Who I Am
Husband, father, small business owner, MBA from Columbia, bachelor’s from Purdue, former CTO in investment management. I have run businesses that operate inside the gap between how institutions are supposed to work and how they actually do. I have traveled to more than 34 countries and found both profound differences and surprising universals.
I started The Prometheus Dispatch because I could not find what I was looking for: writing that occupies the messy middle, where uncertainty lives, and decisions actually have to be made. Writing that does not assume my position on one issue determines my position on everything else.
The name comes from Robert Anton Wilson’s Prometheus Rising, which draws on the myth of stealing fire from the gods. Wilson used Prometheus as a symbol for the human capacity to break free from conditioned thinking, to question inherited assumptions and tribal programming. This publication tries to do that work.
Why Subscribe
Because you are tired of being sorted into buckets you never chose. Because you have noticed that the epistemic failures you once attributed to one side of the political spectrum exist on both. Because you want writing that draws from the canon of human knowledge — Hayek, Jung, Fromm, Postman, and others — without requiring you to adopt a package deal of positions just to belong somewhere.
I have changed my mind on things I once held firmly, which is the whole point. Five years ago I would have said “trust the science” without qualification. I still trust science when it is actually science. But I watched that phrase become a cudgel, and it taught me something about how tribal epistemology works regardless of which tribe is wielding it.
If you need certainty and clean categories, this is not for you. If you are willing to sit in discomfort and think, welcome.
What You Get
Regular essays on civics, democratic sustainability, and the assumptions we rarely examine. Analysis that synthesizes political philosophy, psychology, and cultural criticism into something you can actually use — not to win arguments, but to see more clearly and build a stronger self.
Each of us has far more power than we believe we do. The Dispatch is built on that premise.
Start Here
The Founding Fragility — What does the Republic ask of you?
Strong People, Free Societies — Freedom isn’t just a group game, it is a self game.
