An Introduction to Endwise
Theology for the Age of AI. Proactivity for the Age of Disintegration.
In an age drowning in content, this newsletter is a quiet signal for philosopher-builders — those seeking to live wisely, build meaningfully, and think deeply in a world where meaning has been outsourced to market logic and machine learning.
I started Endwise out of a personal dissonance: the cultural spaces I loved were spiritually shallow, and the spiritual spaces I trusted lacked intellectual ambition. Almost all of my religious friends were casually theological and addicted to various ideologies and media opiates. Almost all of my agnostic friends were passionately exploring Buddhism and obsessed with meaning-making and human prosperity.
As someone who accidentally fell into tech entrepreneurship and hustle culture while finishing a master’s degree in science and religion, I was consistently caught in the middle. I used to think that this was a résumé weakness for which I had to continuously apologize. Now I am convinced that this multipolarity is an impossible strength for an age of liquid modernity and global disruption.
The Germination
This newsletter began in the ruins of a false choice. For too long, I'd been told I had to choose: intellectual rigor or spiritual depth, grind for success or fail for passion, abuse technology or love abusers. Humans excel at saving brainpower compute by simplifying fuzzy stories and abstract objects into clear buckets of black and white. But the most interesting questions — the ones that actually matter — live precisely at the intersections.
Two years ago, I finished a thesis on "A Christian Theology of Science," arguing that metaphysical assumptions are necessary for meaningful engagement with the physical world. Last week, I helped evaluate AI startups potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The same fundamental questions animate both endeavors: What does it mean to be human? Who gets to decide what counts as knowledge? How do we build systems that serve human flourishing?
Endwise exists because these conversations belong together.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
The Interdisciplinary Web
My academic journey began at Arizona State University's Barrett Honors College, where I failed fast, attempting to double-major in Mathematics and Computer Systems Engineering. After scouring every sad-sack program ASU offered at the time, I tripled down on the intersection of science, technology, and society while minoring in philosophy and history. My undergraduate thesis examined how the modern categories of "science" and "religion" were historically constructed — and how their supposed conflict invented politics as we understand it today.
This led me to Biola University for graduate work in Science and Religion, with a concentration in metaphysics, technology, and politics. But even as I was working through Paul Tyson's Christian Platonism and metaphysical assumptions of surveillance state technologists, I was working in Arizona's startup ecosystem, helping launch one of the nation's largest business plan competitions and celebrate the massive accomplishments of those same technologists.
The threads kept weaving together: venture capital as secular eschatology, startup culture as technological monasticism, artificial intelligence as Babel-building bots. I realized I wasn't living a double life — I was living partially dis-integrated by modern institutions that can't quite accommodate.
What You'll Find Here
This newsletter is the fruit of that tension. It exists for people who refuse to compartmentalize belief, vocation, family, and imagination. It’s for
the disenchanted young professional drowning in digital doomerism
the christian, AI-curious, culturally-alienated, and communion-undernourished
the hustler hacking growth by day and haunted for meaning by night
the wage slave who lives to witness wink-wink culture-war dunk-takes
the single parent wondering how to create and sustain a loving household with broken relationships and iPad kids under the blue light of dying empires
Endwise is a journal for philosopher-builders — those who want to live wisely, think clearly, and build meaningfully in the ruins of modernity. I’m writing from the space between the Kingdom and the codebase, between tradition and transformation, between the ache of disillusionment and the stubborn hope that some small sacred piece still holds in each conversation and keystroke.
These papers will be built to deliver you novel connections and frank curiosity that the mainstream can’t afford. These aren’t sermons or hot takes. Some posts are adapted from old academic papers (like my thesis on natural theology and fine-tuning). Others are speculative, connecting seemingly unrelated topics: the metaphysics of resurrection and embodied AI, or the political theology of superhero movies.
Types of Essays
Theology of Science and Technology: Examining the metaphysical implications of our tools. If humans are created co-creators, what does it mean to build artificial minds? How do we understand political authority when algorithms increasingly govern human behavior?
Cultural Archeology: Deep readings of films, literature, and media that shape our spiritual imagination. Why does Weapons resonate with Christian eschatology? What theological assumptions drive Silicon Valley's narratives? How do fantasy worlds illuminate political possibilities and metaphysical callings?
Practical Wisdom: Essays on embodied religious life in a digital age — family liturgies for the distracted, raising children (and disciplining ourselves) in postmodern media environments, building institutions that resist fragmentation while embracing technological flourishing.
Synthetic Reflections: Pieces that weave together philosophy, internet archaeology, political economy, and cultural analysis. Think "What Augustine Would Say About AI Governance" or "Productivity Hacks as Secular Liturgy."
Political Aesthetics: Pieces to experiment with form and function. Expect some satire from prophetic oracles of the past to take aim at modern injustices. Gotta honor the imagination-forward non-type-A’s that actually make life worth living.
Thematic Intersections
Every essay will explore at least two of these domains:
Political Theology: Christendom, Caesar, and the strange endurance of the sacred in the face of modern power
Science & Religion: Beyond warfare metaphors, toward synthesis and symbolic imagination, reclaiming enchantment
Culture & Symbolism: Reading theologically through high art, low memes, or the aesthetics of arson on robo-taxis
Embodied Christian Practice: Liturgies for distracted families, institutions that last, eschatology in the everyday
Venture as Vocation: Co-creating with the divine, unifying ends and means, building businesses that honor the imago dei of customers and bring glory to the LORD at significant sacrifice to your bottom line
The Vision Forward
This isn't content. It's catechesis. Not commentary. Witness.
Endwise aims to build a community for those who feel spiritually serious but culturally disoriented. For people who sense that something essential but unimaginable has been lost amidst our algorithms and institutions. For those trying to raise children, design software, or seek God without pretending it's easy.
Over time, I envision this growing into more than a newsletter: theological salons, writing cohorts, perhaps even a gathering place for the kind of integrative thinking our age desperately needs. But it begins here, with essays written from the edge of the lamp to the edge of the market, with curious reverence for the ancient and reverent curiosity for the new.
I don't promise resolution. I’m not trying to win the discourse. I’m trying to recover wisdom and live accordingly — for you and with you.
The world is loud. The age is late. But the Logos still speaks.
If you're still aching to parse the signal in the noise — welcome to Endwise.
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What are we really building? What are we bowing to? What do we want to last?
Let's think it through together.