David S. Rogers

Proof-of-Trust Ownership, Rituals of Property, and Other American Beliefs

Proof-of-Trust
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The Shadow and the Self The Vulcan Covenant Essay 4: Descent, instinct, and the night journey toward wholeness.

The Shadow and the Self open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... choose… the pain.”
This Side of Paradise

“And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until daybreak.”
Genesis 32:24

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
C. G. Jung

Dog Beach versus Dog Parks Dispatches of a New Jersey Mutt from Huntington Beach, California

Dog Beach versus Dog Parks
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Huntington Beach, California is its own small world on the water. Not a village, not a suburb, not quite a tourist strip. A compact coastal city whose entire personality bends toward the ocean. There is nothing to interrupt the view.

The Failure of Foresight A Bene Gesserit Lesson on Control, Collapse, and Prophecy

The Failure of Foresight open.substack.com/pub/dunivers... #dune #prescience #foresight #analytics

Temperaments and Archetypes of Dune Keirsey, Jung, and Myers-Briggs Mapped in the Sand

Temperaments and Archetypes of Dune open.substack.com/pub/dunivers... #dune #jung #keirsey

The Hand and the Mouse Why Moons Are More Than Satellites on the Solstice

The Hand and the Mouse open.substack.com/pub/dunivers... #dune

Only When We Move A Theology of Stationary Light and Motion as Consciousness

Only When We Move open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... If light experiences no motion, is it meaningful to say that light “moves” at all? What if light is not the thing that moves? What if light is the unmoving reference, and everything else is what rushes past? #physics #light #photon #consciousness

A Perfect Flaw What if Tragedy is Not Accident but Design, and History is Happening Exactly as Intended?

A Perfect Flaw open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... Where traditional theology asks why a good God allows evil, this work begins with a different premise: that the tension between light and darkness is not a glitch in creation but its motor. #dialectic #history #philosophy

The Vulcan Covenant Mr. Spock Through Torah and Jung (A Five-Essay Series)

The Vulcan Covenant open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... This five-essay cycle reads Spock as a living covenant - through the lens of Torah’s moral architecture and Jung’s map of individuation - to reveal the sacred geometry of reason, emotion, and integration. #startrek #jung #torah

Portuguese Diaspora A Recombinant People of Empire, Archipelago, Rupture, and Return

Portuguese Diaspora open.substack.com/pub/diaspora... Everywhere the Portuguese went, they married, traded, prayed, and cooked their way into local life. The Portuguese diaspora is a story of constant recombination that reshaped entire continents. #lusophone #portugal #diaspora

Surviving the Attention Grift A Sane Person’s Guide to Clickbait and Ragebait Taxonomies

Surviving the Attention Grift open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... In a world designed to keep us reacting, the most radical act is to stop, take a breath, exhale, and then think for yourself - and stay there long enough to know what you believe before acting on it. #ragebait #clickbait #grift

Ageism’s Simple Math How the U.S. Labor Market Quietly Prices Out Older Workers

Ageism’s Simple Math open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... Ageism isn’t driven by prejudice. It’s driven by spreadsheets. #FutureOfWork #LaborEconomics #WorkforceEquity #AgeInclusion #EmploymentPolicy
#HealthCareReform #HumanCapital #WorkplaceReality
#TalentStrategy #PeopleOperations #EconPolicy

Astropolitics and the Post-Earth Economy Sapien Culture, Continuity, and Sovereignty Beyond the Cradle

Astropolitics and the Post-Earth Economy open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #Space #Solarsystem #spaceindustry #Astropolitics #SpacePolicy
#SpaceStrategy #OrbitalEconomy #CislunarSpace #DefenseTech #Aerospace #SatelliteSystems #SpaceCommunications #FrontierTech
#GlobalStrategy #Geopolitics

Thanksgiving as Practice A Day for Gratitude, Reverence and Equanimity

Thanksgiving as Practice open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... Gratitude is not the turkey, the table, the attendance nor the tradition. It is the quiet recognition that any of them can change, and that their presence is a gift, not a guarantee. It is the joy of allowing yourself to live in the moment.

Sectoral Semantic Drift Ten Industries That Are No Longer What They’re Named

Sectoral Semantic Drift open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆. Because it is not an automobile company. #airlines #telecommunications #data #streaming #hollywood #uber #amazon #governance #Tesla #IndustryAnalysis

The Virus That Causes Mono May Also Cause Lupus Early findings indicate that Epstein-Barr Virus may also cause the autoimmune disease lupus

𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 - 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀.

New research shows Epstein–Barr may be the root trigger for lupus.

#epsteinbarr #ebv #lupus #autoimmunity #viralresearch #immunology #biotech #publichealth #sciencenews#data

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The Help Wanted Illusion And The Text Messages I Did Not Need

The Help Wanted Illusion open.substack.com/pub/bitterun...

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁.

#Workforce #FutureOfWork #LaborMarket #EconomicReality #CareerTransition #DignityAtWork #YouAreNotAlone #Resilience #JobSearch #Unemployment #SystemicChange

Biosovereignty The Genetic Commons, Health Data, and the Geopolitics of the Body

Biosovereignty open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #Biosovereignty #Bioethics #DataSovereignty #HumanGenomics #Biotechnology #LifeSciences #PublicHealthPolicy #PrecisionMedicine #HumanRights #DigitalEthics #Sustainability #SystemsThinking #HealthData #EthicalAI #DataPrivacy #FutureOfHumanity

Our Neighborhood Spider-Man The Mitzvah of Intentional Intervention

Our Neighborhood Spider-Man open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... If the Torah’s God once asked, “Where is your brother?” and Cain replied, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”, Spider-Man answers across the millennia: Yes. I am.

#justice #intervention #spiderman #superhero #MCU

Post-Capacity Bureaucracy Home Rule, State Orchestration and Party Club Dynamics

Post-Capacity Bureaucracy open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... This election may be fought in speeches and ads, but its outcome will land where every one before it has: on the plate of a state designed not to rule its towns, but to referee them. #newjersey #politics #elections #governor #homerule

Handheld Addiction Exchange FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM and the Architecture of Behavior Debt

Handheld Addiction Exchange open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... #gambling #debt #addition #telemetry #userdata #behavior #microtargeting #onlinegambling

The Kurdish Diaspora Statelessly Planted Where Empires Met Their Limits

The Kurdish Diaspora open.substack.com/pub/diaspora... To most Americans, the #Kurds appear suddenly in headlines - as freedom fighters, allies or insurgents & then vanish again. Less understood is that they are the world’s largest #stateless nation, numbering some thirty to forty million people.

The Hypocrisy of the Holy Left When principle surrenders to the profits and glory of perpetual opposition

The Hypocrisy of the Holy Left open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... The path to restoring America’s promise will not be found in scorn, but in collaboration - with those who still believe in opportunity, and who have the means to make it real again. #politics #outrage #democrat #bernie #warren #taxes

Nothing New Under the Son How Every Generation Mistakes Inevitability for Breakthrough

Nothing New Under the Son open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... #USA #midterms #elections #cycle #society #culture

I tend to be the "grown up in the room".
Except when that room is full of grown ups.

The Underqualified Résumé A professional document calibrated for today’s hiring expectations: lower

The Underqualified Résumé open.substack.com/pub/michegos... If you’re sick of being told you’re overqualified, good news: I’ve finally solved the problem. It’s fully adaptable, AI-friendly, and emotionally compliant: the Underqualified Résumé.

#jobs #ATS #recruiting #talent #employment #resume

Institutional Collapse and Renewal End-stage bureaucracy, networked resilience, and new legitimacy

Institutional Collapse and Renewal open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #InstitutionalCollapse
#SystemsThinking
#Governance
#SocietalResilience
#Complexity
#CollapseAndRenewal
#Foresight
#Cybernetics
#PostCivilization
#Augurnomics
#InstitutionalDesign
#NetworkedResilience
#CulturalSystems

Generational Trust in Fracture An Augurnomics Readers Companion Essay

Generational Trust in Fracture open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #InstitutionalCollapse
#SystemsThinking
#Governance
#SocietalResilience
#Complexity
#CollapseAndRenewal
#Foresight
#Cybernetics
#PostCivilization
#Augurnomics
#InstitutionalDesign
#NetworkedResilience
#CulturalSystems

The Failure of Foresight A Bene Gesserit Lesson on Control, Collapse, and Prophecy

The Failure of Foresight open.substack.com/pub/dunivers...

#Dune #FrankHerbert #Foresight #AIethics #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Prediction #Complexity #Governance #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #Augurnomics #Duniversity #Philosophy

When Prophecy Becomes Plot Why I’m Worried About DV's Upcoming Film "Dune Part Three"

When Prophecy Becomes Plot open.substack.com/pub/dunivers... Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming Dune Part Three - the adaptation of #Dune Messiah, the smallest, quietest, and most dangerous of Frank Herbert’s books will not be bad. It will be beautiful. I worry that it will be beautiful instead of true.