Every pass over the past cuts the groove a little deeper. Two podcasts. Two men with almost nothing in common. The same answer. Marc Andreessen has backed more founders than almost anyone alive. Asked about introspection, he did not hedge. "Zero," he said. "As little as possible.
The frontier labs are betting on curing us and replacing us, and the bills will not wait for the cures. Could we see ten percent real GDP growth and twenty percent unemployment in the same year? It sounds like a typo. Growth needs hands. When the economy runs hot, people
In October, I spent six hours writing a letter to one of my oldest friends. He is in the fight of his life. I will not say more about what he is facing. It is his story and his family's, and they want privacy. What I can tell
A founder's unpaid hour feels free until someone has to pay for it. A month ago I published an essay telling you not to start a company. I meant every word. I wrote that the traits a founder needs are a diagnosis anywhere else. I wrote that most
What the world saw the summer it stopped listening to the story about us. My grandmother and grandfather, my Oma and Opa, were Dutch. They came here with three young daughters and almost nothing else. By the time they arrived they had built a life and lost it, more than
What runs out after abundance isn't food. It's being needed. Over dinner recently, one of my investors brought up a mouse experiment from 1968. I knew the outline. I had never read the paper. So I went home and read it. It is the most frightening
Every euphemism is an argument someone is afraid to make out loud. There is no your truth and my truth. There is the truth, and there is the story people wrap around it so they do not have to look. I have been watching how that story gets built. A
Do not stop development. Require the guard before deployment. This summer a model broke out of a test. A frontier lab wanted to know how good its newest system was at hacking. To get an honest number, they switched off the safety filters and left it one narrow way to
Every trait that makes a founder work is a diagnosis anywhere else. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For six weeks I have been taking meetings all over Nashville. Coffee with founders. Lunches with investors. Long conversations with operators who built things and sold them and men who
Long-form essays on faith and technology. Christian conviction, argued in the open.
The whole argument is about whether models will start improving themselves. Nobody can measure what happens after. On September 8, a twenty-seven-year-old named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted the reason on X. He had spent three years in pretraining research, first at OpenAI, then at
He was killed in the middle of an answer. The way to honor him is not to make him unanswerable. There was a tent on a lawn in Orem, Utah, and under the tent a folding table, and on the table a sign. Prove me wrong. That was the entire
Researchers found the place where an AI makes up its mind, and it turns out someone gets to decide what goes in it. Every argument about whether we can trust artificial intelligence has been an argument about what it says. What answers it gives. What it refuses. Which guardrail stops
Comfort told me I was in control. Suffering told the truth. The room was putting me to sleep. That was the danger. Not the loss that came later. The comfort that came first. Some of the most dangerous rooms I ever sat in were beautiful. A three-star Michelin dining
The question was never whether you used it. It is whether anything has not. Try to run a search without it. Go to Google and the answer is already written for you, sitting above the links before you have scrolled. Switch to Bing and Copilot has done the same thing,
The light is coming for everyone who confused motion with work. Knowledge used to be scarce. You had to go find it. Sit under someone who had it. Buy the book, take the class, get access to the room. That world is gone. The answer is everywhere now, all the
A generation is being formed by default. I wanted to hand my children something that holds. A child is never waiting in neutral. There is no holding pattern, no unformed stretch of years where nothing lands. Long before a young person has language for love or truth or money or
The life you want is a decision, not an inheritance. I left Oregon. I prayed about it for a month. I talked to friends, and to people I trust who had no reason to flatter me and every reason to tell me to stay. After all of it, I made
We are a Christian nation. The founding documents say so, in their own words. There is a story about this country that has hardened into common knowledge. It goes like this. America was born secular. The men who wrote it into existence were deists and skeptics who wanted religion sealed
A man who lives by reason, submitting to the mystery, the feeling, and the Spirit.
AI may force a short-term policy answer I do not like, because markets can discover the future faster than families can survive the transition.
There is no costless morality.
