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Field Notes

Long-form essays from the seam between faith, craft, and AI. Frameworks I'm building in public — drafts before they're polished, ideas before they're proven.

It's Not the Machine, It's the Method
Vibe Wondering

It's Not the Machine, It's the Method

The most-shared critique of Pope Leo's encyclical on AI was written by AI. The lesson almost everyone drew from that is the wrong one.

The Context Is the Moat
IP Lab

The Context Is the Moat

Everyone has the same models now. The thing that compounds isn't the model — it's the context you've spent months handing it. Here's the framework I use to build it on purpose.

Why I Started Over
Brandshow Playbook

Why I Started Over

A note on the rebuild — why I started over, what's coming, and how to follow along.