ACTIVE INFERENCE

Walk into a dysfunctional organization and you can feel it. Before anyone explains the org chart or the quarterly numbers, your body knows something is wrong. The tension in the air. The way people move—too fast, too careful, too checked out. The conversations that happen in hallways versus the

You're in the middle of saying something hard. Maybe you're describing a loss, or confessing a fear, or trying to articulate something you've never been able to put into words. It's risky. You're exposed. You don't know if

Put two pendulum clocks on the same wall and wait. In 1665, the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed something strange. The pendulums, which had started swinging at different rates, gradually synchronized. Within half an hour, they were moving in perfect anti-phase—one going left while the other went right, locked

There are moments when reality unmoors. The words coming out of someone's mouth suddenly sound like noise. The familiar room becomes alien. Your own hand seems to belong to someone else. The ground you've stood on your whole life—the assumptions, the expectations, the sense that

We've been thinking about trauma wrong. The conventional story treats trauma as a memory disorder. Something terrible happened. The memory of that event is stuck, intrusive, overwhelming. Treatment means processing the memory—talking it through, making sense of it, filing it properly in the autobiographical archive. This isn&

You're about to make a decision, and something in your stomach says no. Not your head—your gut. A physical sensation, sub-verbal, prior to reasoning. You can't explain it. You can't justify it. But it's there: a tightening, a sinking, an unmistakable