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CHAPTER NINE: Dominion
A Zebra Jockey is a high-Adaptation man whose default response to the Chaos of uncontrollable circumstance is to make necessary and rapid...
Sep 19, 2022


CHAPTER EIGHT: Passivity
The Control Impulse to determine events and direct the actions of others exists to some degree in every human being. Whether a man is a...
Sep 11, 2022


CHAPTER SEVEN: Is
Thirty years ago, I told my friends and family that I had “decided” to go to law school rather than telling them the truth, that I had...
Sep 4, 2022


CHAPTER SIX: Adversity
Most of the major decisions I have made in my life were not decisions at all, but rather Adaptations in the face of Obstacles and Chaos....
Aug 28, 2022


CHAPTER FIVE: Obstacles
Obstacles are unexpected impediments to movement. I learned a valuable lesson about mountain bike riding from my friend Randy, who had...
Aug 20, 2022


CHAPTER FOUR: Razors
A “razor” is a philosophical principle that helps eliminate unlikely explanations for the Chaos that periodically and inevitably arises...
Aug 14, 2022


CHAPTER THREE: Edge
I’m not a soldier anymore, I’m a lawyer now. Not long ago my client Chance and I had to go New York together for a deposition. He called...
Aug 7, 2022


CHAPTER TWO: Flow
Many years ago, I was sent to Africa on a mission with my Special Forces team. We flew there on an Air Force C-130 transport plane. A...
Aug 2, 2022


CHAPTER ONE: Chaos
Chaos is the state of uncontrollable circumstance. Although Chaos reigns equally over each of the Earth’s biological kingdoms, it is only...
Jul 20, 2022
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