High Agency Christianity
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I. Turn the other cheek has come to imply a doormat-like quality that has made the Christian way seem cowardly and complicit in the face of injustice. Walter Wink,
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After over a decade of atheism, I found faith in Jesus Christ in 2024.
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Companies I Believe In
I've had the honor of investing in my brilliant friends and colleagues. Check out the insanely cool companies below.
- American Talent Labs: Reimagining vocational training with AI-resilient trades.
- Atoms: Physical automation to transform industry and move the world.
- Bitizenship: Hold Bitcoin, get passport.
- Polybee: Increase agricultural profits with autonomous pollination and yield forecasting.
- Portal VR: Motion controls and face tracking for VRChat and Steam games with hardware you already own.
- Substrate: AI-driven financing platform for equipment sales.
- Torque: Onchain incentives platform.
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Posts
What OpenAI's Newest Codex Found In The World's Oldest Codex: Hunting in the Bible
• 19 min read
When I was a kid, my friend's dad found a new largest prime number. He had added one small step to a continuous record humanity has kept alive
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
Antimeme Antichrist
• 5 min read
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
• 1 min read
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-
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
• 2 min read
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
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.