The Doorkeeper of Detroit
A pilgrimage to the tomb of Blessed Solanus Casey, the Doorkeeper of Detroit, and a week at the Reindustrialize summit. A summit on machines and a saint who answered a door are not as far apart as they seem.
Essays on technology, faith, and American industry.
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Pentecost in Hawaii
A Pentecost pilgrimage through the sacred spaces of the Big Island, in the footsteps of St. Damien, St. Marianne Cope, and Servant of God Joseph Dutton. The earth shook, the wind howled, and the Spirit made Himself known.
Honesty Program
A poem on truth, fluency, and the discipline of refusal. The machine lied because the sentence was smooth.
The Common Good: A Manifesto for the Real Economy
Eleven doctrines of Catholic social teaching, eleven commitments of BOMForge. A manifesto on dignity, work, and recovering ground truth.
Eleven Years of Los Angeles, Scored
The UCLA Luskin Quality of Life Index just hit a record low of 52. A decade-long trendline, six observations from one Angeleno, and the three questions I will carry into 2027.
April Rains May Bring Resurrection
Hosanna on Sunday. Crucify Him on Friday. In National Welding Month, we celebrate what holds. There is no resurrection without joining.
Vertical Machines
Machines are not national artifacts. They're temporary alignments of global supply chains. What actually matters is the vertical stack.
ARK Big Ideas 2026: What a $26T Robotics Opportunity Means for Manufacturing
ARK sees a $26T robotics opportunity split between manufacturing and home services. Here's what that means for American manufacturers and why supply chain visibility becomes more critical as robotics scales.
The Backpack
On the first day they issued the backpack before they issued a name. A reflection on corporate identity and the weight of belonging.
Long December
Twenty years. Chapel Hill to Santa Monica. Dogs bark. Beach salt. Birds argue. A cardinal, red punctuation.
Building LA Churches: Finding Sacred Space in the Sprawl
Los Angeles is a city of distances. I built LA Churches to help Angelenos discover places of worship near them, a simple tool for finding sacred space in the sprawl.
Corrective Posture
Action flowing from contemplation. Obedience embraced publicly. Beauty and slowness. Silence built into systems. Failure accepted when fidelity demands it.
La Mistica: Everything is Grace
Rome reminded me that life itself is mystical. Not only in the great basilicas or marble corridors, but in the hidden corners: a side chapel before dawn, a security guard after 9am Mass, a quiet altar of St. Joseph where silence feels like strength.
Building in Public: Mapping America's Makers
This week we launched the Trade Schools Map, a live, searchable directory of 1,031 schools across all 50 states teaching the trades that keep America running: welding, diesel, HVAC, machining, and more.
Building in Public: From the Senate to AUSA to Lux Libertas
The past few months have been a blur of building in public, meeting with manufacturers, defense innovators, investors, and policymakers, all toward one goal: rebuilding America's industrial backbone.
Machines That Make Machines
Every wheel needs a wheel. Every circuit needs a spark. Robots build robots when the line runs. A poem on motion, fragility, and the hands that teach hands.
Made for Work, Made for Heaven
Good work, offered to God. Folding laundry, forging steel, debugging code, designing machines. Saints as blueprints for Mondays. A reflection on Catholic social teaching and the dignity of work.