Sourdough Modernity

Why Does Growing Up Mean Giving Up? Who decided there’s an expiration date on chasing your dreams? In this episode of Sourdough Modernity , I celebrate my friend Jake Collins and the release of his new album, Core Values , with TrashxStrike. We spent a good portion of our lives pursuing music, and seeing him continue to create and accomplish what he set out to do got me thinking about why society...

Down with a cold this week, so I'm playing something a friend made instead. He built a platform called Briefcais, and this is a product walkthrough. The idea behind Briefcais is backwards from normal enterprise software: instead of building another app you have to live in, it tells you to stop logging in. Every morning you get one email, a daily brief that distills your Slack, inbox, calendar, and...

Mary Shelley wrote, “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Not because I think people are monsters. But because I remember what it felt like when life was turning me into someone I didn't want to be.

Justin asked his AI to conduct an honest assessment of his personality after months of conversations. Unfortunately, the AI took the assignment seriously. The results include chronic argumentativeness, selective resistance to authority, premature problem-solving, and a remarkable ability to recognize his own flaws without necessarily correcting them. No feelings were considered during this assessm...

A 13-year-old should not need to understand asylum law to keep himself from being deported. A little kid should not be expected to defend himself in an immigration courtroom. Yet children are being put into a legal system they cannot possibly understand — surrounded by adults who can point to laws, procedures and policies to explain why it’s allowed. But “it’s legal” has never meant “it’s right.”...

To Catch a Predator was a phenomenon. Millions of us watched Chris Hansen confront adults who believed they were showing up to meet children—and, if we’re being truthful, part of the appeal was watching them get caught and publicly humiliated. But was that justice, entertainment, or both? With Predators reconsidering the legacy of To Catch a Predator and Primetime bringing the story to the screen,...

What if we have career development backwards? I spent years assuming the people above me knew something I didn’t. They had the titles, the degrees, and the confidence—so I figured they must belong in the room more than I did. I’m not so sure anymore. After a great conversation about the future workforce at the Printing Industries of New England Leadership Conference in Maine, I started thinking ab...

I went into this episode thinking Ozempic was another shortcut—and that people taking it were avoiding the real work of losing weight. Then I actually read some shit that kinda proves me wrong. We talk Ozempic, diet culture, My 600-lb Life , the search for the miracle solution. I’m still uneasy about these drugs even after learning. But the people taking them deserve a lot less judgment from me. M...

Can We Teach AI to Give a Shit? AI researchers are publicly warning that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. So naturally, Atticus and I decided we should probably fix it. In this episode, I dig into the morality of AI, why obedience and intelligence aren’t the same thing as morality, and a question I can’t stop thinking about: What if compassi...

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones This is genuinely one of the best books I’ve ever read. It reminded me of what it felt like when I first discovered Stephen King and realized what a book could do. Everyone needs to read this book. And when you’re done, go watch Ken Burns’ The American Buffalo . It adds even more weight to the history behind the story and makes parts of this book h...

You Don’t Need Another Diet. You Need a System. What if the reason diets keep failing us isn’t that we lack willpower—but that we keep trying to temporarily change our behavior instead of changing our normal? In this episode of Sourdough Modernity , I talk about the experiment I’ve been running on myself: using MyFitnessPal, Weight Gurus, Apple Health, and ChatGPT to build my own digital health te...

This isn’t just about Muay Thai. It’s about leadership and this episode. I share three personal stories that taught me one of the most important lessons. I’ve learned people may forget what you said, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel from a former CEO simple active encouragement to a signed pair of boxing gloves after my heart attack will explore why the smallest gestures often leave...

Who are you? If I don’t let you tell me your job title. Most people will pause because we’ve been trained to answer. I’m an accountant. I’m a teacher. I’m in sales. Imagine instead answering I’m curious I’m a builder. I’m a learner. I hope people solve problems. Those answers tell you far more about a person than their LinkedIn headline ever could. It’s not that careers don’t matter. They absolute...

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HERBAL CORNER IS BACK! In this episode, we explore what’s happening hormonally during menopause and how herbs can support hot flashes, night sweats, bone health, vaginal dryness, heart health, mood, brain fog, and sleep. A holistic, herbal approach to moving from mother to crone with support and grace. 📷 Follow along:@savagesoulsbotaniks Shop & Learn more www.savagesoulsbotaniks.com

An urgent, unplanned dispatch from Sourdough Modernity. On July 4th, roughly 400 masked members of Patriot Front marched through Washington, D.C.—and it forced a reaction that couldn’t wait for a scheduled episode. This is a short-form open letter, born out of confusion, anger, and reflection on what it means to watch movements like this resurface in plain sight. It wrestles with the tension betwe...

**Episode Description** What does it mean to be an American citizen? This week, we read the first sentence of the 14th Amendment out loud and ask a question that should concern everyone: *What happens when citizenship becomes conditional?* Inspired by a recent video from Dustin "Burnest Hemingway," this conversation explores birthright citizenship, the danger of allowing governments to decide who...

When Your Heroes Disappoint You.

**Who Watches the Weight Watchers?** I've spent most of my life overweight. The man boobs. The gut. The awkward shirt changes in gym class. The constant feeling of trying to hide parts of myself. Recently, I looked back at my weight data and realized something surprising: in 2015 I was bouncing between 195 and 197 pounds, and today I'm 188. After more than a decade of trying, I haven't moved the n...

what if the people who say they care most about freedom, property rights, and limited government have somehow ignored one of the clearest examples of state-sponsored injustice in American life? That’s what hit me after reading The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, then reading The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.

So since I’ve been thinking about meaning. And how life is a constant fight. Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher in the mid-1900s. He was part of French resistance during World War II spent a lot of time thinking about how people find meaning in a world that can feel chaotic, unfair, or even indifferent. He didn’t believe life comes with built-in meaning. his idea is actually freeing:...

Mere Christianity From the perspective of an anti-theist

Cheaters never prosper.

Why do people become religious and conservative when they grow up?

Let’s make the car a place of silent reflection.