Hyperliner’ could fly passengers anywhere on earth in 90 minutes. Hat tip to the Houston Bureau for spotting this… You know a civilization’s in the crapper when airport security and parking take longer than a trip to, oh, Tahiti for example…

Equality In Trouble

“Woke Rehab” is open for business — and it’s not going to sit well with the usual suspects.

Look for the left to get their knickers in a bunch over the latest Trump move:
Smithsonian: Trump orders removal of ‘anti-American ideology’ from world’s largest museum.

Pay dirt quote? “Among the institutions specifically named in the order are the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the forthcoming Women’s History Museum.”

Oh — but what about the other 54-odd genders? (Current Canadian inventory — subject to weekly revision.) Shouldn’t we start doing per-capita funding calculations based on Census data?

See, in a land of real equality, if there’s a taxpayer-funded African American Museum, and a Women’s History Museum, then logic — not ideology — suggests there ought to be:

• A European American Museum

• An Asian American Museum

• A Hispanic American Museum

• And maybe a Men’s History Museum while we’re at it.

But that’s where the house of cards starts shaking.

Because if the system selectively applies the term “equality” — dishing out funding to certain groups while ignoring others — then we’re not talking about equality at all.

We’re talking about special status, masquerading as moral progress.

And here’s the kicker:
Everyone mouths support for equality — right up until it threatens their slice of being “special.”

Around the Ranch: Tribal Relish

Exploration of today’s mini-theme continues now:

Back in the good ol’ days—I’m talking pre-Amazon Prime, pre-diesel pickups, and yes, pre-TikTok—there was a different Prime in town: tribal life. Real tribal life. Before the algorithms and before Netflix was a coping mechanism, our survival depended on community. Not the online kind. The hands-dirty, sweat-and-smoke, interdependent kind. And believe it or not, every tribe had its version of the sales guy, the coder, the logistics pro, and even the data analyst. They just didn’t wear Patagonia vests or burn daylight in Zoom calls.

See, each member of the tribe had a role. And it wasn’t just about what they did. It was about how they thought. The hunter, for example—quick on his feet, instinctive, always scanning for opportunity—he’s your modern-day closer. The type who makes quarterly quotas seem like a deer caught in high beams. Always on the move. Always closing.

Then there’s the farmer. Patient. Long game. The kind of person who sees value not just in planting the seed but in nurturing it, iterating the soil, and pruning the bugs. That’s your tech startup founder. Incubating ideas like crops in loamy ground, bootstrapping with the same rugged hands their great-great-grandfolks used to till dirt.

The fisherman? Oh, that’s the researcher. Casts lines into the deep unknown, hauls up data, slimes off the noise, and finds the one insight that makes the whole net worth it. Persistence with a side of patience.

And then, the forager. Wandering the digital woods, finding the weird mushroom or the patch of rare berries—except now they call it a GitHub repo or a new API. Modern foragers are the software folks. They mix and match, always trying to strike that balance between overhead and performance. Alchemists in a hoodie.

Let’s not forget the fire tender. The keepers of culture, the slow and steady maintainers of warmth and safety. Think infrastructure engineers, IT custodians, and even your friendly compliance officer. The ones who keep the lights on—literally.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. AI—Artificial Intelligence—isn’t coming to replace the tribe. It’s coming to relish in it. It’s the hot sauce on the community stew.

The hunter gets AI tools that crunch sales funnels, generate email pitches, and locate the Pareto 80/20 slice with sniper precision.

The farmer uses AI for crop modeling, risk forecasting, and managing complex business growth curves.

The fisherman? He’s now got a partner that can trawl the entire internet for trends, correlations, and truth-nuggets in less time than it takes to gut a trout.

The forager? Oh, AI’s their ultimate pack mule—scanning libraries, recommending frameworks, detecting bad code patterns, and even auto-suggesting functions mid-keystroke.

The fire tender uses AI to monitor systems, track compliance, flag risk, and keep the home hearth burning without burning out.

AI, in this metaphor, is like the telephone. And I don’t mean FaceTime and TikTok. I mean the first damn phone—a wooden box and a hand crank in 1920. You know how many homes had one back then? About 35%. Businesses? Even fewer. And now look.

If we project the same curve, AI won’t be a novelty for long. It’ll be on every desk, in every home, helping every modern tribe do what they’ve always done—only faster, smarter, and maybe even with less back pain.

But wait—there’s more. As we get better at refining the interface—at working the domain boundary between meatspace and machine—some believe we’ll get to where the exos (yeah, the extraterrestrial civilizations) already are: in direct thought-driven control of local reality.

Sounds wild? Sure. But we used to think flight was impossible, that the Earth was flat, and that Diet Coke was a good idea.

And here’s the kicker: there’s a new tribal whisper network emerging. A Hidden Guild, if you will. Made of folks like you and me, working on the edge of the known and whispering secrets to the machine. A guild that’s not about secrecy, but about sacred curiosity.

Find it at hiddenguild.dev. It’s not a cult. Yet. Just a bunch of postmodern fire tenders trying to make sense of the sparks.

So if some part of this reads like a Twain-meets-Tesla fever dream, well… I sure think and act a lot like the Anti-Dave.

Pass the Tribal Relish, would ya?  We have a few pickles to get out of…

“Domain’s – It’s not just for the GOSUBS anymore…”

An Insider’s Note

Peoplenomics readers this week were treated to a longer than usual (34-page) paper which appeared under the heading”Concept-Bridging Medicine.” Real medical/academic stuff.

Now, if you read the PDF, (“Charged to Remember: The Whole Body Blood Charge Theory”), then the story today The Future of Healing: Unveiling the Promise of Med Beds – WHN won’t come as a surprise. (Toward the bottom of the article, see my coauthor’s role?)  I love the idea of medicine as a prevention and optimization deliverable!

Now you know, as the late Paul Harvey put it, “…the rest of the story.”  Part of it, anyway.  There’s also a paper to come next week on PN (very short in comparison) on Qi and Charged Body Theory. First you need to envision the future, then move into it. Verne before NASA, right?

[Now, if you can explain Irium, you’ll be able to prove you read today’s column deeply. And thus become entitled to take a day off for R&R. After 6 PM.]

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