High Agency Christianity
• 3 min readI. The image of a Christian is generally passive. Christians "turn the other cheek." Interestingly, Walter Wink notes that Jesus specifies the right cheek in the Book 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.
Companies I Believe In
I've had the honor of investing in my brilliant friends and colleagues. Check out the insanely cool companies below.
- American Talent Labs: Reimagining vocational training with AI-resilient trades.
- Atoms: Physical automation to transform industry and move the world.
- Bitizenship: Hold Bitcoin, get passport.
- Polybee: Increase agricultural profits with autonomous pollination and yield forecasting.
- Portal VR: Motion controls and face tracking for VRChat and Steam games with hardware you already own.
- Substrate: AI-driven financing platform for equipment sales.
- Torque: Onchain incentives platform.
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Posts
What OpenAI's Newest Codex Found In The World's Oldest Codex: Hunting in the Bible
• 19 min readWhen I was a kid, my friend's dad found a new largest prime number. He had added one small step to a continuous record humanity has kept alive
Who Is Israel?
• 3 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
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-
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
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.