How to Read This Series
A Bear for Every Hour
A Bear for Every Hour is a field guide for surviving worst-case moments in a world without clear villains or heroes.
Structured around a 12-hour cycle, the series draws from the author’s background in physics, where systems are understood not through blame, but through patterns, energy transfer, and timing. Each “hour” represents a different state of human experience, mapping how people move through confusion, pressure, adaptation, and recovery over time.
Told through short, deceptively simple stories, the books explore what happens when systems fail quietly, crowds act on assumption, and no one steps in to fix what’s unfolding. There are no cartoon antagonists—only people, procedures, and feedback loops that collide in ways that leave real consequences.
Each story helps the reader answer three practical questions:
What is actually happening?
What energy is required and what energy is being wasted?
When is it time to engage, retreat, document, or disengage?
Rather than offering moral verdicts, the series functions as a Worst-Case Scenario Guide for social and institutional breakdowns, using observation instead of instruction. Readers are not told what to think; they are shown how to recognize phase changes—moments when persistence becomes loss, and withdrawal becomes strategy.
Accessible enough to read in a single sitting yet designed to linger, A Bear for Every Hour applies systems thinking to everyday life. It is for readers who have followed the rules, acted in good faith, and still found themselves unprotected—and want a way to navigate the world as it is, not as it’s supposed to be.
