The Backpack
January 10, 2025
On the first day they issued the backpack before they issued a name. A reflection on corporate identity and the weight of belonging.
Essays on technology, faith, and American industry.
January 10, 2025
On the first day they issued the backpack before they issued a name. A reflection on corporate identity and the weight of belonging.
January 5, 2025
Twenty years. Chapel Hill to Santa Monica. Dogs bark. Beach salt. Birds argue. A cardinal, red punctuation.
December 20, 2025
Los Angeles is a city of distances. I built LA Churches to help Angelenos discover places of worship near them—a simple tool for finding sacred space in the sprawl.
December 12, 2025
Action flowing from contemplation. Obedience embraced publicly. Beauty and slowness. Silence built into systems. Failure accepted when fidelity demands it.
December 8, 2025
Rome reminded me that life itself is mystical. Not only in the great basilicas or marble corridors, but in the hidden corners: a side chapel before dawn, a security guard after 9am Mass, a quiet altar of St. Joseph where silence feels like strength.
October 29, 2025
This week we launched the Trade Schools Map, a live, searchable directory of 1,031 schools across all 50 states teaching the trades that keep America running: welding, diesel, HVAC, machining, and more.
October 22, 2025
The past few months have been a blur of building in public, meeting with manufacturers, defense innovators, investors, and policymakers, all toward one goal: rebuilding America's industrial backbone.
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