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...

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...

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....

Obstacles are unexpected impediments to movement. I learned a valuable lesson about mountain bike riding from my friend Randy, who had...

A “razor” is a philosophical principle that helps eliminate unlikely explanations for the Chaos that periodically and inevitably arises...

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...

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...

Chaos is the state of uncontrollable circumstance. Although Chaos reigns equally over each of the Earth’s biological kingdoms, it is only...