Impacts imminent in global shipping. apple.news/A3yAPjKMoRtClbhR35Ev2Ew Consider this: how much of what you buy depends on global shipping? Shipping costs are already going up due to oil price spikes. Now these shipping lane “toll booth” concepts will proliferate beyond just… Read more: Brace! Brace! Brace!

As we burn through our stockpiles of standard munitions in Iran, Taiwan and China are nervously watching… apple.news/ABBQjVRwdQACXAidWYmW9Cg Think of what the semiconductor industry will look like if Taiwan falls to China. We need to be preparing for this. The… Read more: It’s all connected…

I successfully revived my home studio! Shortly thereafter, this harmonic a pattern came to me and I voiced it out… demoing how to do that for my son, who’s at a charter school for the arts in the music conservatory.… Read more: Getting back to music…

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a fantastic read that makes mindful about the relationship of one’s own mental state, others, and machines. I usually plan to re-read it every 5 years and every time I get something… Read more: One book I can read repeatedly

Book recommendation: “The Second World War” by James Keegan

Your money is one of the most powerful votes you have. Don’t spend/give it to benefactors to political actions with which you disagree.

I posted this in my writers’ incubator forum recently: “Whether we call whatever has a higher understanding of the Universe ‘God’ or any other name, co-creation is the name of the game. We are all part of one Universal construct… Read more: Creativity is the highest form of contributing

In Uncertainty Quantification, a user maps distributed, uncertain inputs through a non-linear simulation model and studies the relationship between those distributed inputs and the outputs, and in-between the outputs. This means that careful consideration must be taken as to the… Read more: Every distributed parameter is a model.

Coasting through space, final checks all “go”I am targeted at a tiny sliver of atmosphere on the limb.No ability to abort, it is time to cast off my interplanetary machinery.Slowly as a crushing pressure builds on my bones,my skin ablates… Read more: EDL: an ode to Curiosity and Perseverance

In recent days, there has been coverage in the media of certain individuals promoting an overly-strong influence of Christianity into United States politics. An example of this is the baptism of individuals at political rallies. These should be separate, and… Read more: On Separation of Church and State