Several people have told me they experience my thinking as unusual, labeling it as “super smart” or suggesting that some of my musings feel abstract or difficult to grasp. What feels like complexity to others often feels like pattern recognition to me - an ability to notice connections across systems. Humans have patterns. Study enough of us, and you see the same things repeat. When I reference ideas drawn from quantum mechanics, I understand how easily they can sound deta

As much as everyone hoped that ringing in the New Year would magically fix our problems, there is much work still to be done. As I look...