Information is like a pile of lumber and building materials stacked on the ground.

Knowledge is turning all of that into a house.

Understanding is going and living in that house.

And wisdom is procreating a family in that house.

What might be an unintended consequence of sustainable abundance?

Will the lack of stress to provide for oneself, the lack of suffering as you keep body and soul together, create a world of weakness where everything and everyone collapses in on itself?

Judges 21:25 and Judges 17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

It must be kind of important if God mentions it twice.

When we follow this course, of doing what is right in our own eyes, we are like a boat with no sails, rudder, or keel, easily blown by any wind on the waters.

How can we maximize harvesters?
How can we maximize the training of harvesters?
And how can we maximize the disciplining of those harvested into harvesters?
You have really good programs running at your base.
You work hard in them.
How can we increase your harvesting without increasing your work, your hours, or your effort?
People are the body. Our programs are our food. We need to eat programs into oblivion, such that we cook a new program. From that program that gets consumed will rise the next generation, fed and ready to cook a new program.

Large Language Models that can create answers to many facetted questions do exist.

They operate from a probability and informational matrix to provide answers to questions.

What I mean by this….

God is not on our side.
But we can be on God’s side.

Who’s team are you on?
Your own team or God’s?

Often, we start on our team, we learn that that is not where we are meant to be, we switch to God’s team, and then, unfortunately, we convert God’s team into our team and wonder where God has gone.

How do we move from being on our team to God’s team?
How do we keep ourselves on God’s team?
What are the telltale signs that I might be trying to convert God’s team into my team?
And if I find myself having converted God’s team to my team and God seems vacant, how can I get back onto God’s team?

To whom much has been given.

Luke 12:42

A first read of these words of Jesus gives a rather harsh look into His thinking.

Or does it?

For one thing, this was a time of slaves and flogging. There was no HR department to complain to, no employment tribunal, and no police to call on to enforce laws of conduct. Even the courts were less than sympathetic if you were ways down the food chain.

A master was a position of huge power. And a steward was often a slave.

Yes much is required of us, but that which is required is going to come out of the much we have already been given.

The will of God is impossible to miss.
God is not so distant that you can not see Him.
God does not speak so quietly that you can not hear Him.
God is not so busy that He forgets you.
You are His delight.

Have you had any bad ideas recently?

Bad Ideas, Part 1.

We have a natural aversion to self-examination of events in our lives that go wrong, backfire, or cause us to come to grief.

It is because our egos get in the way, because of the shame or frustration we feel when things go wrong, and also because of the simple lie and idea that exists in our world that says, “I shouldn’t fail.”