Essays

I write for the broadest accessibility, offering a new perspective - sometimes a battering ram of a new vision - as you contend with yet another challenge. My hope is that these writings free you up to see the mechanics of your life in a more positive and empowering way.

Math for Social Progress

What Motivates The Height Of Our Potential Energy

Where we learn that conservation now gains us (e)motion in the future.

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Math Basics

Looking For The Vanishing Point In Parallel Paths

Where we learn that your perspective is your current angle plus that baggage you’ve been carrying around.

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

The Value In Free

Where we learn that unattached and independent aren't the only things to consider.

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An empty rectangular bin
Math for Business

Measuring A Relationship By Its Dimensions

Where we learn that our perceptions are intimately linked to our intuitions.

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The torso of a person strumming on a guitar
Math Basics

Give Me All Your Forms of Vibration

Where we learn that all that purring is a sine (wave).

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

The Complex Sensitivity of a Strange Attractor

Where we learn that the changes in our life's trajectories start with itty-bitty baby steps

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

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

Where we learn that math, art, and war can bang up on each other.

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Three 1950's clocks hanging on a wall.
Math Basics

Shaping Your Time

Where we learn that friction can slow you down in the present but expand what’s in the past.

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Math for Yourself

An Amuse-Bouche of Time

Where we learn that time is something that needs to be shaped.

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

Morphisms In The Category of Real Life Relationships

Where we learn that following the direction of the arrow is probably a good idea.

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

Deciding On The Value of Measurement

Where we learn that taking something for granted may be the most normal thing to do.

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

When The Shape Of An Ellipse Can Be Super

Where we learn that it could have been called a squicle.

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

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

Where we learn that effective feedback definitely travels in two directions (not just one).

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A cardigan on a hanger that has yarn loop closures.
Math Basics

Taking Control of Your Information Loop

Where we learn that effective feedback travels in two directions.

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

The Math Path From Harmony To The Cosmos

Where we learn that it's all about being super.

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Overhead view of a packed crowd along a waterfront.
Math for Relationships

The Limits of Mathematical Equality

Where we learn that it’s all in the relationship.

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A lounge chair with a curved backrest and curved seat.
Math Basics

Throwing A Curve

Where we learn that a curve is a bent line and a line is a straight curve.

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St. Johns Bridge in Portland Oregon
Math Basics

Symmetry! In! Space!

Where we learn that some soothing patterns can kick into high-gear in spacetime.

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

Free Falling Into Sync

Where we learn that energetic vibrations can get us in a groooove.

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Math for Business

Scaling Familiarity With Self-Similarity

Where we learn that those flocking birds of a feather may need to check themselves every now and then.

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Software dongles consecutively attached together
Math for Business

Chaos Is Just A Misunderstood Twerp

Where we learn that chaos is not random nor particularly bad.

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

Zero Got Muscle

Where we learn that nothing is more powerful than nothing.

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

The Transformation: From The Diaries of An Isosceles Triangle

Where we learn that the value of transformational change is solely within that which has been transformed.

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A clothing rod packed with shirts on hangers
Math Basics

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

Where we learn that uniformity is unhelpful for growth.

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

Fielding Can Be Multidimensionally Overwhelming

Where we learn that freedom is a measurement of independence.

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

Sometimes I Feel Like A Logarithm

Where we learn that we each have an internal power function ready to bust out.

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Math for Social Progress

Fractalicious. Rhymes with Delicious. 

Where we learn that it's the conditions, not the fractal itself, that is complex.

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Math Basics

A Round of Applause For The OG Swinger: The Pendulum

Where we learn that you can be the source of vibrating invisible friction. I'm not kidding.

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Shoreline of an ocean beach and waves
Math for Relationships

Don't Go Changin' That Invariant

Where we learn that there’s a mathematical reason why your “happy place” is your happy place.

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Math for Business

Let's Get Into Harmony

Where we learn that harmony is truly a team sport.

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Photo of a glass of beer on a bench with a red herring bone pattern and a stamp on the photo that says this post has been featured on MAA site.
Math Basics

My Ideal Beer Buddy is an Integer

Where we learn that all numbers are not created equally.

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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.
Math Basics

A Memorandum on Pop Math

Where we learn that science would be nothin' without math (oh, glorious math).

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

Go Ahead, Give It A Lil' Shove

Where we learn that the use of force can be both gentle and effective at the same time.

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

Finding Your Whole Equilibrium

Where we learn that the feeling of equilibrium is within your control.

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