What Comes Next

Hello again, brothers and sisters. It's time to evolve 🔜

If you’re reading this, thank you. You, all by yourself, are proof of my hope that technology can be used to do good things!

This is usually where you would find our weekly letter, something longish and rambling that examines some abstract thoughts in the regions of the future, Christianity, and Web3. I hope you’ll forgive a week’s hiatus as we prepare a new stage in this project. I never could have guessed four months ago that you would be reading and spreading the work I’ve been doing, or that I would meet new friends and discover a whole new world of genuine community online. Thank you, and here’s what's coming next.

I want to continue the essays that have been our standard weekly fare so far. They will continue to be focused on more philosophical and abstract questions, and we’ll call them Manifestos from now on. Because I want to do more research and make room for new types of work, you’ll start to see Manifestos less often, probably biweekly or monthly. This will also let me bring online new types of work that we can file under different categories. These are all just possibilities right now, but I’m getting excited to branch out into some new ways to explore the future together.

Soon you might see in-depth book reviews, where I can look at the works that influenced the way I see the future as well as find new sources to sift. I am planning a new series of more practical, down-to-earth essays where we can take a look around us, make some careful predictions, and focus on how we should live as a result. You might even see long-form discussions of Scripture with the goal of applying it to modern daily life, probably starting with the Book of Ecclesiastes. There’s always a podcast, of course, and I’m still thinking about how I could drop something that you might look forward to and not just another talking head session.

I also am looking to bring these discussions to other places around the internet. I’ve already recorded an episode for a podcast I was kindly invited to guest on (thanks Michael!) so you should hear more about that soon. I’m hoping to do more of that in the future because I really enjoyed hearing somebody else talk about the ideas we’re interested in, and not just my internal monologue. Maybe I’ll start setting up my own interviews soon.

It’s going to be a lot of change and I hope you’ll be patient with me as I nail down the new schedule and learn some new formats. In the meantime, there is something you can do to help! I don’t talk about this around here much but this is totally a passion project and every one of you who upgrades to a paid subscription fills me with surprise and joy all over again. I’m not offering you any utility or value for that subscription specifically, other than the knowledge that you’re supporting another unique corner of the internet just out of kindness. And that’s amazing.

I’ll be in the comments or in my inbox if you want to let me know what you think, give me more ideas or just say hello. Let’s see what the future holds!

WAGMI, Together 😎

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