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 curious observer position in this infinite game?
At a time when chaotic information streams trigger on-demand emotional reactions, snap judgements on all manner of tragic and titillating topics can we still entrain towards harmony?
In this year of the horse, what would it feel like to lean into the potent medicine of the equine heart field and embrace toroidal dynamics to beautiful collective effect?
This is the playlist about boundaries and quantum information theory with Chris Fields and John Clippinger.
Richard A. Watson’s work on our lives and lineages as songlines.

Excerpt from Cryptonomicon if you want to read this passage again.

Map showing connection of Alfred Loomis to the MIT Rad Lab in WWII.

Map showing Clippinger and Pentland’s work on ID3 and Open Mustard Seed digital ID in 2013.


Stay focused – I enjoy your work.