How many tomorrows? We don’t know which brings the win, which is the last Only certainty: nothing will be won if nothing is done Randomness and dumb luck of the world is beyond us Nobody knows what each year brings We command the minutes How Many Tomorrows? If you’re lucky…

The LEVER, one of humanity’s first machines Force multiplier converting effort into work Every lever needs a key part to work: The FULCRUM Without it, no leverage Today’s lever is an idea, process, a system Its fulcrum is TIME It moves worlds, old ones, to make room for the new …

When nothing seems to help look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a 100 times without a single crack Yet at 101 times, it will split in two know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before The Stonecutter’s Final Blow …

There was a man who lived on a mountain Liked to be away where one could think Kept a record of what happened for clear thoughts Gave everything all the time it needed Real change does not end the same day it begins Be away from the confusion of things …

“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Perfection and the speed of light You keep cutting away at an endless eternal gap, at an aching pace, it never goes away It is a starship…

10 year deadline Earth orbit assembly? Rocket size of a battleship? Enter midlevel tech taking career risk A govt memo 9 pages long, single-spaced “somewhat as a voice in the wilderness” 2 small ships in lunar orbit Idea from 1916 Apollo 8 A Storyteller Sent Man To The Moon You…

Name means “cunningly wrought” Maker of Labyrinth, maze for Minotaur Reward? Imprisonment in tower Hack an escape out by going UP Wings for self & son Son didn’t listen, reached for sun, wings melted Still same, we strive for skies, ache for stars We are The Children of Daedalus Daedalus…

Apprentice in studio Florence, then Milan An application to its masters, the Sforzas A letter promised much: weapons, great machines, mighty metal horse First jobs were stage shows Greatest works decades in the making Rejection. Frustration. Curiosity. Genius. DaVinci The best games may have simple rules but mastery may require a lifetime. The Game of Creation is played on a invisible and infinite board.

You are the heirs of time. 1 year, 31.5 million seconds. Billions in a lifetime. At first, this wealth is practically spilling out of your pockets. Not everyone gets to access their entire inheritance. Life is unfair. Maybe the first half billion or so was spent with the help of parents and loved ones. The returns include incredible memories, family values, traditions, and a sense of self. Soon enough, you took custody of your wealth and began to dole it out.