🔗 Episodes: The Vibes Aren't Shifting

Some good cultural analysis for you.

The Verge: Gemini is winning

Gemini is winningCould Siri be the last piece of the puzzle?The VergeDavid Pierce Being an incumbent and a company with a $4T market cap has its advantages.

Resisting Fatalism

New year, same struggle.

CT: Yancey admits to affair, retires.

Yancey was a significant influence on me in my teens and 20s as I wrestled with evangelicalism. This is how his career ends.

The Exvangelical podcast (& more!) will return in 2026.

(A brief look back, and a quick glance ahead.)

Welcome to the new site

Hi there. 👋🏻 If you're reading this, it's likely because you're on the mailing list for my newsletter, The Post-Evangelical Post. I'm migrating off of Substack to my own Ghost website. In November 2025, after almost a decade of working full-time and publishing

I may have to start wearing a watch again.

The ugly Pebble 2 Duo is the smartwatch for meThis is a welcome new-old idea about smartwatchesThe VergeDavid Pierce Pebble is so back.

Reading Notes: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

I just recently started the latest Cory Doctorow book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. I'm early on in the book - he's still providing case studies of enshittified platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, and Apple - but I'

WIRED: The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It's a Shit Show.

The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit ShowThe Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money. But some immigrants say it’s been nearly impossible.WIREDVittoria Elliott What a surprise.

One more for the collection, I guess.

Bending Spoons is buying up Eventbrite, too.The Italian software company just announced billion-dollar deals to purchase AOL and Vimeo, and now it has reached an agreement to acquire Eventbrite for $500 million. Bending Spoons has added several other digital businesses to its portfolio in recent years, including Evernote, Meetup,

No Kings in Chicago. No Kings in the United States.

Plus an event next week in Portland, OR.

When Dreams Change

I’ve been inconsistent here online over the last six months. This entry is my attempt to explain why. There’s two lines from The Extreme Self1 that have haunted me lately: The opposite of vulnerability is no longer strength. The opposite of invisibility is no longer being seen. It’