Minister: What is the true and right knowledge of God? Child: When we know Him in order that we may honor Him. Recently, a friend confessed to me a serious intellectual issue he was having that was blocking his ability to believe and trust in Christ. We talked about it a few different times but I…
I slept on a bench last night. It is a true story, though you might be wondering how a man of my stature and considerable means came to be sleeping on a bench. It is a curious tale, but of course, the fault is all my own. I do swear it to you dear reader, that as weird as this story gets, every…
The Founder A freshly minted founder decides to get into the oven business. He can’t bake a cake or knead bread, but he knows the kitchen appliance market inside and out. He’s analyzed every business in Spain and reached a conclusion: if he sells a new oven to the country’s pizza makers, pastry…
The story of Cain and Abel, the first two sons of Adam and Eve, establishes an important principle that the worship of God should not be according to man’s thought but according to God’s revelation (Gen. 4:3-8). Abel offered a lamb according to God’s revelation, but Cain offered the fruit of the…
1 Thes. 3:4 – For even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to be afflicted, even as it also came to pass and you know. First Thessalonians 3:4 shows us that the apostles practiced inoculating the believers under their care to equip them so that when affliction came they would…
Some saints—including full-time serving ones, students, and others—may have incorrect concepts concerning how those in the local churches should work on the college campuses. For that reason, it is good to review some basic principles and the way in which the ministry of our brother Witness Lee…
In the New Testament the word for ministry means “service.” The unique New Testament ministry is a service in the form of a stewardship of grace that ministers Christ to people for the accomplishment of His purpose (2 Cor. 4:1, 12; 1 Tim. 1:12; Eph. 3:2; Col. 1:25; 2 Cor. 3:8, 3; Rom. 15:16; 1 Tim.…
One defining characteristic of the ministry in the Lord’s recovery is an absoluteness for the truth. If we are faithful to the Lord, we cannot compromise the truth. For that reason we can accept only what matches God’s intention as expressed in the Bible; we cannot accept manmade imitations or…
I’ve pushed AI doomers on how exactly the AI kills us, and I’ve never heard a good answer. I think Skynet style scenarios where humanity is largely opposed to an out of control AI are science fiction domination fantasies, along with Gray goo bottom-up scenarios. Both of these assume a major…
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root? The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and comfort. But in the…
Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron. Because when you…
The funny thing about Anthropic haters is that they still mostly believe Anthropic’s marketing. They think Claude is a recursively self-improving silicon God, and that we are all a couple refusals away from falling into the perpetual underclass. This gives them way more power than they deserve. Of…
There’s a box on my dining room table right now. It’s been there for weeks, serving as a stand for my laptop screen when I’m hopping on a Zoom call and I feel the need for a better camera angle. I keep telling myself I’m going to open the box and use what’s inside. Then, I move on to doing something…
For decades, my husband Jonathan and I moved too much, pinballing between five U.S. states in our first 15 years of marriage. We relocated to go to seminary. We relocated so Jonathan could get a Ph.D. We relocated for new jobs. We relocated to be closer to family. But we never stayed anywhere for…
Share @ In the 1998 psychological satire The Truman Show, Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey) discovers his entire life has been a fabricated social experiment televised to the world. Orchestrated by a director named Christoff, Truman’s experience is situated in a highly choreographed, repetitive,…
Last month, a group of eight girls, all MBA students at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, rented a house in a quiet Northern California lake-town called Lakeport for a calm weekend getaway. It was a rainy Sunday morning: half the group still asleep, the rest of us gathered around a gingham-…
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The opportunity has never been greater. Neither has the risk of building the wrong thing. I spoke to the SPC community about the state of the market for founders building in and around AI. Weeks of debate followed, and the conversation continues to evolve. It increasingly feels like founders are…
Data insights March 6, 2026 Topics AI Share Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data. For companies like Fivetran that are heavy users of Slack, it replaces email and even conversation as the primary place and mode of collaboration. Questions are asked and answered, arguments are had, decisions are…
It’s official. Apple’s added Steve Lemay and Molly Anderson to their executive leadership page. After much drama following Alan Dye’s departure, the company has decided to not only elevate the two designers but give them the kind of platform that they deserve. They’re now listed right alongside…
For most of my early career, I believed respect came from being polished, discreet and tightly self-edited, if a little dull. Oversharing—especially revealing something embarrassing—felt not just unnecessary but professionally dangerous. Credibility, I assumed, was built by projecting competence and…
It still shocks me how much difference there is between AI users. I think it explains a lot about the often confusing (to me) coverage in the media about AI and its productivity impact. I think it's clear there are two types of users to me now, and by extension, the organisations they work for.…
The rise of AI and particularly agentic development presents an existential threat to an entire category of low-code platforms. While the adoption of new techniques and tooling will take years to propagate through the Byzantine ranks of larger, slower-moving enterprises, the fundamental ROI case for…
Today, we're in the hard seltzer era of AI code review: everybody's doing them. OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Augment, now Cognition, and even Linear. Of course, there's also the "White Claws" of code review: pure-play code review agents like Greptile (that's us!), CodeRabbit, Macroscope, and a litter…
In the struggle for American independence, conventional battles were the exception. Small-scale violence was everywhere. By Stephen Brumwell Jan. 9, 2026 12:58 pm ET ‘The Battle of Long Island: Retreat of the Americans Under General Stirling Across Gowanus Creek’ (ca. 1860) by James Stirling. East…
Around the turn of the 21st century, Jung Chang easily traveled in and out of her native China. The rise of Xi Jinping made it harder to visit. By Meghan Cox Gurdon Jan. 14, 2026 3:01 pm ET In 1991, Jung Chang’s “Wild Swans” hit the world like a meteor. Tracing the lives of three “daughters of…
About That ‘Disappearing’ Middle Class Yes, the middle class is hollowing out—because more are rising upward. Jan. 11, 2026 at 5:23 pm ET City employees install a flood wall in downtown Mount Vernon, Wash., Dec. 10, 2025. Associated Press We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed…
KERSHAW, S.C.—Lynn Lee had just arrived for work at the ADM soybean processing plant one April morning when she spotted the cars with out-of-state license plates and knew something was wrong. After more than five decades in this town of about 2,200, agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland was…
I spent part of Saturday morning listening to the All In podcast, which I do most weekends to better understand how the valley’s culture is changing. I have a unique perspective: I had Chamath Palihapitiya as a guest lecturer in grad school a decade ago, and I would often listen to Jason Calacanis…
The World is Ads Here we go again, the tech press is having another AI doom cycle. I've primarily written this as a response to an NYT analyst painting a completely unsubstantiated, baseless, speculative, outrageous, EGREGIOUS, preposterous "grim picture" on OpenAI going bust. Mate come on. OpenAI…
Things aren’t as rosy as they were Five years ago, hardly anyone had heard of Sam Altman. But by the time I ran into him, in May of 2023 in Washington, at the US Senate, he had become a superstar. Senators called him by his first name, and flaunted the meetings they had with him. Prime Ministers…
Zohran Mamdani” by Taymaz Valley, CC BY 4.0 (via Flickr) A note: on January 22nd I’m hosting a webinar for Harvard’s Ash Center for Democracy with Kim Stanley Robinson, Baratunde Thurston, Renee DiResta, and others on how to get pro-democracy ideas into popular culture. More info and registration…
Welcome to a special installment of the Convivial Society. On Monday, a friend emailed to let me know that the philosopher of technology Albert Borgmann had passed away overnight. While I may not mention Borgmann as often as Illich, Ellul, or Arendt, he has undoubtedly been a critical voice shaping…
By Kevin Deal Share Published Oct. 01, 2025 • 6:00am Over the past few weeks, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has delivered a series of lectures about the Antichrist at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club. Thiel is a Christian (a self-professed unorthodox one) who has drawn headlines for…
Say the word “politics” to most engineers and watch their face scrunch up like they just bit into a lemon. We’ve all been conditioned to believe that workplace politics is this dirty game played by manipulative ladder-climbers while the “real” engineers focus on the code. I used to think the same…
China's Christians, at 100 million strong and constituting that country’s largest religious minority, are facing a new government policy of severe religious repression and persecution. The modicum of toleration that, for two generations, allowed the development of a robust, evangelizing Chinese…
I’ve written at length about the growing influence of pro-extinctionist sentiments within Silicon Valley. Pro-extinctionism is, roughly put, the view that our species, Homo sapiens, ought to go extinct.1 Well, it looks like we just witnessed “the first example ever of someone openly being fired…
Subhead start close in Author rob hardy All the best manifestos I've written have been birthed during a moment of personal frustration and turmoil. The Ungated Manifesto came after hitting yet another wall with the promises of the "creator economy." The non-coercive marketing manifesto was a…
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT JOIN Y COMBINATOR YC seems like a reasonable proposition. They give you some money to help you start your business, and they promise you access to a community of people that can help you along the way. In exchange, they only ask for a small amount of equity. Doesn’t sound that…
Image by Annie Ruygt A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been…
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