Startup Funeral: Human-Led Assurance
Y Combinator wanted my idea three separate times. It was already dead.
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Signals for saints, skeptics, and system designers.
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A Bard for a Civilization at Dusk
A doctoral student in Beijing asked Christopher Nolan the only real question of The Odyssey press cycle. His answer is the very thing she was asking about.
Science Was Always Philosophy
The new world will force you to remember.
The Magic Word
From shibboleth to passkey, every word guarding your life has an expiration date.
Law and Order (III): Why Christians Keep Choosing Caesar
What outsiders and insiders need to understand about churches that put their faith in political power.
Vibe-coding Religion
Create a ticket: the tech industry keeps building religions by accident.
America at 250: Twenty-Five True Things
Notes from someone who left, and laments its legacy.
Silicon Valley's Agency Won't Save You
The panic over agency, taste, and the underclass isn't a philosophy. It's metaphysical amnesia: forgetting what a person is.
Political Vaporware
The monopoly on force is over. What gets built next?
AI Doesn't Know What It's Optimizing For
The doomer and the accelerationist founder are both missing the same variable.
Noah Smith Is Right About the Pigs
He called factory farming a sin, and reached in a footnote for God. He’s not alone.
Diagnosing Demons, Drones, and Disclosure
Why the debunker and the demonologist make the same mistake about aliens and AI
Heat, AI, and the Temptation of the Apocalypse
Living through the apocalypse is the ultimate vibe killer.
Using Proxy Metrics for Startups and Life
Four articles, one diagnosis
Law and Order (II): When Legality Becomes a Moral Alibi
The one where readers are suggested to confront that biblical order can still be morally monstrous.
Law and Order (I): Why Christians Keep Baptizing Coercion
The beginning of a series on authority, sovereignty, and why the Church keeps mistaking power for righteousness.
Oracle: Empire of Screens
Jeremiah speaks beyond the grave
AI, Power, and the Ends of Leadership
Revisiting a 2016 essay in a world of agentic software and fraying orders.
Pentecost to Protocols: The Network Church
The early Church was humanity's first successful decentralized autonomous organization
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