Is meaning a state of mind or a state of being?

What if meaning isn’t something we discover or invent, but something that happens when what we believe collides with the world as it is?

The Blind Squirrel Hypothesis is an inquiry into uncertainty, consequence, authenticity, and the strange ways human beings make sense of a world that refuses to behave.

Drawing on philosophy, psychology, systems thinking, risk, failure, and more than a few bad decisions, Fred Neske explores the space between the stories we tell ourselves and the reality those stories eventually encounter.

Along the way there are dice, squirrels, industrial accidents, cognitive biases, potholes, the Titanic, the Hindenburg, Socrates, coronary arteries, and an unreasonable number of acorns.

At the center is a proposition: meaning becomes visible where interpretation meets consequence.

But getting there requires confronting a harder truth. We rarely know as much as we think we do. Our beliefs shape what we become. Reality gets a vote. And authenticity has a cost.

Part philosophy, part field report from a crooked world, The Blind Squirrel Hypothesis does not promise certainty.

It asks whether something better is possible: a more honest way of being uncertain.