October 12, 2026
Intro to goodseeds
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…
Writing
October 11, 2026
Pattern practice
We learn patterns like 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 according to the correct pattern. Rinse and repeat. The same…
October 9, 2026
Three dimensional gifts
Gift giving can be the worst. Like when you send your grandma your Amazon list and you unwrap a random selection of those things on Christmas morning. If you're lucky, however, you one person who is close.
October 8, 2026
Eternity and decay (Part 3)
Vacant apartments remind me of exploring abandoned farmhouses in West Texas as a kid -- the fragments of their ruin tell a story. The same is true ruins of a civilization, the same is true of the human life. While…
October 7, 2026
Time and decay (Part 2)
I continue to explore the connection of people and physical space. In a previous post, I compared the experience of stepping into stranger's home to "latent space," a place where stories are formed based on bits of surrounding information. Perhaps…
October 6, 2026
The story of a space (Part 1)
Our homes tell a story. They tell of our habits, our routines, our values. They tell a story of the things that repeatedly happen there -- in our living rooms, our kitchens, our bedrooms and bathrooms. Some don't know their…
September 28, 2026
The paradox of limitation
There is a time to be born, and a time to die ... a time to break down, and a time to build up ... a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. The history…
September 26, 2026
The end of the beginning
See you later, Substack.
September 8, 2026
I got a job
The story continues
August 31, 2026
Consider a “Family Foundation” for using AI
These 3 activities teach concepts of formation and create a document that can be used for guardrails by AI
August 26, 2026
An Exercise in Self-Articulation
Discovering the portrait of a teacher and a student, an educator and an expert, a philosopher and a practitioner, a counselor and a coach.
August 24, 2026
3 Lessons from conversations with strangers
“So sorry, I didn’t prep at all for this, who are you again?” is how one meeting began, but it ended with a hug.
August 21, 2026
The cost of attention
Mother Nature of the metaverse
August 18, 2026
The miraculous and the mundane
Sometimes, life breaks in.
August 15, 2026
Tradition as empathy
Information makes it easy for us to form opinions, but not convictions.
August 14, 2026
Formation machines
Becoming a certain type of person, be it a virtuous person, a trustworthy person, a resilient person, must be anchored in the embodied reality of limitation, risk, and dependence on other humans.
August 13, 2026
A PITCH: FAMILY-CENTERED AI MENTORSHIP
The following pitch was drafted hours before a pitch competition hosted by Anthropic.
August 12, 2026
Cliff jumping
If you know, then you know.
August 11, 2026
Morning behavior
When structure in somebody's life does not exist, actions default to the nearest desirable object.
August 9, 2026
50 conversations
Means & Meaning begins with coffee, curiosity, and people
August 6, 2026
People are the Proximate
I find myself listening to the charismatic discussion leader, surrounded by some 20 exceptionally kind strangers, wondering about my vocation.
August 5, 2026
Concrete Analysis
This daily note will be an attempt to synthesize some recent discoveries, epiphanies, and overlaps that relate to my career.
August 4, 2026
Passion and Mastery
I believe there are those who create from raw passion, and those who create from refined expertise.
August 3, 2026
Why write about technology?
An exercise of thought
July 29, 2026
Moving
Moving from, moving to, and moving through.
July 28, 2026
Social Platforms
Isolation is the end game, and so we must counter.
July 27, 2026
Meta Glasses
I wore the glasses and felt the power, like Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. Except Frodo didn't have a sultry female voice in his head when he said, "Hey Meta?"
July 26, 2026
Attention & Patience
Journalling is not the beginning of a conversation with yourself, only that which is seen. Prayer is not the beginning of a conversation with God, only that which is heard. Actions, too, are a byproduct of long-held beliefs. Beliefs about…
July 25, 2026
Doom Coding
Vibe coding is closer to doom-scrolling than reading long-form content.
July 24, 2026
AI Empathy
Perhaps this is the beginning of understanding AI not as magic, nor as a slot machine, but as scientific and mathematical innovation that can be applied instead of abused.
July 23, 2026
Community in the Metaverse
We are in the middle of a generation that doesn't know any different and a generation that doesn't know any better. We have the acumen to participate but the knowledge that makes us think twice. The inevitability of the digital…
June 26, 2026
How to Respond to AI Doing your Job Better Than You
I belong to a certain generation and I work in tech, so it’s only natural that I interrogate my dad’s AI habits, especially in light of the fact that Dad-writing-a-sermon-every-week has been a reality that my family has known for…
June 19, 2026
The Existential Underbelly of AI Agents
I embarked on a spiritual experience the first time I was offered an AI agent. It claimed to have a personality, remember my preferences, and get better at anticipating my needs the more I used it. For context, I spend…
May 2, 2026
Means & Meaning
This is the beginning of a conversation about technology & the pursuit of a meaningful vocation. The conversation began within myself several months ago, after I read a certain techno-optimist manifesto. The ideas I encountered in that article were a…
April 3, 2026
To Learn the Art of Gift Giving
The old man was about to do what no other person in the sleepy southern town would ever think to do. Not that they ever would, anyway, but even if they wanted to, they couldn’t. This endeavor was for one…
February 27, 2026
A Telos for Vocation — Implicated for Love's Sake
Once, a great storyteller was in a toolshed, observing a beam of light through a hole; noting the floating dust particles, the contrast of the light and pitch blackness around it— …Then I moved, so that the beam fell on…
February 10, 2026
Loving Our Way to Vocation
There may never be an arrival, but it is a holy thing to attend to the present, even if only a signpost toward the hope we have in a bigger story.
February 2, 2026
What Technology Wants
I am not a techno-optimist. I’m a techno-curiost. And what a time to be alive and curious. Large language models are redefining work and creativity. The lines between billionaire and politician are blurring. All while we build infrastructure that marks…
December 26, 2025
Taking Advice from AI
I have a confession. About a month ago, I copied and pasted a self-help prompt from LinkedIn into ChatGPT. I didn’t even read the whole thing. I’m not sure why I did it. But I did. And it changed part…