Metaphoric

Stories and poems. Every story is followed by a boxed key that keeps the science apart.

Geometry

• Current Drift BookA novel about a research ship, a warm anomaly on the sea floor, and the difference between a pattern someone sees and a finding that survives being doubted.
• Two Hundred Thousand Miles From a Second Opinion StoryThe architecture told through Apollo 13. An older teaching format: the explanation is woven through the narrative, so the key beneath it separates what the story borrows from what the science says.
• The Bottom Drawer StoryA cat, a drawer of old mainsprings, and a birth. A story about an edge crossed once and for good, with enough in hand to reach the other side.
• Odd Sympathy StoryTwo clocks, a dog, and a riverbank. A story about edges that announce themselves by getting slower to answer, and edges that do not.
• A funnel, not a fence SceneA boundary that directs flow instead of blocking it.
• The notebook with the same four points SceneA dated record settles who was first. No test settles what someone meant.
• Sensor, controller, restoring force SceneDeclaration versus measurement, sensor versus actuator, closed loop versus execution.
• The cat SceneA ship's cat sits on the drifting sensor, the unwatched monitor and a loose connector, and understands none of it.
• Why the stories and the science stay apart EssayA metaphor is how a label travels between domains. That is exactly why it has to be kept out of the evidence.

Human Health

• The Golden Thread of Clarity PoemStrain as a signal, and the thread that shows when what is felt and what is known stand in one place.
• Set-Point PoemA seed, a root and a tilt: the response is set by the angle, and no one sees the set-point.

Financial Inclusion

• The Warden BookA story set in Lagos about a trust platform that grows without anyone holding the gate, and about what a record can and cannot say when something goes wrong.
• A defensible claim carrying an indefensible signal SceneEvery sentence defensible, a real gap filled, and one symbol meaning two things.
• A frame made of true things SceneA frame can be built entirely from true facts: real transactions, real possession, real hesitations, totalled.
• A right diagnosis can produce a harmful remedy SceneThe regulator removed the declaration and installed no sensor, so 2.4 million people were told the dial had never been connected to anything.
• Atmosphere is what evidence is planted into SceneLater testimony is shaped by small early placements.
• Conclusive to you is not evidence SceneConviction is not evidence, even when it is correct and long held.
• Identical in the record SceneWhen the innocent and guilty versions of a person's conduct look the same in the record, the record cannot tell them apart, and no care by the person changes that.
• Legibility is not insurance SceneEveryone knew exactly what happened to Emeka and nobody thought him a thief, and the circle still failed, because a rotation with no slack cannot absorb one member's loss.
• Legibility works on a rumour by making it checkable SceneThe rumour did not die by refutation; it stopped matching anything anyone could see.
• No sensor, no reading, no defence SceneWhen the question finally came there was nothing to say: not nothing convincing, nothing.
• Put it in front of the people with authority SceneA captain declines to change course on one man's feeling, and tells him which channel the claim goes through.
• Satisfying answers are stopping rules SceneBoth stories were true and evidenced, the named parties were guilty, and the inquiry would stop there.
• Selection is an act SceneIdentical footage can be cut two ways, both true in every frame, and the choice goes unquestioned, including by the subject.
• The spec sheet clears the tool, not the operator SceneA captain asks whether the equipment was cleared. Then asks whether the person was.
• The entry, and the number others could stand on SceneAn honest "not known yet" goes into a record, and a second review decides whether anyone can build on it.
• The rule that refuses you when you are right SceneTest a standard by asking whether it refuses you when you are right and sympathetic.
• Two marks that are not the same kind of object SceneThe core claim in story form: a measurement can refuse; a declaration cannot.
• Two questions a source may ask a researcher SceneWho pays you, and what will you do with the person? The first is answered with documents offered unprompted.
• Two ways to catch a pattern SceneThe machine caught it in aggregate, afterwards, statistically.
• What the record covers, and what it does not SceneA bounded claim stated by the instrument itself: what the record establishes (nine verified jobs, no disputes), what it says nothing about (the ₦3.7M, in either direction), and who could testify to the rest.
• What would have had to exist for this to be impossible? SceneThe reframe: stop litigating the past and ask what would have had to exist for the bad outcome to be impossible.
• Where the loss lands, not where it is booked SceneThe institution was fine; the loss fell on informal credit extended behind each user by people who knew them.
• Witness statements that read as admissions SceneFour supporting statements confirmed the accusation's facts (he paid them, at his own discretion) and said nothing about authority.