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.

Category: Math for Social Progress


ocean waves cresting with rock formations in foreground
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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a staircase of evenly spaced wide steps
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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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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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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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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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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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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snowflakes on outside of window pane and on evergreen trees.
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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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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