> *The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms.* > > Bruno Latour, *After Lockdown* This book is for the endlessly curious. For those who see knowledge not as a prize to be hoarded but as a garden to be tended—something organic, ever-growing, never quite complete. It’s for the intelligent non-experts, the generalists, the seekers rather than the finders. If you’re looking for final answers, neat conclusions, or a comforting sense of closure, you may be disappointed. But if you thrive on the open-ended, the evolving, the **beautifully unfinished**—then you’re in the right place. If, like me, you suspect that the dominant ways we assign meaning, value, and direction to our world are not just flawed but increasingly unfit for purpose—if you feel that the grand narratives guiding Homo sapiens are fraying at the edges, unable to keep pace with the complexity of modern life—then this book is for you. If, like me, you have a natural skepticism toward knowledge that is rigid, fixed, and frozen—if you believe that our collective reasoning should be more dynamic, adaptive, and attuned to the unpredictable nature of reality—then this book is for you. We live in a world that is **changing faster than our inherited frameworks for understanding it**. A world where certainty is often an illusion, where yesterday’s truths crumble under the weight of new discoveries. And yet, we still cling to old mental models as if they were sacred artefacts. If this strikes you as a problem, then you and I have something in common. If, like me, you are drawn to the edges of understanding—if you are a voyager without an abode, someone who feels inexplicably homesick for places that never existed—then this book is for you. It is an invitation to think differently, to embrace the unknown not as a threat but as a frontier. To move beyond the safe harbours of certainty and set sail into the vast, exhilarating waters of uncertainty. [[Chapter Introduction|Next chapter]]