Projects
I believe thoughtful, creative, explorative work grows our capacity to imagine new worlds and build them for the sake of others.
The projects below are in various stages of life. Find the one that suits yours...
Pathways Focused guides to the sages and saints teaching us to live a life free of digital distraction right now...
"The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better..."
"They did not know what they were laughing about
and why they had stopped thinking…"
Pathway Three | Rustling Digital Leaves
"On the internet, this space of rustling digital leaves,
the dream bird cannot build a nest.
The information seekers drive him away..."
October '26
Posts Exploring the spaces between...
What I'm externalizing...
What I'm internalizing...
Practices Simple tools for living well with technology...
We all have to begin a process of clearing. The hours reclaimed from a screen are not hours subtracted from living. They are hours returned to it. The question is never how much time you have. It is what you bring yourself back to when the screen goes dark.
Check your digital temperature using a thoughtful, contemplative review of the state of technology in your life. Reflect on your experiences recently through three dimensions of your inner and outer worlds. Let awareness be the first step toward healthier rhythms.
A digital rule of life is a set of practices and patterns to guard your days and guide your life. Select from simple, actionable rhythms to build your own personalized rule around technology, attention, and presence.
A digital household covenant is a shared container for the life you want to live. Walk through different spaces like The Table, The Threshold, or The Hearth. Wherever technology quietly shapes your life together, renew your commitments to intentional living as a household. Print practice cards. Display your covenant. Maintain your commitments.
Four practices. One integrated life.
Find your clearing. Reflect on your lifestyle. Build a rule for your days. Make a covenant with your community. Each tool stands alone. Together they form a complete way of life to stand in the digital age.
Inspired in part by the work of Practicing the Way.
How The Clearing works
Enter the hours you spend on screens each day. The Clearing divides that time equally among the regions you select, then calculates what each share could become over a year.
The calculations
Reading Meadow Pages read at 200 wpm, matched to real books
Writing Desk 800-word essays at 300 words per page
Trail 3 miles walked per hour
Skill Grove Direct hours of practice
Garden Square feet of sustained garden, based on weekly tending
Hearthside Direct hours of presence with others
Silence Direct hours of quiet
Open Sky Moments of awe, roughly one every 20 minutes outdoors
Click any region to deselect it. Your hours redistribute among the remaining regions. There is no wrong arrangement.
These numbers are not assignments. They are possibilities, held lightly. Use this with grace for yourself. The point was never perfection. It was always just presence.
Monk ~ monos ; oneness or unity of purpose
Monk Mode
A life ordered toward its end; a path to get there.
Not a measure of perfection, but space to pursue it.
Paradigms Collaborative experiments that illuminate and unveil how we see parts of our world...
Origins
I am a tech enthusiast, a writer since the age of eleven, and a self-styled popularizer of great thinkers and organizers of human flourishing. I've spent years studying the edges between ethical technology and the writing life, accumulating data points, practices, resources, and dreams for the future.
The deeper you go into questions about attention and formation, the more you find they’re not just about screens. They’re about what we were made for. That thread led me from the edges of ethical technology into a community of saints asking questions about the fundamental nature of our relationship to a higher power.
We are called to live as witnesses . I cannot sit idly by as technology .
It's time to find and live a better story today.
