Most mornings, I wake up, walk the dogs, and almost instinctively start the latest podcast.

I tell myself I want to understand, and I do. I have deep respect for the intellectual rigor of many of the analysts, journalists, and podcast hosts I listen to. Serious inquiry matters. Understanding the world matters.

But lately, I have found myself wondering whether understanding and control are always the same thing. One podcast often leads to another. One expert points me to another. One explanation generates three more questions. Trump says one thing. Netanyahu says another. Markets react. Commentators speculate. Somehow, despite all the information, certainty remains strangely elusive.

I’ve noticed something. Have you? The search itself never seems to end.

Perhaps that is what has struck me most over the past six years.

Artificial intelligence.

Geopolitical instability.

For years, many of us treated these events as interruptions, temporary periods to get through before life returned to normal. But what if uncertainty itself is not the interruption? What if it is the condition?

Psychologists have long observed that human beings are uncomfortable with unanswered questions. Perhaps understandably so.

As a student of diplomacy and government, I have become........

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