Quarterly Essay Series • October 2026

The Crazy Journal: Truth Without Guarantees

Uncomfortable questions, inconvenient truths, and mental models that refuse to behave. Confronting human certainty with brutal reality.

What is The Crazy Journal?

The Crazy Journal is an independent intellectual platform arguing for the critical necessity of radical reality testing. We contend that the persistent human obsession with guaranteed outcomes, religious conformity, and magical thinking is the principal impediment to personal agency, intellectual clarity, and authentic creativity.

Our core premise is singular and uncompromising: the universe has never signed an agreement to reward your effort or validate your comfort. The purpose of this journal is to examine where our inherited explanations fail, and how to think with courage when no guarantees exist.

Explore Our Core Focus Areas

Our Focus Areas

Zero False Guarantees

Exposing the fallacy that doing everything right entitles you to win. Preparation improves probability; it does not purchase immunity from reality.

Intellectual Courage

God did not give you a brain to stop using it. Refusing to confuse obedience to human authority with loyalty to God, and dismantling fear disguised as humility.

Scientific Paradox Mirrors

Grounding human decision-making in non-linear physics and game theory—from Braess’s traffic paradox to quantum Zeno freezing and time crystals.

Fresh Perspectives: Insights

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Sun Nov 08 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)#crazy-journal

YOU DON'T WANT FREEDOM. YOU WANT PERMISSION TO BE YOURSELF.

The Courage to Be Disliked — and the uncomfortable truth about the lives we perform for other people's approval.

![The Courage to Be Disliked — You Don't Want Freedom. You Want Permission to Be Yourself.](/images/journals/courage-to-be-disliked.jpg)

Sun Nov 01 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)#crazy-journal

WHAT KIND OF FOOL DECLARES WAR ON THE WATER HE DRINKS?

An uncomfortable reflection on an ancient Yoruba Ifá chant, the violence of words, betrayal and the stupidity of human ingratitude.

I came across this line in an Ifá chant, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

Fri Oct 23 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)#crazy-journal

UNCERTAINTY

The Illusion of Control

![The Shattered Illusion of Certainty](/images/journals/shattered-certainty.png)

Adebayo Samuel Tomori

Adebayo Samuel Tomori

Founder, Editor & Systems Architect

The Voice Behind The Journal

Dissecting Complexity Through Software, Defense & Cognitive Models

With a foundational background in Electrical Engineering (B.Eng., University of Ilorin) and deep credentials in Cisco and Microsoft enterprise infrastructure, Adebayo specializes in building resilient SaaS products (Edukate, Edupay, SkoolBoard), defensive cybersecurity, and evidence-based data analytics. He publishes The Crazy Journal as an uncompromising exploration of cognitive paradoxes, risk mechanics, and decision-making under uncertainty.

Software Architecture

15+ years engineering scalable enterprise systems, SaaS platforms (Edukate, Edupay), and student information systems (SkoolBoard).

Defensive Security

Certified network & systems security instructor training engineers in threat defense, secure infrastructure, and zero-trust design.

Data & Systems Logic

Synthesizing quantitative analytics with non-linear mental models to make rational decisions under uncertainty.

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