An Unsustainable Life – The Book of Issac
Chapter 1: Turning Point – How a singular event can change destiny Chapter 2: Custody – Issac abandons his relationship with Darwin Chapter 3: Lowest Common Denominator – Boys need strong male role models Chapter 4: The Value of Education – Issac drops out of college to enjoy life Chapter 5: Windy City Life – Issac and Gabriela live large on Issac’s trust fund Chapter 6: Murphy’s North Shore Bar – Issac bartends to stave off boredom Chapter 7: Segue To A Life – What comes after the last of your trust fund Chapter 8: Whatever – One man’s death is another's opportunity Chapter 9: Penance Before Reconciliation – Probate is a wonder blessing Chapter 10: A Life Well Lived – Issac meets Camille Chapter 11: The Destiny of Purpose – Not even profound love lasts Chapter 12: Loneliness Is Not A Virtue – Learning to live on your own Chapter 13: Purpose Has Value – Assessing your life is pretty darn hard Chapter 14: The Art of Love – Be someone someone wants to love Chapter 15: Revelation – Change is hard, knowing you need to change is harder Chapter 16: The Aftermath of a Life Well Lived – Issac unravel Darwin’s journals Chapter 17: Marquez Mountain Redux – Darwin, Issac, and a mountain of history Chapter 18: Mashings of a Mentor – Issac begins to understand Darwin Chapter 19: Sunshine in Winter – Survival is itself the lesson Chapter 20: In The Footsteps of Giants – Outliers tread lightly Chapter 21: Where Wild Mustangs Roam – Saving mustangs is Issac's metaphor Chapter 22: The Singularity – It may be too late to save humanity but ya gotta try Chapter 23: Finish What You Start – The Outliers have to persevere Chapter 24: When Win-Win Is Not An Option – Life’s replete with hard decisions Chapter 25: Transformation – The trans-human allure of AI Chapter 26: Walk in The Woods – Trans-humanity or real life struggles, you decide Chapter 27: Shadow Dancer – As foretold by the Outliers
An Unsustainable Life – The Book of Darwin
Chapter 1: Marquez Mountain – Destiny demands you know your past
Chapter 2: Shadows About to Collide – The Berkeley con and framework for atonement
Chapter 3: Windy City – Chicago and the grand reset
Chapter 4: Murphy’s North Shore Bar – Darwin and Vincent reminisce
Chapter 5: A Bettors Bond – Wins a bet, name your nephew
Chapter 6: Segue To A Life – Harley ride from Chicago to Taos in October
Chapter 7: Ace In The Hole – Buying Marquez Mountain
Chapter 8: Building Toward a Rebuilding – The hacienda restoration project
Chapter 9: Penance Before Reconciliation – Issac’s christening, Darwin’s meltdown
Chapter 10: The Art of War – Darwin rescues Anna from drunk Texans
Chapter 11: Road to Redemption – How Darwin & Anna see each other
Chapter 12: Code Of The West – Elk hunt in Northern New Mexico
Chapter 13: Meet Me In Tangiers – Tien’s need to fix what they broke
Chapter 14: The Coming Singularity – Tien convinces Darwin to join the Outliers
Chapter 15: Circle of Life – Vincent and Ilene visit Taos
Chapter 16: When Time Stands Still – After a day with Vincent, Darwin’s world collapses
Chapter 17: Everyone Has A Death Story – Darwin & Anna share a Remembrance Dinner
Chapter 18: In Chaos There Is Opportunity – How prevent AI from destroying humanity
Chapter 19: Synchronicity – Gossip weaves it’s way through Darwin’s world
Chapter 20: The Subtle Seduction – The rise of Information Oligarchs
Chapter 21: Outliers – The first step is admitting there’s a problem
Chapter 22: Cogito Ergo Sum, I Think Therefore, I Am – The rise of AI, the fall of Darwin
Dangling Conversation
Chapter 1: Strangers in the Night – Kyle meets Isabelle
Chapter 2: Alternate Reality
Chapter 3: How Are You Happy
Chapter 4: Everybody’s Barcelona
Chapter 5: Sounds of Silence
Chapter 6: Damaged Goods
Chapter 7: The Ghosts Within
Chapter 8: Tu versus Vous
Chapter 9: Calculus of Causation
Chapter 10: Resonance Dissonance
Chapter 11: Last Look at Love
Chapter 12: Color of Cold
Chapter 13: A Dream That Dies
Chapter 14: My Year of Being Happy
Chapter 15: The Greater Fool Theory
Chapter 16: Friends with Fate
Chapter 17: Dillon’s Dichotomy
Chapter 18: Is Love Possible
Chapter 19 Lies We Tell Ourselves
Chapter 20: Say It Ain’t So
Chapter 21: How It Ends Matters — ya gotta give me $1,000,000 to read how it ends…….
Rainmakers of Revolution
Chapter 1: La Marseillaise de la Nueva – Jake talks with Emelia
Chapter 2: Fiesta de la Dario – Dario celebrates his success
Chapter 3: Broken Pieces – As Sympatico continues to heal, she and Jake confront their feelings
Chapter 4: The Coming Coup – ANA plans need to evolve quickly and continually to avoid detection
Chapter 5: Letters of Marque and Reprisal – The ANA exert constitutional authority for their coup
Chapter 6 Battle of the Oligarchs – The ANA peel past the onion of who’s really running the country
Chapter 7: Dominic and Denali – A story of Love and Loss but not Lost Love
Chapter 8: Avatars of AI – The ANA battle the watchers in cyberspace
Chapter 9: Civil Unrest – The country’s dysfunction demands action now
Chapter 10: Follow the Money – The ANA plot their path to bring down corrupt politicians
Chapter 11: We’ll Always Have Paris – Jake can’t get past is past
Chapter 12: Something About Sympatico – There’s more to Sympatico that anyone imagined
Chapter 13: Twist of Fate – Marcos could just as easily be a friend as a foe
Chapter 14: Manzano Mountain – What does the new republic look like
Chapter 15: The Order of Protecting Padres – Padre reveals the real reason he’s in New Mexico
Chapter 16: In the Shadow of Simon – Sympatico past becomes the present
Chapter 17: Civil War – As the nation spirals into chaos the ANA make their move
Chapter 18: Plato and the New Republic – To be successful, no one can know that they’ve done
Chapter 19: A Distiller’s Defiance – Jake tells Sympatico the real story of the Boston Tea Party
Chapter 20: Happy Hell – Jake encourage Sympatico toward happiness even though he never can
Chapter 21: In Chaos There is Opportunity – The ANA seize on the chaos they’ve created
Chapter 22: Americans for a New America – The ANA’s success could quickly teeter toward failure
Trophic Cascade
Chapter 1: Suddenness of Entropy – A woman’s dead and Sympatico’s missing
Chapter 2: Por Favor – Armando and Dario go to Miguel’s ranch
Chapter 3: Watchers, Waiters and a World in Motion – Alverez arrives in NM
Chapter 4: Where You’re Supposed to Be – Jake life before Emelia
Chapter 5: Simply Safe – Jake and Padre discuss good and evil
Chapter 6: Trumpeter of Krakow – Why Padre's plays in a Salsa band
Chapter 7: Diablo’s Design – Miguel threatens Jake but Dario intercedes
Chapter 8: Social Nullification – What really happened in Worland
Chapter 9: Trophic Cascade – Your obligations to the world
Chapter 10: Diablo’s Desperation – Miguel abducts Sympatico
Chapter 11: Call of the Wild – Jake & Sympatico are attacked by dogs
Chapter 12: Where You’re Supposed to Be – Dario treats Jake wounds
Chapter 13: Tu Me Manques (You Are Missed) – How Jake and Emelia met
Chapter 14: Fiesta de Albuquerque por la Mañana – Preparing for a wine fiesta
Chapter 15: Into the Frying Pan – Jake readies his crew for wine fiesta chaos
Chapter 16: Secret Police – Alverez sets up Jake and Armando
Chapter 17: Necessary First Step – Sympatico ventures out on her own
Chapter 18: Love and War – Miguel and his men make their move
Chapter 19: In Diablo’s Den – The reason Sympatico matters
Chapter 20: Field Ops – The ANA free Sympatico
Chapter 21: Diablo’s Demise – The ANA are exposed to Marcos
Chapter 22: In The End There Is Only the End – Marcos closes in
What Is To Be Done
Chapter 1: Prelude To A Touch – Jake ends another sleepless night
Chapter 2: The Madness of Memories – Jake and Armando share a drink
Chapter 3: Al Azar – An ANA meeting at Armando’s bar on Cinco de Mayo
Chapter 4: The Desperation of Her Darkness – Sympatico seeks sanctuary
Chapter 5: Derivation of Destiny – Dario takes down Miguel’s henchmen
Chapter 6: Death is An Illusion – Sympatico on good and evil
Chapter 7: The Monte Hall Paradox – Jake baits Miguel into a wager
Chapter 8: La Marseillaise – Jake attempts to work through last night
Chapter 9: Decoding Demons – What to do about Sympatico
Chapter 10: Infinite Sympatico – Padre shames Jake
Chapter 11: La Marseillaise Redux – Jake’s predawn thoughts of Emelia
Chapter 12:In The Land of Manana – Sympatico’s not home
Chapter 13: What Happens Next – Jake's new reality
Chapter 14: Damaged Goods – Dario's story of a friend lost in combat
Chapter 15: Enemy At the Gate – The ANA debate delaying their launch
Chapter 16: Casualties of Context – Drunk Jake role plays
Chapter 17: Alternate Ending – Another layer in Emelia’s tragic story
Chapter 18: Making Mula – Jake starts a batch of Mula
Chapter 19: Bourbon Etiquette – Chance doesn't know it's interview day
Chapter 20: Aroma of Memories – Aromas to loft Jake back in time
Chapter 21: Blue Bottle Bourbon – Sharing full moon rituals
Chapter 22: Quiet Desperation– The ANA learn Alverez is a Watcher
Chapter 23: Imaginary Numbers – Sympatico bins men
Chapter 24: Angelica – The story behind Jake's alter wine
Chapter 25: Passions of a Padre– Padre's sermon on persistence
Chapter 26:Rendering Verdicts – Dario’s upset Jake hired Chance
Chapter 27: Desperados – Miguel demands Sympatico be returned
Chapter 28: Dawn of Discontent – The old men respond
Chapter 29: Tengo Caricia – The ANA brace for violence
Chapter 30: Calculus of Causation – A woman's been murdered
Truth and Trust in Crisis
Chapter 1. Truth and Trust – Data vs. information, quantitative vs. qualitative evidence
Chapter 2. Math and Models – Review of two academic models and their fiduciary duty
Chapter 3. Flattening the Curve – Determining if COVID could be manmade
Chapter 4. Advent of Armageddon – Our model is 10x more accurate
Chapter 5. Deduction Versus Induction – Using logic to prove two COVID hypotheses
Chapter 6. The Gestalt of Multiple Models – 5 COVID models, each a piece of the puzzle
Chapter 7. The Saint Petersburg Paradox – The mathematics of expected utility theory
Chapter 8. Declaring the Crisis Over – Evidence used to declare the epidemic over
Chapter 9. Our Post-Pandemic Pandemic – Exposing crisis politics
Chapter 10. Letting Actuaries Have Their Say – Assessing COVID when CDC data is suspect
Chapter 11. Quarantines In Crisis – History of quarantines
Chapter 12. Herd Immunity – The science behind herd immunity
Chapter 13. National Narratives – Contrasting multi-national propaganda
Chapter 14. Follow the Science: The Fallacy of Facemasks – Facemask efficacy
Chapter 15. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics – CDC revises death data
Chapter 16. Vaccines à la Children of Thalidomide – Ethicality of an untested vaccine
Chapter 17. Why – One theory binding all COVID whys
Chapter 18. Conclusion – Where do we go for truth and who can we trust
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