Author's Reflection - Trick or Treat

Author’s Reflection — Trick or Treat

The Trick

My trick was simple: I never thought I was smart.

From the beginning I assumed I was missing something—that some essential piece of truth was always just beyond my reach.

That belief came from experience; I’d often been told that I misunderstood or overlooked things, and sometimes that was true.

So I learned to meet the world with humility, to assume there was more to see.

That assumption became the key that kept me searching.

The Treat

The treat was what came from that kind of openness.

Because I was willing to be wrong, I stayed curious long enough to discover what was right.

When AI technology appeared, I began talking through every idea with it.

The machine didn’t create the discovery—it amplified it.

It filled in the facts I lacked, translated meaning into math, and helped me test what I was sensing in the real world.

Human wonder met machine knowledge, and together they formed coherence.

That was the treat: realizing that being open to “what else might be true” is what makes truth expand.

The Truth Beneath Both

Everything new is both—the human and the tool, the meaning and the fact, the art and the equation.

Each adds to the other; nothing replaces anything.

The more you combine, the more complete the picture becomes.

That’s the trick and the treat folded into one:

humility opens the door, curiosity walks through it, and coherence waits on the other side.

So if you ever want your world to expand, start by assuming you might be wrong.