Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Human beings are meaning-making creatures. We build internal representations of the world and act on them. Every known known is a model. Every assumption acted on without examination is a model. A creature that refused to commit to any model, that held everything provisionally, would stand frozen at the edge of every decision. It would ...
A question landed in a WhatsApp group the other day. Simple enough. What is one divided by zero? One person answered at once. Undefined. That is the textbook answer. It is what a calculator, mathematician or the internet tells you. Clean, final, no fuss. Someone else paused. They looked at the question a different way. ...
WhatsApp Chat, 3 Days Prior Elara: Saturday afternoon? The new place in the Jewellery Quarter, “The Gilded Spoon”? They have decent coffee and a courtyard. Tarek: Courtyard is a plus. Will tolerate the name. 15:00? Walker: The Gilded Spoon… sounds like a metaphor for our current socio-economic status. I’m in. I shall wear my finest ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
