jjk.engineer

"Constraints are not obstacles. They are invitations to excellence."

A companion piece to the Great Rift Valley Incident series

Previously: Week Three has ended in crisis. Hunting efficiency is down 43%. The tribe is starving. Hunters have begun ignoring Derek's system and returning to old methods. Derek has responded by implementing stricter process controls. A reckoning approaches.

What began as documentation of a Golden Doodle's apparent adaptation to nocturnal atmospheric disturbances has taken a disturbing turn. After 14.7 hours of literature review, this researcher must acknowledge an uncomfortable parallel: we may have inadvertently replicated Seligman's foundational learned helplessness experiments. The subject has not developed strategic avoidance. The subject has learned that avoidance is impossible. Mathematical analysis reveals 2.5-3.0 atmospheric events per night, every night, indefinitely. Sagan lives in the shuttle box. Permanently. This report documents the researcher's complicity, the control subject's judgmental superiority, and why the gumbo was worth it.

Previously: Derek's transformation program is now in full effect. Hunting efficiency has dropped 31%. The tribe is hungry, confused, but committed to the process. Week Two begins.