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 sages and saints...
"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...
Five practices. One integrated life.
Find your clearing. Keep a sabbath. 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 in the digital age.
We can all begin here: The Clearing and The Sabbath. Envision what is possible if you embark on a time reclamation project and create a weekly rhythm of disengaging from technology. These tools give by taking away. From there...
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.
Inspired in part by the work of Practicing the Way.
The Sabbath
"The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments."
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
What is one weekly boundary you can
honestly keep for the next four weeks?
What most threatens your rest?
Before choosing when and what, name what makes stopping hard.
Choose your rhythm
Not a calendar event — a weekly turning.
Or set your own hours
24 hours of rest
What will you set down?
Start with a promise small enough to keep. Tap again to set the strength of your boundary.
What will you pick up?
A sabbath is not mainly subtraction. It is the reordering of love.
Does this feel honest?
A sabbath you can keep is worth more than one you admire.
My Digital Sabbath
I will set down
I will pick up
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
The Workshop Direct hours of making
Garden Square feet of sustained garden, based on weekly tending
Hearthside Direct hours of presence with others
Silence Direct hours of quiet
The Porch ~2 handwritten letters per hour (300 words at 15–20 wpm)
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 spaces that illuminate and unveil new perspectives...
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.
