We are vulnerable to the chaos of the universe, and we all know someone who has that Bad Thing happen to them out of nowhere. Maybe it's happened to you. No wonder then, we create some ironclad mindsets and attitudes to defend against feeling vulnerable.

In the series and in the books, powerful technology is guided by and interfered with by our human emotions, mistakes, and life-saving flights of fancy.

It’s not just that the fixation on metrics misrepresents the success or not of a project, person or department. It’s also that the application of numbers-based outcome measurements is a kind of laziness.

Perhaps this is the lighthouse of RADIO SILENCE - shining: don’t stay still, move; don’t be alone, connect; don’t be silent, speak, sing, weep, mourn, rage and wail.

Human intelligence is not binary, either/or, left/right. It's a both/and swirl of multiple possibilities, seeming contradictions, and surprise.

Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength, an act of courage, as it rises room the oil spill of our grief.