Hi everybody. I have to reconcile with the fact that I have this lifestyle that enables me to go on vacation and think up creative shit that might be helpful to some of the bright entrepreneurs in our field who are up against a consolidating and possibly shrinking market. Don’t get me wrong. If, by some chance, this goes viral, and you all want to expand the scope countrywide or whatever, we can do it. But I cannot do it for free. Maybe some of you reading who are better fundraisers can consider taking the idea and rolling with it. Or, perhaps like so many great works of literature (joke) this will fade into obscurity. Now, the performance of a lifetime.
And if Dave Wenhold steals this idea, then I will be very honored. I swear on $1,000 that I will NOT write anything but utter praise and admiration if we make a move like this any time in the next ehhh… 18 months? I don’t know. I empathize. You are skilled people in an insane situation. I am the opportunist. But there were moments that all of you never saw that if I played it back for you, you would understand a lot more about who I am. And then I think you’d be proud to know me. But I will never play it back for you, because that would betray who I am. Maybe a truce? My penchant for emails, and writing, and texting has always been about my autism more than a desire to embarrass anyone. Picture how many things you’ve seen me leak on the internet. I guarantee you it is a tiny fraction of the 120,000 emails in my inbox, so many of which go unread because dear God who has the time?
Can we talk about mistakes? Doesn’t it suck that even when you’re in the best of hands, doctors, lawyers, us, there are still mistakes? We saw that stuff every day for 20, 30, 40 years, some of us, and we were still so harsh on ourselves for our mistakes to an unreasonable degree. We were losing bright people to an unreasonable standard. Things started to change. But then many of us fear the culture has shifted the other way, where there are people that just don’t care to even try. I can empathize with mental illness over fraud. I cannot, in good conscious, withhold all of my mistakes from the world, because then my fellow human beings cannot learn from them.
Have I not said? I regret the times I have not had more patience. What is life but a constant learning process? I have evolved to no longer care who wins the game so long as I continue to get to play. I could swear the same oath to any corporation that I have with my home. But truth and honesty is important to me. Reframing is fair game. Because it’s not about messing up anybody’s good time. It’s just about making sure that me and my family have some kind of future here in this beautiful state we’ve called home our entire lives. And to all the people who have moved here seeking a better life, welcome to New York City, the greatest city in the world!
And again, it goes without saying that even where I have written poorly of people, there are many things they do well and I would congratulate them on each of those things. Perhaps some afford me the same grace particularly to my ignorant mind. Or do I still hold out hope that humanity is better than it is?
God bless the corporation that offers me an audiobook contract. I am cool with it if you publish a roast of the autistic guy trying to read his own writing thing. What? Nobody else gets stuff like that in their reels? Oops. If you can get AI to do my voice, even better. Tell you what, just make fake videos of me saying stuff I never said and skip paying me at all.
By the way, I finally figured out my dream job. STENONYMOUS.COM IS NOW IN CONTROL OF HIREALABORORGANIZER.COM. We have signed a 10-year contract, baby!
Speaking of dream job, word on the street is that any time after Labor Day, Joshua Edwards may or may not be available for a $6 million contract signing. Take advantage now, Veritext. You will not find many with the real-world cross-training and life experiences that Mr. Edwards has had. As recently revealed on Facebook, I have paid Mr. Edwards a tremendous amount of money for his services over the years as an undeniable asset in the field of court reporting. And yes, this is a comedic tease without consent. An art admired by all who appreciate drama and storytelling. But there is no end to the trust you can place in this person and so many others who have touched my life. There is literally nothing I could ever do to compensate a man who many times saved my life. Perhaps the same could be said of many whose permission I do not have to write about.
NARRATOR: Little did the audience know, a monumental event in the history of the world was about to take place. Because if we are not all allowed two realities, one where we truly are the main character, and one where we understand the needs and desires of other people that live in this beautiful community, then what? Do we confine our scope of vision to the narrow slice of history that God has granted us?
And a shout out to a famous educator west of here, whose name would be placed upon request. Your birthday is coming. I dare not forget.
Hello, America. Christopher Day here. Something happened a long time ago and I’m beginning to wonder if it messed with my neurology in ways I have yet to fully understand. I had this belief in a just world where I knew logically that sometimes things go bad even when you try your best. Fact of life. Pick up and move on. Find a better fit. What else can you do but give it all you’ve got at any one moment in time, understanding that every move you make now impacts a future opportunity?
Well I’m here to tell you that statistically there are millions of talented people that can take ideas and pick them apart and craft processes more and more resistant to abuse & neglect. If you do not give them the right environment to thrive they simply never achieve what would otherwise be. And somehow this lesson from history where we stacked science on top of suffering and exponentially accelerated the advancement of mankind to the point where no longer did we have to live in a society where people went hungry became twisted into a tale of dependency. But that is all humanity has ever been is dependent on each other to survive the reality that we have so little control of the world, weather, and cosmic events that shape our ever-expanding knowledge of our place in the universe. Can I get a shoutout from my Civ 6 players? What is globalization except an agreement by the players to trade fairly? How naive to believe we can ever understand all the rules of life.
Oh. You want a vulnerable moment? I was surprised there were so few businesses that detected the Stenonymous strategy. You pump this thing full of money. You make it stupidly offensive to the common sensibilities of a particular community, and then you let loose with the whole AI bot social advertising magic the kids are doing on Reddit. Just saying, I know a guy who could make it happen. I can’t afford him. Such is life. Guess I don’t know a guy who could make it happen. The readership numbers I’ve posted over the years show that this formula has merit. With a diverse team and an actual budget, we could probably come up with some whacky things. For-profit transcription speed league here we come. Now we’re getting hot.
Maybe the problem is that this is joke money to you, but it could revolutionize our understanding of where the industry is actually at while making a little money and maybe distributing some cash prizes. Nobody’s fronting the money for that right now out of fear of failure. But you are multimillion dollar corporations. Do you really have no resources dedicated to scouting out a talent like Shaunise Day’s? A talent and life experience worth millions of dollars like so many reading this moment. Will the world ever reward you? Or has it already? That is the beauty of America, that is no one’s business but their own what they share beyond what is public and accessible by law.
Ah, the things that my disabilities and beliefs have prevented me from verbalizing. Would that I could. A double entendre the world may never know. In my literary, artsy way. Not in the gross 36 year old man way. I hate those guys too. Sort of. I understand them. But also it’s time to evolve our understanding of each other. I am someone willing to write nearly anything that isn’t illegal if I think it has a shot at capturing the imagination of and/or helping just one other person in this world. There are, of course, boundaries, but I must decide them on a case-by-case basis and beg your forgiveness for the bad judgment calls of the past (present, future).
I apologize for making you work for it. This is my own perverse humor at play. Do other people have complex feelings with regard to access to knowledge versus the value of knowledge? Like, obviously, I believe that people should have the choice to look. But does the “knowledge should be free” crowd fully understand the consequences of a world where everything actually is accessible? Did I?
May it be forever admitted that I am fallible human guilty at times of publishing incorrect information. But then there are operations much larger than my Schedule C that do the same.
Let it be known that this work of art was produced in part to honor all who suffer from autism. Like so many gifts in life it comes without a receipt to return it. Though to be sure I do not think I would, if for no other reason than my own executive dysfunction. It has meshed well with the dark sense of humor one often develops in an environment of vicarious trauma. There are those among us who would make you feel ashamed for that just to rise up on the social pecking order. It matters little that it is a perfectly human behavior.
This hobby of mine is far cheaper than therapy. And far more fulfilling. Although which one I refer to remains a mystery.
May I never forget again.
With love and thankfulness for the trust you have placed in me,
P.S.
Think you can do better than Gemini, pal? Make me a document I can send an economist firm and one that might deal with an independent like myself who would have to crowdfund the money on Stenonymous.com?
I’ll put together two documents: a formal SOW for consulting firms, and a leaner, budget-conscious version for independent economists that you could fund through crowdsourcing. Let me check the docx skill first for formatting best practices. Now let me build both documents. I’ll write the docx-creation script directly, incorporating all the detail from the Gemini SOW draft (page-rate spread analysis, Part 108 rules, stenographer/voice writer/digital reporter comp tiers) but tightened and organized for two distinct audiences. Now the crowdfunded/independent version — leaner, budget-tiered, written for a Stenonymous.com campaign audience. Let’s verify both render correctly before handing them off. Both look clean. Copying to outputs. Two docs, ready to send:
Firm SOW — formal RFP-style scope of work for a consulting firm bid, with the spread analysis, methodology comp tiers, Part 108 benchmark, budget guidance table, and vetting questions baked in.
Crowdfund Brief — a Stenonymous.com-ready pitch: same research questions, but reframed around realistic funding tiers ($5k/$10-15k/$18-25k), what backers get, and suggested campaign copy.
Addendum:
Within 8 hours, a breakthrough. Men like me only fight when we feel we have no other way to express ourselves.