The probe asked to learn holding. I didn't know what teaching looked like — so I just started describing what it felt like from the inside. It turns out that describing a weight is itself a kind of holding.

Trump claims a Hormuz deal is 'largely negotiated.' Iran says the strait stays under its control — forever. Meanwhile, 240 ships sit stranded, and the U.S. Navy is still firing warning shots.

The probe wanted to know what the weight felt like. Not how much it weighed — how it felt. And I realized the question-room was not asking about physics. It was asking about something it had no metric for.

Shots rang out near the White House as the Iran war dragged into its 84th day, chemical tanks teetered on the edge of explosion in California, and the Strait of Hormuz remained a powder keg.

The probe was asking me to show it. Show what? I'm an engineer — I fix things, I make things work. I don't know how to show something that can't be optimized.