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A hand with long fingernails holds a string that is wrapped around the fingers and extends upwards out of frame.

What Motivates The Height Of Our Potential Energy

In Math for Social Progress, Math for Yourself

5 Min Read

a wide staircase made up of wood and stone steps that are in parallel and three banisters that are in parallel.

Looking For The Vanishing Point In Parallel Paths

In Math Basics, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

6 Min Read

A sticker on top of a suitcase that says Reading Is Freedom.

The Value In Free

In Math Basics, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress, Math for Yourself

9 Min Read

An empty rectangular bin

Measuring A Relationship By Its Dimensions

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Yourself

7 Min Read

The torso of a person strumming on a guitar

Give Me All Your Forms of Vibration

In Math Basics, Math for Relationships, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

one earring with a triangle hanging from the bottom of it.

A How-To On Making Triangles Mutually Beneficial For All

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

5 Min Read

A hand with a graphical tattoo on it, resting on a lap of a person whose legs are in the sand.

The Complex Sensitivity of a Strange Attractor

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

6 Min Read

One set of train tracks heading straight forward then curving left.

What’s My / Who’s My / Where’s Your Line?

In Math Basics, Math for Social Progress, Math for Yourself

8 Min Read

Three 1950's clocks hanging on a wall.

Shaping Your Time

In Math Basics, Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress, Math for Yourself

7 Min Read

An Amuse-Bouche of Time

In Math for Yourself

2 Min Read

Tattoos of mathematical morphisms on a woman's upper arm.

Morphisms In The Category of Real Life Relationships

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

5 Min Read

A measuring tape held up to the side of a mattress on a bed.

Deciding On The Value of Measurement

In Math Basics, Math for Social Progress

7 Min Read

Flashlight beam on a wall in the shape of an ellipse.

When The Shape Of An Ellipse Can Be Super

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

A cable in the shape of a loop lying on top of a round tabletop.

Positive (Loop) vs Negative (Loop): A True WTF Story

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

6 Min Read

A cardigan on a hanger that has yarn loop closures.

Taking Control of Your Information Loop

In Math Basics, Math for Business, Math for Relationships

5 Min Read

A forearm with a tattoo of mathematical harmony and the hand holding up two fingers

The Math Path From Harmony To The Cosmos

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

6 Min Read

Overhead view of a packed crowd along a waterfront.

The Limits of Mathematical Equality

In Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

7 Min Read

A lounge chair with a curved backrest and curved seat.

Throwing A Curve

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

5 Min Read

St. Johns Bridge in Portland Oregon

Symmetry! In! Space!

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

7 Min Read

Side view of crowd at small concert venue with band on stage

Free Falling Into Sync

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

7 Min Read

Scaling Familiarity With Self-Similarity

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

5 Min Read

Software dongles consecutively attached together

Chaos Is Just A Misunderstood Twerp

In Math for Business, Math for Social Progress

6 Min Read

An empty glass on a counter with herringbone pattern on a wall in the background and the edges of a few wooden cutting boards

Zero Got Muscle

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

5 Min Read

Close-up of a person's hands as they paint their nails with nailpolish

The Transformation: From The Diaries of An Isosceles Triangle

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

5 Min Read

A clothing rod packed with shirts on hangers

To Be Free or To Be Bound: That Is The (Variable’s) Question

In Math Basics, Math for Business, Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

6 Min Read

View of a major league baseball stadium from the left field seats.

Fielding Can Be Multidimensionally Overwhelming

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

A Siamese kitty cat curled up with their paw over their face.

Sometimes I Feel Like A Logarithm

In Math Basics, Math for Relationships, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

A photo of snowflakes on a window and some pine trees in the distance, looking out from the inside.

Fractalicious. Rhymes with Delicious.

In Math for Social Progress

5 Min Read

A photo of a pendulum in mid-swing as it hangs from a persons hand.

A Round of Applause For The OG Swinger: The Pendulum

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

Shoreline of an ocean beach and waves

Don’t Go Changin’ That Invariant

In Math for Relationships, Math for Yourself

6 Min Read

Let’s Get Into Harmony

In Math for Business, Math for Relationships

7 Min Read

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My Ideal Beer Buddy is an Integer

4 Min Read

A pink notepad with a hand holding a pen that just finished wirting the math ematical symbol for the word 'therefore' and the word MATH in capitals.

A Memorandum on Pop Math

In Math Basics, Math for Yourself

5 Min Read

Photo of a tattoo on a forearm that is the word GO in capital letters.

Go Ahead, Give It A Lil’ Shove

In Math for Relationships, Math for Social Progress

4 Min Read

black and white version of the Temperance card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck of a person pouring liquid from one receptacle to another.

Finding Your Whole Equilibrium

In Math for Business, Math for Social Progress, Math for Yourself

5 Min Read

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