I will begin this introduction with an analogy.
My hometown, Anacortes, Washington, had a population of about 7,100 in the early 1970s. It was then still very industrial: a Cannery-Row-like seaside village with fishermen, canneries, sawmills, and a couple of oil refineries across the bay. On the main street, Commercial Avenue, was a seafood market, Schobea's, that oddly was more popular as an ice cream shop. The ice cream was stocked side-by-side with fish and crab. All merchandise required ice. Customers didn't mind. Business was brisk.
What we aim to do with Emelessence is something similar: combine seemingly unrelated topics that all require the same foundational elements: human insight and creativity.
My wife Nan and I founded Emelessence at Anacortes, Washington in 2006. Our original mission was to provide up-to-date summaries of real estate data and economic reports to a leading affiliated brokerage of an international residential real estate brand. In 2022, we relocated to and registered in the State of Texas. The articles tagged Spheres & Farms™ comprise a legacy simulation project inspired by our real estate work.
Both of us are now at career crossroads. The business conditions that supported the work that we previously delivered, quite profitably so, are changing under the influence of artificial intelligence.
Instead of pushing against the tide, we have decided to pull back and take a deeper look at topics of interest to us where, in different measures, subjectivity, intuition, a lack of prior documentation, or a plurality of non-linear, speculative potential outcomes weigh against the practicality of introducing artificial intelligence in the near term. We have chosen an eclectic group of these topics upon which we will focus Emelessence from here forward.
William Hillis