Here Is A Secret Mental Hack To Accelerate Your Journey I apologize. It has taken a month to reflect on my father’s passing at the age of 90. The days have been a reminder that he was instrumental in my achieving the unspoken goal at age 29 of making my…

What I Learned From Saying Goodbye — I took a journey last week. This walk happens only once. It is when you say goodbye to your mother or father as they leave this life. In my case, the rituals surrounding the event are centuries old, embedded in the Irish Catholic culture. The Conroy family tree extends back…

How Past And Future Converge To Make Us Conscious — We live and die in the moments between just ahead and just behind. This narrow sliver of conscious experience we call life is made amazing, but only when lived outside our comfort zone. The last twelve months have been a year of living dangerously through no choice of mine. In…

Free Will Always Wins Out But Takes Longer Than Expected — Hoping for the best right now is not an option. It could very well cost you everything you have worked for in your life. The months ahead will dictate your future. The physics of a communications shit storm (Russian Propaganda) are elementary. Thanks to Claude Shannon and his treatise on…

Reality Is Not What Others Would Have Us Believe — The insight came to me in a very human, but sad way. I watched a video of a Russian soldier with a webcam mounted on his helmet, track two young Ukrainian soldiers walking in the woods, as if on a Boy Scout weekend outing, lost in youthful conversation. The audio…

The War In Ukraine, Did That Really Happen? What I love about being a cognitive scientist first, and a data scientist second, is that I choose to time travel into the future while many humans, waging a war of useless violence, are stuck in the present, through no fault of…

It Is Way Beyond The Shallows — I am not allowed to take my cell phone to work. My cell has to stay locked in my car during work. Being disconnected from the attention economy run by the FAANG Oligarchs pays big dividends. One day, the Aha Moment struck me. Why was I getting so much done…

The Slavs Are Doing What They Always Do — Get Over It — Take a step back for a moment and think about geography and cultural boundaries of the European subcontinent. There are currently 50+ independent nations that claim niche constructions with recognized boundaries in Europe. …

Putin, Biden, and Claude Shannon-Like Noisy Messages — I am a data scientist. My core skill set is translating the behavior of human animals (Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, etc) into representations rendered in the form of continuous analog messages (he fired, she got hit, her protector fired back, the perp died from a direct hit). I…