He gets it.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

The key to happiness is high standards

R.I.P. Charlie Kirk I didn't know Charlie personally. But he did send me a kind message last year. "I love all people" is what he said. If that is any indication of who the man was, then this country has lost someone special today. Partisan politics did not stand in the way

"I'm just flesh and bone, but more importantly, I'm a soul, and that soul is accountable to one being." "I've had an unbelievably blessed life... So praise God. I've been all across the world. I've met with world leaders." "I've flown Air Force One, got to know a president. I

"You are commanded to go do something productive with your life." "To go give and to produce and to risk and to then go sow into other people. That is a Biblical idea that has made the world a profoundly better place." 🙏

zero chance to get through this without crying

Many of us were pondering why the death of Charlie Kirk has affected us so deeply? And then I read a statement, and it sucker punched me. A very powerful statement for Charlie. "The flesh didn’t know him, but the soul did." That hit me so hard. I feel this on every level.

This final singles Ryder Cup 2025 is INCREDIBLE. USA LFG!

This was a particularly moving piece. The struggle of improving one’s lot in life. nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/…

Economic growth is literally everything. People fondly remember the times of high GDP growth and treat the ones with low growth as the dark ages. Growth means positive sum thinking becomes the optimal strategy and this is the bedrock of civic society. We must build more