📝 LIANA BANYAN ARTICLES & PERSONAS REGISTRY

Stories, Signatures, and Publication Strategy

Author: Jonathan Jones, Prime NOID #00001 Created: November 29, 2025

🎭 THE PERSONAS & THEIR ARTICLES

PERSONA 1: “Crewman #6”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & Crewman #6

Reference: Galaxy Quest - Guy Fleegman, the unnamed redshirt who survived

Article: “By Grabthar’s Hammer: Answering the Call Anyway”

Core Message: We’re not ready. The beacons are lit. We’re answering anyway.

Key Quote from Video Script:

“The Beacons are Lit. We’re not really ready, but By Grabthar’s Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, we’re answering the call anyway.”

Article Outline:

1. The moment you realize you’re the expendable one
2. Galaxy Quest as startup metaphor (fake captain, real mission)
3. “Never give up, never surrender” as founder philosophy
4. Why being Crewman #6 is actually the best position
5. The unnamed crewman who survived because he fought anyway

PERSONA 2: “The Guy Who Fought Anyway”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & The One Who Fought Anyway

Reference: The Power of One - PK fighting the system despite impossible odds

Article: “Expected No, Tried Anyway: The Intramural Lesson”

YOUR STORY (From Your Words):

“When making decisions as an Entrepreneur, it’s always a choice between payoff and risk. You have to consider, is this worth it? If it isn’t; don’t. If it is; hold nothing back. What your hand finds to do, do it with your Might.

One of my favorite memories is from college when I represented my social club in intramural games, in a challenge to place softball-sized hollow rubber balls into an institutional sized garbage can placed in the middle of the gym; guarded by two much larger than me (6'2? 6'6?) athletes of local notoriety from competing social clubs.

I, 5'6, feinted left – they both shifted left. I feinted right; again, they shifted to block me (grabbing and wrestling allowed). The crowd of my social club in the stands behind me, the clock running down, I had no other option: I dropped my right shoulder (You should have SEEN THE LOOKS OF OPEN-EYED ASTONISHMENT) and plowed INTO AND THROUGH THEM.

Or, that’s what I tried. They were pretty big, and the best I could do was NOT QUIT and climb them and tip us all forward, as they grabbed me and turned me around so that when all three of us slammed to the ground on our backs, I got the wind knocked out of me.

But my TEAMMATE? In the time I kept the giants busy, he walked over and dropped 6 balls into the goal, 1 more than the other team.

And that’s how we win.”

The Lesson: You don’t have to win. You have to create the opening for someone else to win.

PERSONA 3: “Amateur Engineer”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & Amateur Engineer

For: Technical papers, patent explanations, engineering documentation

Article: “1,200 Prototypes: What Fusion360 Taught Me About Iteration”

Topics for this persona:

• The Tab System mathematics
• Medallion cascade engineering
• Distributed manufacturing network design
• HexIsle architecture
• The Star Chamber verification system

PERSONA 4: “Wannabe Academic”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & Wannabe Academic

For: Economic theory papers, research publications

Articles:

1. “A Considered Approach to Sustained Universal Economic Prosperity”
2. “The Economics of Reciprocity”
3. “The Political Expedition: Exponential Stability Mechanisms”
4. “Mathematical Proofs of the Tab System”

Publication Venues:

• Cephas Press Junket (self-published)
• the2ndSecond.com/cephas-ring (academic access)
• Submitted to: Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan, Stanford Social Innovation Review

PERSONA 5: “Army Ant”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & Army Ant

Reference: The colony mentality - individual sacrifice for collective success

Article: “The Army Ant Philosophy: Why I Give Away My Patents”

Core Message: 53 innovations given to the company, not kept for myself. Because ants don’t hoard - they build together.

PERSONA 6: “The Bridge-Builder”

Signature: Jonathan Jones, Founder & Bridge-Builder

Reference: Your father’s story about the old man building a bridge back

Article: “Building Bridges for Those Who Come After”

YOUR FATHER’S STORY (From Your Words):

“My dad referenced a story of a young man hiking a harrowing trail who came to a difficult stream to cross, with an old man just emerging from swimming across to the other side, who then started building a bridge back the way he had just come, over the river toward the young man.

The young man jumped in and swam through the strong currents to the other side and told the old man he didn’t need any help and asked the old man if he was going the same direction as he to get to the same destination, and when the old man replied yes that he had the same destination goal as the young man, the young man asked him ’then why are you bothering to build a bridge back the way you came? I’m already over here.'

The old man replied ‘yes, you are strong enough to make it on your own, for now. But behind you, there is someone even younger that doesn’t have your strength or experience yet, and I’m building this bridge for them.’”

Application: Every patent, every system, every innovation is a bridge for those who lack the strength to swim… yet.

📚 YOUR STORIES (IN YOUR WORDS)

STORY 1: The Go-Kart Scar (Age 7, Brownsville TN)

“When I was 7 in Brownsville, TN, my father—I told him I want to make a go-kart and he was like ‘well you should plan it out and show me that and I’ll help you do it’ and I said I don’t want to plan it out and he said ‘alright Jonathan, you go ahead and make it, let me know how that turns out.’

My amazing plan—because I didn’t have any tires oddly enough—I started with the wheels because I was going to make them out of the top of the tin cans that the beans came in or coffee or something.

I got the empty can and then I took the knife and then I was stamping stamp stamp stamp all the way around. I’m holding the can and you guessed it—I stabbed my hand while I was taking the tin can lid off.

I have that scar still. After I had stabbed it I took the knife out and I was actually quite interested because there was no blood. I thought ’that’s so weird, am I OK?’ And then I opened it up a little bit because I could see it—just the skin right there and then you can literally see the sinew and the muscle and the bone.

Experience is an excellent and wonderful teacher, but he is a fool who will learn from no other teacher than experience.”

Article: “The Tin Can Wheels: What My Scar Taught Me About Planning”

STORY 2: The Pizza Morale Operation (OCS)

“I’m the morale officer in OCS. We had not eaten for about two days and there had been a lot of physical activity. We’re out in the boondocks of nowhereville but we’re still on post.

I as the morale officer ordered pizza from the civilian city that was miles away. I told him ’look I will pay you whatever if you take our pizza order and bring some drinks—we need some morale and I’m the morale officer, I’m doing my job.’

I spoke to one of our cadre, a Staff Sergeant, and I told him ‘man, you know I’m just doing my job, right?’ And he’s like ‘yeah’ and ‘we can’t really let the rest of cadre learn about this.’

He got the unmarked pizza delivery truck—which was actually a military vehicle—and he covered the pizzas with tarp and brought in the pizzas.”

Article: “The Morale Officer’s Pizza: Creative Problem-Solving Within Rules”

STORY 3: Captain Lindy’s Gortex

“There was a certain captain who wore her gortex jacket. The appointed leader of the hour had forgotten to tell everybody to get their gortex jackets—and then because he forgot to do that but he had a gortex jacket on, she said ’everybody has to be the same—uniformity—so what is it, on or off?’

He’s flustered and says ‘off.’ She said ‘you’re the leader, everybody leave your jackets.’ And then she kept her jacket.

Captain Lindy, that’s right, you did. I was there.

So I’m the morale officer and we go on this thing and it’s raining and it’s cold and man we are cold. The only thing keeping us OK is that we are moving in the dark and then we stop and we’re gonna be stopped there for about an hour and a half.

I put down my gear, told my buddy ’take care of it,’ and I went down the line and I gave everybody morale pills—which were of course Tic Tacs.”

Article: “Morale Pills: Leadership vs. Management”

STORY 4: The Deodorant Flight

“One time at band camp, I booked an expensive flight, rushed to the airport and sprayed myself in the face with deodorant as I was repacking one of the bags so it met weight requirements while the rest of the line waited, mere minutes from takeoff, only to learn as I confidently approached the gate that I had accidentally scheduled the flight for exactly one month later.”

Article: “The Wrong Month: Why I Check Everything Twice Now”

STORY 5: NextAddress.com (2004-2006)

“Around 2004 until 2006 I was building a site called NextAddress.com that used a cool algorithm to embed a new mapping feature called ‘google maps.’

Until in 2005, shortly after Google Maps launched, an enterprising programmer named Paul Rademacher developed a site called Housingmaps.com. He used a programming hack to combine apartment listings from Craigslist with Google Maps.

The integration was not sanctioned by the listing services, but the innovative tool gained significant attention for its user-friendly approach to apartment hunting, and effectively ended the novel value of NextAddress.

Following its popularity, Rademacher was hired by Google to work on the official Google Maps team.”

Article: “When Google Killed My Startup: The NextAddress Story” Reference: Wayback Machine screenshot available

STORY 6: Ylona’s Kitten Proposal

“Ylona had cleaned up her room and made space in preparation for Me and Diana granting permission for her to have a new cat, and made a convincing presentation for the purpose. She made a proposal called ‘Reasons I think you should let me adopt Rocket’, with 10 reasons listed like ‘If my room is messy and not safe for a kitten, I would organize and clean it for him’, with a picture of the kitten currently up for adoption that she had gone online to the pet shelter and found, as well as a picture she drew of him.

Diana listened and saw it all, then gently told Ylona that the answer was no.

Ylona cried during the explanations, and after the last part, she said: ‘So the final answer is no?’ And Diana confirmed that it was.

Ylona cried a little more, and then wiped her tears and said ‘It’s ok. I need to learn through hearing more no’s.’

The reason she was so nervous to say anything to Diana about a cat is that she expected from the start that it would be a no. But that she had to try anyway.”

Article: “Expected No, Tried Anyway: What My 10-Year-Old Taught Me About Entrepreneurship”

STORY 7: The Grocery Pickup Pivot

“When I was about to leave to pick up the very large grocery order, Diana frantically texted me that she accidentally set the pickup time for 9:30 PM not AM.

I said ‘hold on, we got this.’ Because I learned a long time ago to ’never despair at the immediacy of your circumstance.’ If you breathe, take it in, consider, and reset, it will all be good.

Then I ran upstairs, and started talking to Diana by reminding her about how one time I booked an expensive flight… for exactly one month later.

Then I reminded her that we will do the best we can with what we have, NOW, and not stress about what we cannot control.

She laughed, I went to the store and got what we needed, and we rescheduled the normal grocery pickup.”

Theme: “Never despair at the immediacy of your circumstance”

📍 PUBLICATION LOCATIONS

Cephas Ring (Academic Access)

URL: the2ndSecond.com/cephas-ring

Contains:

• A Considered Approach to Sustained Universal Economic Prosperity
• The Economics of Reciprocity
• The Political Expedition
• Mathematical proofs for Tab System
• Virtual Business Incubator explanation

Cephas Press Junket

Purpose: Self-published copies of submitted academic papers

Contains:

• All papers submitted to journals
• Working drafts
• Supporting documentation

Medium Publications

Profile: Jonathan Jones / Liana Banyan

Articles:

• Open Letter to MacKenzie Scott
• Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg
• Expected No, Tried Anyway
• By Grabthar’s Hammer
• Building Bridges for Those Who Come After

✍️ SIGNATURE GUIDE

🎯 ARTICLE PRIORITY ORDER

IMMEDIATE (Before/At Launch):

1. ✅ Open Letter to MacKenzie Scott (Medium)
2. ⏳ Expected No, Tried Anyway (Medium) - Uses intramural story
3. ⏳ By Grabthar’s Hammer (Medium) - Galaxy Quest article

WEEK 1:

4. Building Bridges for Those Who Come After (Medium)
5. When Google Killed My Startup (Medium)
6. The 10-Year-Old’s Proposal (Medium)

ONGOING:

7. Technical papers with “Amateur Engineer”
8. Academic papers with “Wannabe Academic”
9. Series articles with various personas

📎 REFERENCE FILES

• Dad’s recording timestamps: 1:16:34-1:19:04 (long), 1:23:16-1:23:29 (blessing)
• Little Red Hen recording: 4 minutes total
• Wayback Machine: NextAddress.com screenshot
• Ylona’s proposal: Photo available
• Go-Kart scar: Still visible

FOR THE KEEP! 🏰⚡

“What your hand finds to do, do it with your Might.”