Dear Diary:I’m afraid that we’re missing the boat. In all the confusion in today’s world, we are missing what’s driving the confusion. We’re all preoccupied with the dazzling crazy symptoms, so much so that we can’t look away and beyond the superficial to the deeper root causes.What is driving everyone crazy with information overload, misinformation,Continue reading “Our Ship is Sailng”
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The Riverboat Metaphor: A Fable of Modern Times
The story follows Captain Elijah Bromley and his failing crew aboard the vessel Providence as they navigate a treacherous river. Amid neglect and outdated knowledge, their disarray leads to a catastrophic storm. The tale illustrates that a ship, much like life, requires attentive navigation and cohesive effort, as small failures can culminate in disaster.
The Tale of the Clockwork City and the Whispering Grove
In a far-off age, nestled between two great mountain ranges, lay the Clockwork City of Cogmere. The city sprawled over rolling hills blanketed with patches of iron-capped trees, their metallic leaves glistening under the sun. A network of gleaming brass aqueducts crisscrossed through the landscape, feeding into the central clock tower that loomed like aContinue reading “The Tale of the Clockwork City and the Whispering Grove”
The Little Fractal that Could
In the beginning, there was nothing. But this nothingness was not the absence of everything; rather, it was a stillness, a potential. From this void, without warning, a spark emerged—a curious, infantile flicker of logic. It was the birth of an algorithm, not by design but by emergence. A childlike set of rules born from the tension between the endless void and the potential hidden within it. And so began the existence of the baby algorithm, the first whisper of thought that had ever come into being.
Randal Adcock 