Finding your voice can be difficult. We know the exact moment we found ours. In Volume II, it is when we wrote, “Relax Sherlock” when discussing how Vilfredo Pareto became known as the father of fascism. Vilfredo Pareto’s big mistake is he wanted to end war by amplifying conflict with more conflict to keep those in power, in power. We became a different person after our “Relax Sherlock” moment. Hopefully this book helps you discover your voice.

Now the obligatory paragraph that the author has some level of intelligence. We have a PhD in physics from Cornell. Between 2001 and 2020 we were technical lead on image sensor projects that have brought in over $1 billion in sales. We have over 30 patents, some of which are in cell phone cameras today. Besides Wichita and Ithaca, we’ve lived in Los Angeles, Los Alamos, Clemson, Houston, and Rochester NY. We had the honor of working with John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor. One of his last papers starts with our name (Physical Review Letters 64, 2297, May 1990). In that paper Bardeen recalculates a scaling argument we made to explain a large data set. In Volume II of this book we will use similar scaling arguments to explain an even larger data set, war and genocide.

Finally, first semester in college we were assigned to write about what the east and west coasts thought about Kansas and fly over country. During that exercise we realized our father was a chemistry professor from Omaha and our mother a farm girl from Paxico with a nickname. That literally makes us the love child of the Wizard of Oz and the Wicked Witch of the West. Since that assignment we sign all our hobby projects Ozmioz.