It's funny to see people burning through hundreds of dollars on AI every month to try to build the next big thing. Granted, this is a great way to learn how AI works, especially on the agentic front. Things are moving so quickly these days. Kudos to those who move fast and break things. They're the ones who are pushing the developers t...

Credit: Lucy (2014) Look at the world today. Pick any polarizing topic. Is ignorance the problem? Truth is not subjective. Thus, chaos.

The following was shared by one of my pastors: "I do not deny that a man may pray without heart and without sincerity. I do not for a moment pretend to say that the mere fact of a person's praying proves everything about his soul. As in every other part of religion, so also in this: there may be deception and hypocrisy. But this I do s...

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. —Psalm 19:1–4 For the scientist who h...

"Life is not a matter of believing our self-centered dreams intensely enough that reality bends around our wishes. The human who self-identifies as a bunny would not sprout long furry ears or poop bunny pellets. The self-identifying wolf wouldn't last long in the wolf pack. The self-identifying eagle wouldn't survive the leap off the s...

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh ar fad. May the Strength of God pilot us. May the Power of God preserve us. May the Wisdom of God instruct us. May the Hand of God protect us. May the Way of God direct us. May the Shield of God defend us. May the Host of God guard us Against the snares of the evil ones, Against temptations of the wo...

Observation: people who have different points of view than me are generally a lot more pleasant to interact with offline than online. I live in a downtown area that has people from all walks of life. I'm friends with neighbors who don't see things how I do, and vice versa. But we're still friends. It's sad how we, as a society, can fig...

It happened. A twenty-something son of a friend had chest pains and dropped dead within minutes. He was healthy. No sign of heart conditions. It's really difficult to not want to blame this on the COVID vaccine. I've seen too many stories on social media that sound eerily similar. I pray that this isn't a regular occurrence. If the vac...

In an hour long conversation with my wife about a major pivot to our nonprofit, we solved a business strategy problem by just saying "let's not do that." The issue was prioritizing three out of nine "things" while giving adequate attention to the remaining six in our marketing. By cutting those pieces out of our marketing material, we ...

Politics is a game and we're the pawns. It's easier to navigate the drama with this perspective. AI is going to eat tech. The boring businesses built on human relationships will quietly thrive. Social chaos and polarization will reach a breaking point. People will eventually be attracted to order and truth.

And so it begins...? I recently soft launched a new productized service. I haven't talked about it anywhere, only added a page about it to a marketing website. Somehow a business accelerator found it. They want to offer $20k + a bunch of perks (that I don't need) for 1% equity. It's sorta enticing and would literally accelerate growth,...

I recently had a conversation with as friend about moving away from Google for my personal email. But why? Gmail works great. There's nothing inherently wrong with it. Here's why: if I'm going to pay for something, I'd rather pay with money vs paying with attention and feeding the advertising machine, especially for stuff I don't want ...

I almost got into a bit of an argument on Twitter about a post that mentioned God. One person replied and asked "whose god?" That question in itself throws logic out the window. The implication is that the mere idea of God is an individual thing. In other words, we can make God whomever we want him to be based on our whims and preferen...

Claiming to be a Christian isn't the same as having a repentant heart. These words from Jesus should be sobering and convicting. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophe...

AI is the current buzz with ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the like. It's probably going to be big. It feels like the businesses who don't lean into AI are eventually going to be outliers. That's okay. Many people like working with people more than working with robots. I'm not keen to jump on the new shiny object bandwagon, but I'll keep an ...

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed The Lord ...

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole ...

Is not human life on earth a time of testing? Who would choose troubles and hardships? You command us to endure them, but not to love them. No-one loves what he has to endure, even if he loves the endurance, for although he may rejoice in his power to endure, he would prefer to have nothing that demands endurance. In adverse circumstan...

I'm on the verge of laughing a new service. The initial price I'm testing is $349 per month. It's a little daunting because it's unknown if it'll work out or not. But I can try. And if it works, and I can get to an average of one customer per state, the gross revenue is over $200k per year. I don't say that arrogantly, nor out of greed...

1. Keep it simple. Business is difficult. Complexity doesn’t help. 2. Don’t try to do it all. It’s impossible to do everything really, really well. 3. Avoid single points of failure. Don’t lose control. Be prepared if something breaks. 4. Don’t chase shiny objects. Things that are proven win over things that are trendy. 5. Support smal...

I joined Twitter in 2008, amassed 1000 followers or so, then deleted my account in 2020 to start fresh. I still can't figure out if using it personally is worth my time and attention. I've got two businesses that I could be more open about. You know, that whole "build in public" idea. They're both B2B and kinda interesting. Both are pi...

“Come, ye thankful people, come; raise the song of harvest home. All is safely gathered in ere the winter storms begin. God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home. All the world is God’s own field, fruit unto His praise to yield, wheat and tares together sow...

I run a little nonprofit that's trying to tackle an incredibly difficult housing problem. My wife and I started it back in 2016 and have regularly had to steer in different directions in response to what we've learned about how the industry works. The problem seems easy to solve until we try to solve it. It's frustrating and the chance...

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from the...

Is truth true? If yes, then we can't have conflicting truths. Doubts and experiences don't change reality. It's good to wrestle with this.

There's lots of hardship and suffering that we collectively experience. It's not uncommon for people to share some of it online. One of the means of supporting people is through prayer. There's a bit of a cynic in me that questions if people actually pray in addition to adding their 🙏 comments. But that's not my point here... I regular...

I know, I know. This is one of those things that people who wear tin foil hats talk about, but it's hard to not question it. Let me preface this by saying that I generally understand how Facebook ads work. I know how to install Facebook's tracking code on websites. I've done it. I know how targeting audiences for paid ads works. I've d...

My daughter and I went down to our local children's museum the other day. I ended up chatting with another mom while our kids played together. This mom and I had never met, and she asked an interesting question... "so what's your story?" Now, there is context that helps this question make sense. I use a wheelchair due to a spinal cord ...

My wife and I were watching Cocomelon last night with our 3 year old daughter (if you know, you know). Out of the blue she says "they don't have phones!" in reference to the [cartoon] parents on the show. That moment hit like a ton of bricks. This kid picks up on everything. Sigh. I'm super intrigued by Techless' Wisephone. The one thi...

These might be the most genius 6 words used on the internet that I've seen recently. They're not entirely true, because the guy (Alex Hermozi) who says it is actively selling you on himself. But the point is that he's not pushing for any immediate monetary exchange, and that is refreshing. Really refreshing. It seems like everyone has ...