Who Is Israel?
• 6 min readIt is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Romans 9:6 Check out this wonderfully viral clip of
I’m Johnny 👋
Faith
After over a decade of atheism, I found faith in Jesus Christ in 2024.
More to come.
Work
Currently: CTO of Tucker Carlson Network. First hire. Launched in 2023.
Also: CTO of Battalion Metals. Launched in 2025.
Previously: Managing Director of the Republic of Palau's Digital Residency Program, first hire at The Network State working with Balaji Srinivasan to publish the book and start the fund and conference, and a quant at Bridgewater Associates.
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Posts
Antimeme Antichrist
• 5 min readantimeme (noun): an idea, fact, or entity that erases or prevents knowledge of itself from being remembered, recognized, or transmitted after it is perceived. I. Sometimes a book is so
Ark of Jesus
• 1 min readOne of the most astounding things about the Bible is how deep the connections are. For example: Noah's ark rested on the same day as Jesus was resurrected--thousands
I Wear This Gold Chain With A Cross
• 2 min readThe phrase "became Christian" doesn't sound quite right, because in my limited understanding, what actually happens is a switch deep within you flips; you realize you&
Spacemaking
• 2 min readOne thing I loved about living in Singapore were the plants. Great, big, leafy trees; vines draped over the side of a building; palm fronds framing the gleaming skyscrapers. It
A Sunday Afternoon Project
• 4 min readSam Altman said there are two kinds of startups: 1. the ones that build for models as they are today, and 2. the ones that build for models as they
Risk Intelligence
• 2 min readA friend wrote this book I read about ten years ago. I understood that I didn't understand risk. I was a "word thinker"--someone who would
The Sculptor’s Framework
• 7 min readIs there depth and complexity our inner selves, or are we shallow? In The Mind is Flat, Nick Chater argues the latter. Perhaps we are akin to low-grade LLMs predicting
A List of Really Obvious Things
• 6 min readPerhaps the least obvious thing is that the most obvious things are not obvious. Common sense is uncommon. Simple things are hard. Since I discussed this with my friend, Jake,
Companies Start From Problems, Problems Start From Worldviews
• 1 min readThe biggest mistake when I tried to start a company was thinking it was about finding a problem: the real problem is not having a worldview. What does it mean
What is a mathematician's favorite fruit?
• 1 min readA parsimon.
NFT Nation
• 5 min readCommunities are built around third places Meet Ladonia: a micronation with an online community. Though only a fraction of the declared citizens are within the declared geographic perimeter at any
Why Are NFTs Valuable?
• 2 min readYou're Not Paying For Pixels The right-click-save-as guys often remark that because they and everyone else can see images without paying, NFTs are not valuable. However, the opposite
Good Businesses Improve Lives
• 1 min readEven founders fundraising slip into status harvesting instead of company building. A friend of mine runs a great company. Chip hasn't gone to college and can't
iPhone (Coinbase Supported)
• 2 min readA big reason software is free is users pay to display. We may write the code, and we may rent computers to serve the code, but the rendering, interaction, and