Who Is Israel?
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It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Romans 9:6 Check out this wonderfully viral clip of
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After over a decade of atheism, I found faith in Jesus Christ in 2024.
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Antimeme Antichrist
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antimeme (noun): an idea, fact, or entity that erases or prevents knowledge of itself from being remembered, recognized, or transmitted after it is perceived. I. Sometimes a book is so
Ark of Jesus
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One of the most astounding things about the Bible is how deep the connections are. For example: Noah's ark rested on the same day as Jesus was resurrected--thousands
I Wear This Gold Chain With A Cross
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The phrase "became Christian" doesn't sound quite right, because in my limited understanding, what actually happens is a switch deep within you flips; you realize you&
Spacemaking
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One thing I loved about living in Singapore were the plants. Great, big, leafy trees; vines draped over the side of a building; palm fronds framing the gleaming skyscrapers. It
A Sunday Afternoon Project
• 4 min read
Sam Altman said there are two kinds of startups: 1. the ones that build for models as they are today, and 2. the ones that build for models as they
Risk Intelligence
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A friend wrote this book I read about ten years ago. I understood that I didn't understand risk. I was a "word thinker"--someone who would
The Sculptor’s Framework
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Is there depth and complexity our inner selves, or are we shallow? In The Mind is Flat, Nick Chater argues the latter. Perhaps we are akin to low-grade LLMs predicting
A List of Really Obvious Things
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Perhaps the least obvious thing is that the most obvious things are not obvious. Common sense is uncommon. Simple things are hard. Since I discussed this with my friend, Jake,
Companies Start From Problems, Problems Start From Worldviews
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The biggest mistake when I tried to start a company was thinking it was about finding a problem: the real problem is not having a worldview. What does it mean
What is a mathematician's favorite fruit?
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A parsimon.
NFT Nation
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Communities are built around third places Meet Ladonia: a micronation with an online community. Though only a fraction of the declared citizens are within the declared geographic perimeter at any
Why Are NFTs Valuable?
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You're Not Paying For Pixels The right-click-save-as guys often remark that because they and everyone else can see images without paying, NFTs are not valuable. However, the opposite
Good Businesses Improve Lives
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Even founders fundraising slip into status harvesting instead of company building. A friend of mine runs a great company. Chip hasn't gone to college and can't
iPhone (Coinbase Supported)
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A big reason software is free is users pay to display. We may write the code, and we may rent computers to serve the code, but the rendering, interaction, and