Trying to keep running in a hot July is hard. Started at 5:30 this morning and did 4 miles. It was in the 70s with high humidity and every piece of my clothing was completely saturated with sweat by the end of the run. Drinking extra electrolytes now to get rid of my headache. Phew.

Interesting to read in conversation with the Pope’s encyclical: Ilia Delio’s response. Following Teillhard, humanity is not a final evolutionary state to be protected but just the first time the evolving universe attained consciousness. AI and technology are just further advances.

2026 Reads: Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence by Pope Leo XIV 📚

A little bit of video editing to wrap up my evening. I know just enough about Davinci Resolve to be dangerous.

Aw, man, Sam Neill.

I hope he at least got to see Montana.

“The quality of a civilization is measured not by the power of its means, but by the care it is able to offer, by its ability to recognize the other as a face not merely as a function.”

Finally reading Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical. There are some bangers in here.

The Sacred is one of my favorite podcasts, and this episode with Muslim journalist Mehreen Khan is a particular standout. Religion, economics, politics, social media and public life… lots of goodness in the discussion.

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2026 Reads: What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed 📚

What a wonderful, imaginative story. Loved it.

Impressive win for Norway over Brazil.

Rebecca Lowe, in the studio, describing it as “the biggest day in their nation’s history”? Maybe a little bit over the top.

#WorldCup

2026 Reads: End of Days Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings 📚

Phew, quite a read.