Monday, July 6, 2026, 9:50 PM: I worked with Copilot this evening on Chapter 1 of my book. Tonight was all about refining the concept of industry representatives whose names reflect their disciplines rather than corporate or government affiliations. I settled on a tentative list of names to use for a 14-member council, which is as follows:
- The Trillionaire (Chairman)
- Chip (Hardware)
- App (Software)
- Med (Medicine)
- Psyche (Mental Health)
- Forge (Industry)
- Grid (Energy)
- Vault (Finance)
- Lens (Media)
- Shield (Defense)
- Signal (Intelligence)
- Orbit (Aerospace)
- Gene (Life Sciences)
- Brief (Law)
Microsoft 365 Copilot suggests that the strongest character names for dialogue and symbolism are Vault, Lens, Signal, Shield, Gene, and Psyche. I’ll have to sleep on that one, but for now… “It’s a workable list for what I have in mind.”
Author: Brian Schnabel
A resident of Newtonian Gardens in New Jersey, he is a witch in the nontraditional sense: an explorer of consciousness, meditation, dreams, intuition, manifestation, and the strange territory where inner experience meets everyday reality. Accepting claims solely on the authority of a teacher, book or tradition isn’t in his DNA. His approach is experimental rather than prescriptive: he tries various techniques, observes what happens, journals, questions, and adjusts his practice accordingly. For him, witchcraft is a conscious practice of working with attention, intention, language, and intuition to explore personal transformation. He writes honestly about that ongoing experiment, sharing successes, failures, doubts, surprises, and unanswered questions here. He does not claim absolute answers as to what an experience means.
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