Essays on technology, faith, and American industry.
An automated check of NBER working papers found significance stars the papers' own numbers cannot support, leading results that crowd just past the 5% line, and a retirement literature with no shared definition of retired.
The press scaled the word. The factory scaled the hand. AI scales the mind. Agentic AI scales the act. From Gutenberg's Bible to Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, on why friction can be automated and responsibility cannot.
The factory clock stopped at the door. The usage meter follows you into thought. On extension as government, the silent model switch, and why the final extension is never final.
A pilgrimage to the tomb of Blessed Solanus Casey, the Doorkeeper of Detroit, and a week at the Reindustrialize summit. A summit on machines and a saint who answered a door are not as far apart as they seem.
A Pentecost pilgrimage through the sacred spaces of the Big Island, in the footsteps of St. Damien, St. Marianne Cope, and Servant of God Joseph Dutton. The earth shook and the wind howled.
A poem on truth, fluency, and the discipline of refusal. The machine lied because the sentence was smooth.
Eleven doctrines of Catholic social teaching, eleven commitments of BOMForge. A manifesto on dignity, work, and recovering ground truth.
The UCLA Luskin Quality of Life Index just hit a record low of 52. A decade-long trendline, six observations from one Angeleno, and the three questions I will carry into 2027.
Hosanna on Sunday. Crucify Him on Friday. In National Welding Month, we celebrate what holds. There is no resurrection without joining.
Machines are not national artifacts. They're temporary alignments of global supply chains. What actually matters is the vertical stack.
ARK sees a $26T robotics opportunity split between manufacturing and home services. Here's what that means for American manufacturers and why supply chain visibility becomes more critical as robotics scales.
On the first day they issued the backpack before they issued a name. A reflection on corporate identity and the weight of belonging.
Twenty years. Chapel Hill to Santa Monica. Dogs bark. Beach salt. Birds argue. A cardinal, red punctuation.
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.
Action flowing from contemplation. Obedience embraced publicly. Beauty and slowness. Silence built into systems. Failure accepted when fidelity demands it.
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.
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.
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.
Every wheel needs a wheel. Every circuit needs a spark. Robots build robots when the line runs. A poem on motion, fragility, and the hands that teach hands.
Good work, offered to God. Folding laundry, forging steel, debugging code, designing machines. Saints as blueprints for Mondays. A reflection on Catholic social teaching and the dignity of work.