achievments outwrigh our failures, in 2025 America is still our best bet, and

At risk of pissing off the partisans, I also love and hate both political parties. I’ve taken many valuable lessons from my relationships with Republicans in one of the poorest places in America, Southeast Ohio, where I live now and helped found the aforementioned school. Likewise, I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Democrats in San Francisco, where I founded three companies and spent a decade advising tech executives and investors on brand development and questions of workplace culture.

America is pretty great. Flawed, but less flawed than all the other systems. We’re here to fight for it.

Is this some Ultra-MAGA Christian nationalist thing?

No. We rather like the Constitution. You make some good points though. Christian moral values do indeed lay beneath most of America’s founding documents and our entire legal system. If you pine for a return to monarchy, we encourage you to take a deep breath and move to New Athens instead.

Is this some Communist screw-the-tech-oligarchs thing?

No. We love money—and, come on, so do you. The point is that nobody should get rich by hurting people. Count us on board for lawsuits, asset seizures, and jail for crooks. If you dream of lynching billionaires, we encourage you to take a deep breath and move to New Athens instead.

Is this some AI Doomer tin-foil-hat thing?

No. Though the AI industry increasingly resembles the Olympics Games for moral illiteracy. We’re sympathetic enough to be building an entire city without AI. If you’d prefer to assassinate the engineers and nuke the data centers, we encourage you to take a deep breath and move to New Athens instead.

Is this some back-to-basics neo-Amish thing?

No. We’re not that disciplined. And we watch TV and use computers. Though the Amish sure are looking smarter by the day...

On partisan politics and American identity

are looking for an off ramp from self-destructive internet use and re-grounding in the real world.

restore the spirit of america

restore the spirit of the american family

restore amerigan enguinity, artistic expression, and centrality of the family through the prohabitiion of hostile technology

best to take the high road, but in our current partisan enviornment, there is no high road. there is only a choice of gutters to crawl through.

we’re building the high road

Fundamentally for reform and against revolution. Everyone welcome, including people who have flirted with the far-right and far-left who are looking for an off ramp from self-destructive internet use and re-grounding in the real world. High energy people are essential, so long as they’re building instead of destroying. United in the belief that American is worth fighting for—and we’re in this together. (Re)Committed to the American experiment and Constitution / highly-motivated patriots of all stripes

re-channel highly-motivated patriots of all stripes we don’t want or expect a bunch of middle-of-the-road fence sitters. want people with passion—and agree to put that passion into the shared goals of the city. through the process of building i expect people to soften under the physical constraints and the compromises of daily life that were normal before the internet and only avoidable when people moved their social lives online.

fundamentally an effort to defuse violent urges. While idealistic, our approach is also deeply practical: by giving people something to do with their beliefs beyond repeating them. we’re a vehicle for action, with hands, in the real world, where compromise is not a lofty ideal to snicker at but literally required because you ran out of wood to build the shed, or you have to make dinner because your kids are hungry and they don’t care that you don’t eat on 24 hour tiktok benders.

i actually think we need more politics, not less. this is fundamentally a recommitment to the american experiment and self-government.

more things need to be debated, not less. the great misjudgment of the left declaring “progress” when, in reality, people were just afraid to speak against the left. The right is busy repeating the mistake.

The problem is not intensity. the problem is there’s no good place to put the intensity. (the internet riles people up (good!) but doesn’t give them anything to do with that energy (bad). we’re the outlet)

no interest in silencing people. no interest in keeping people from reading what they want to read.

democracy belongs here. of course it belongs here—it’s still the best system we have.

openly political. don’t suppress it. open to all. pluralism still best.

america first—and others welcome if share priorities and values.

anti-revolutionary. reform is the way. criticism america OK so long as goal is fixing it, not destroying it. not commie cyborgs, not blow-hard kings.