Wrench In the Gears

Interesting new thought experiment regarding accessing the adjacent possible with directed acyclic graphics, laminated spacetime, and “flying” through the imaginal of quantum superposition.  Resources shared in pinned comment to the video. Playlist Matthew Segall on Whitehead: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNSjVGWqTO51p4W6rV9EgnYw7nvdFrFh&si=RvfEI_e_kMJ5v7ve Tom Cheetham on Math, Music, Imaginal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-28UGMOXK8 JCA Solutions VR “Flying” https://wrenchinthegears.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/taxonomy-xapi-data-capture-vr-1.pdf Santa... Read more

A greeting to open 2026 with a read aloud on archetypal patterns from Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon.” How might we neutralize trauma bonds in our world models in order to unlock more of our hopeful creative potential for ourselves and our communities? Is there a way to more fully inhabit the... Read more

Select quotes from Tove Jansson’s 1957 “Moominland Midwinter: One On the other side of the lamp someone had dug herself a cozy hole, someone who lay looking up at the serene winter sky and whistling very softly to herself. “What song is that?” asked Moomintroll. “It ‘s a song of... Read more

I am so grateful for all my blessings and the lessons I have learned. Thank you to all who have helped me and witnessed me and are cheering me from the sidelines. Links to salon slide decks: Part One – Sacred Play and the Infinite Game: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WrlzrObg69v71Lfz-vUaq57FpugtuUnhpNhvP4kEX8E/edit?usp=sharing Part Two –... Read more

I’m making this brief post primarily as a placeholder for the photographs I took yesterday of the collection of Caddo pottery at Henderson State College in Arkadelphia, AR. The collection of artifacts, donated by the Hodges family to the school, is impressive and well worth a day trip. It contains... Read more

Today I realized that even though the Web3 program is ramping up as demonstrated by Silicon Valley’s plans to turn Argentina into a “network state,” few understand what is unfolding with cybernetic governance. For that reason, I decided to take time off this spring to work on my garden and... Read more

Posting this late, so I won’t be writing an introduction. As is the case for me lately, the offering is a somewhat rambling discussion that surfaces quiet a few nuggets for you to chew on.  Life in this absurdist improvisational theater might easier if we can practice the Tao of... Read more

I made a video today reflecting on how we manage (or don’t) our energy and how our engagement with digital information complicates our lives. I’m proposing that people consider dialing back their social media consumption to spend time reflecting on their thinking, what we have learned over the past five... Read more

This is a follow up to yesterday’s video reiterating my thoughts about Live Action Role Play with encoded artefacts as an example of extended mind and possible future inter-dimensional information processing system. The talk goes along with two earlier talks Jason and I did on the work of Michael Mateas... Read more

Below are Joseph Gonzalez’s responses to questions I posed about his theory of quantum realism. You can find out more at his blog bantamjoe.com. I discuss these questions in the video below starting at timestamp 20 minutes. Select links from Bantamjoe.com: The Self-Aware Circle of Consciousness: Here A Holographic Reality... Read more

I took notes on Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s post-election discussion of their Fairshake pro-crypto Pac and the coming Trump presidency about two months ago, but set them aside and other topics took precedence. Given the rising craziness in the crypto space around the inauguration, I thought it was a... Read more

In this morning’s video I somehow missed the fact that the inauguration coincides with MLK Day, which is an interesting sync with the “melanin as optical material” lens. I’m going to drop a few links to old blog posts that touch on the YMCA and “out of school time learning”... Read more