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.
It is also how I teach myself. Publishing is how I share what I learn.
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.
A Note on the Process
AI is involved in how this publication gets made: from research, to construction, to aiding the writing and smoothing my rough edges. Some essays have more, some less. Some had more AI influence at the beginning, others it was more toward the end. Some readers will automatically call that slop. That is exactly what I want to stand against.
Slop is what happens when AI is used generically, without connection to actual ideas, material, or synthesis. In The Prometheus Dispatch’s case, all of that is directed by me. I see myself as Editor-in-Chief and Explorer-in-Chief of this publication, less Staff Writer. The Canon I draw from, the questions I sit with, the positions I take and the ones I refuse: that throughline is the work.
If a piece does not sound like a person thought it through, the process failed. If it does, the tools served the writer, which is what tools are for.
It is my wish that you find value here.
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.
