My life right now is a feat of knowledge management. That’s one way to put it. But I much rather prefer a metaphor, a comparison to an office I am deeply familiar with and respect. My life is that of a disciple.

Imagine the life of one of the Gospel writers — Matthew or John — following Jesus around 1st century Israel. They were hearing, seeing, and doing extraordinary things they could hardly keep up with. To be sure, they could remember so much more without taking notes, but I’d like to think they were jotting a couple things down during the Sermon on the Mount.

In this new role, I traffic to and fro across the Atlanta metro fielding phone calls, virtual calls, in-person meetings, working lunches so I can better support the dynamic teams and complex operations. It feels good to be working in the physical world and not the virtual world, but now, not every meeting has an AI summary to look back on. The task before me is managing information as being hurled at me.

On top of that, it’s one of those seasons in life where God wants to do something in your heart. You know it, you feel the tugging, the stretching, the pressure, the “what just happened” moments — and for the first time, Aubrey and I get to experience it together. It is as real as the work that needs to get done in the day to day. The invitation is into deeper into life with God, and part of the call is stewarding the revelation that God is giving.

My knowledge system has been keeping me afloat. Ask me about my Supernote sometime, I won’t nerd out on the details, but the main function is Capture > Surface > Reflect. No AI analysis — my brain is on the hook.

At its core, this is the same flywheel of inputs and outputs that I have become all-too-familiar with in my creative practice. Come to find out, knowledge management is important for more things than writing an essay in the morning. It’s more important than taking notes to pass an exam at the end of the semester. It’s more important than creating SOPs so your business can run more efficiently. What we make of our inputs and outputs is what we make of the world.

I say all this to say: Knowledge management is is central to how I am experiencing life right now — professionally, spiritually, and creatively.

One way that I have been processing information is a running list of thoughts and ideas called ‘goodseeds’. I have come to love the hierarchical system of bullets and sub-bullets — parent thoughts and child thoughts that are related to the one that came before it — it keeps the ideas short and fluid. Often to my surprise, one bullet flows to the next and I have a long string of thoughts.

My hope is to release ‘goodseeds’ on a weekly basis. Disclaimers in advance:

They are fun, casual, and raw — not intended to be an actual opinion or belief.
Sometimes they are notes on what others are saying that are not my own convictions.
Every day, a new date heading will appear, but some days I won’t drop any seeds. This is on purpose, so I can see trends of inputs and outputs.
They are personal short-hand, so they might not always make sense, but potentially thought-provoking to the right ears.

Here are all my goodseeds so far. Next Sunday, I hope to have planted more.

October 11, 2026

Happy anniversary!

October 10, 2026

October 9, 2026

Happy birthday!

October 8, 2026

The Spanish hope for wait and hope are the same
Someday would love to read GK CHESTERTON ON HUMOR

October 7, 2026

Men’s Bible Study
- The call to intercession
  - “Your Spirit is stronger than my words”
    - Not to solve, not to fix, not to make understand.
  - Our role as men, as husbands, is to intercede for our family.
    - Think about it: What an honor to lead and love our wives in this realm.
      - An honor from her — trust.
      - An honor from God.
- What does THE TEST look like? (1 Thess 2:4)
  - Generosity
    - With abundance and with lack
  - Fear of being misunderstood
  - Pride of being right
- Supernatural worldview views prayer as war
  - Against strongholds, powers, and forces
  - God’s blessing will come — our prayers are to bind and loose

October 6, 2026

How we learn a pattern is like how we learn language
- We don’t memorize, we feel. We intuit. We test. We repeat.
  - A baby muttering noises until they articulate words, suddenly the world responds positively. Rinse and repeat.
    - Language Transfer - Not memorizing Spanish but practicing sentences from what is known in English and Latin
- The same is true for writing or a creative practice
  - We ought not feel like we need to practice perfectly
  - We ought to ship work that is like a baby tries to talk until we discover the pattern
    - Writing is unique in this way, as a vehicle for understanding, we can mutter ideas that may not make sense or truths that may be false
      - But the act of seeing and hearing and correcting leads us to truth.
- What all is made up of patterns?
  - Pattern = system?

October 5, 2026

Old Testament Kerem
- Holy war against non image-bearers
  - Spawn of fallen angels opposed to Yahweh and his people
- Examples of non image bearers today?
  - AI/robots? Humans grown in a lab?
Devotional: Fully focused on people as image bearers
- Fundamentally created good, gold, pure — just been rolling around in death.
Start over on writing recent piece
- Laboring over every word
- Restart Side by side
  - Shipping bits and pieces to the website
- Emerging themes: identity, belonging

October 3, 2026

Conversation lens/hack
- Fully focused on the other person

September 25, 2026

Old Testament synchronism. Are we living different? (Jeremiah 42-43:3)
Devil loves sincerity: “I don’t feel anything wrong with it.”
- Sincere but disobedient worship is not accepted in the eyes of God.
Prophetic benchmarks
- What do you fear losing in hearing this?
- Sermon on the Mount / Beatitudes
- Priestly words—Jeremiah was a priest and a prophet.
“Men are physically born to be intercessors.” Where they at?
Easy to baptize anything and everything
Heliopolis / Obelisk — characteristics of a culture
- belief in something (e.g. algorithm, philosophy, sports, ideas)
- image of that belief
- a priesthood that maintains the system
- a monument (e.g. temple, flagship)
- Jesus tore down these things. John said Jesus was raised this up “for this purpose.” To tear down these strongholds.

September 23, 2026

I’ve always had a hard time formulating an opinion before writing it down
Tale of two mentors
- One mentor told me he likes it when employees buy a new car, because that means a new loan, which means they are incentivized to stay employed at his company
- Another paid my entire auto loan off upon becoming his employee
The difference between TV shows and movies
- I’ve been struggling with The Foundation season 2
- Each episode MUST leave on a cliffhanger, which leaves me feeling perpetually empty
  - And annoyingly, thinking about the story’s loose ends at random
- This is opposed to appreciating the full arc of a movie, the meta narrative, the director’s vision/philosophy/worldview as one coherent piece of art

September 17, 2026

Life of Jesus on Founders Pod, naturally, paints Jesus’ ministry in the light of a mission-driven venture
- Recruited followers from other trades—“I will make you fishers of men”
- Required full-time effort—“You must leave your father and mother”
- Jesus had the charisma and gravitas of a visionary but maintained the compassion of a good shepherd
Money did not stick to Jesus
- The Jesus venture was well-funded.
  - Johannes
  - Nicodemus
- But those funds were not sticky to Jesus
  - Foxes have holes and birds have nests but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head
- Money is not sticky. Mammon is sticky.
  - How do you get bouncy?
The depths of suffering and the heights of wealth reveal whom you serve
- God or Mammon?
  - What are you NOT willing to give up? (Matt 19:16)
  - What ARE you willing to suffer? (2 Cor 11:23)
  - How precious is the pearl? (Matt 13:45)
What is suffering in 2026?
- President Barack Obama said, “If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you’d be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you’d be born into — you wouldn’t choose 100 years ago. You wouldn’t choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You’d choose right now.”
  - The Veil of Ignorance: without bias, you opt for self-preservation, thereby selecting an environment (society, system, time period) that is conducive to the “worst of the best” circumstances
    - The highest likelihood of self preservation is this modern life.
    - 2026 is, statistically speaking, most adept for safety, wealth, quality of life.
- “No matter how weak and negative a good man is, he has as many sins on him as he can bear.”
  - No matter how rich
  - No matter what era
  - All men have as many sins on him as he can bear
- “For the honest, sensitive soul, this is crushing… especially when it is a good man that we aspire to be.”
  - Virtue is not enough.
  - A vision of the good life is not enough.
- To know, to become acquainted with, to implicate into suffering, is to truly is to be human.
In a 2016 speech, President Barack Obama said, “If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you’d be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you’d be born into — you wouldn’t choose 100 years ago. You wouldn’t choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You’d choose right now.”

September 7, 2026

Seeking a portrait of Jesus
- Behold him
- Make him beautiful
- Make his name great
  - All else will fall into place
    - Evangelism included
- New Testament portrait of Jesus is rich
  - Anecdotal
    - Gospels
      - Historical POV (Have mercy on my historical accuracy brain)
  - Poetic
    - Union with God
    - Defeat of death
    - Transcendental
      - All things are through him, to him, and for him
      - In him all things hold together
  - Pastoral
    - Sermon on the mount
    - Ministry to people, to the least of these
      - He is found among the least of these
        
        Behold him, and he will lead you here
Wendell Berry documentary: Look & See
- Green revolution resembles AI revolution
  - “Adapt or die”

September 6, 2026

ALL my strength is in you
- All my reason
- All my identity
- All my purpose
- All my conviction
- All my belief
Non-platform digital documentation
- Written notes, seeds, photos
  - Assumes I am documenting regularly
    - Assumes a system, if not a habit
- Collage, long portrait canvas
- Old Kings K site
- Weekly? Monthly?

September 4, 2026

Good mentors give you space to think
- Good leaders are not always good mentors
  - A good mentor and a bad leader is a friend
  - A good leader and a bad mentor is a boss
Means & Meaning will expand beyond technology
- “Means to live” is so much more broad
  - Financial
  - Communal
  - Spiritual
  - Physical
- Include documentary photography - in time
- Hopeful, anticipatory, expectant

September 3, 2026

Human Flourishing Conference
- Jon Clifton (CEO of Gallup)
  - Lack of meaningful work is a major contributor to the dissatisfaction of the sample size
  - Always asked about his faith
    - Is Jon Clifton a Christian?
  - Next step in research project is “Global Panel” research initiative
    - Qualitative
    - In Person
    - Life long
- from measuring life expectancy and mortality rates to measuring how people are living
- “Contextual systems”
  - Forest fire - tragedy or blessing?
    - Who is the Sequoia, and who is a shrub?
  - “Every system is perfectly designed to get its outcome.”
    - “Show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome.”
  - Perhaps the point is to be aware of the incentives and the players?
    - Most of society is a shrub…
- 5 forms of capital
  - Financial
  - Human
  - Social
  - Intellectual
  - Spiritual
- GDP and a flourishing society sometimes have an inverse relationship
  - Egypt and Brexit as examples
    - Booming economy and collapse of nation-state
- Expanding the global flourishing study in domain
  - Artificial intelligence
  - Soon, Virtual reality
    - First you measure the effect on society
      - Human in the loop
    - Then you progress as the technology is adopted
      - Human on the loop
      - Human out of the loop
- “Love is the essence of flourishing…”
  - ”… Not lifeless bodies in a system.”
    - Love implies bodies
    - Love implies surprise
    - Love implies sacrifice
    - Love implies risk
    - Love cannot be systematized
How does UBI not increase inflation and become null?
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were William Blake paintings before they were U2 albums
“AI is a question about adaptation, because of its inevitability and speed.”
- What does technology want?
  - Ubiquity
  - Emergence
- What do humans want?
  - Consider America
    - Manifestation
  - Consider Darwin
    - Evolution
    - Emergence
  - Consider Christianity
    - Rule
    - Dominion
    - Authority
      - Emergence was bestowed, not earned, not won
        
        Psalm 8
        
        Genesis 1
      - Therefore entrusted
        
        Bestowal and entrusting is different
        
        But Leadership is indeed necessary
        
        Indeed slippery
        
        Consider Christ

Intro to goodseeds