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Providence in the Probabilistic: Faith and Non-Deterministic Systems
The Church Fathers understood something about uncertainty that modern enterprises keep getting wrong. They knew outcomes aren't binary (determined or random) but bounded variations within possibility spaces. Now, as organizations struggle to trust AI systems that don't give the same answer twice, that ancient framework offers surprising clarity. The shift from Boolean to Bayesian isn't just technical. It's theological.
The Mimetic Machine: What Girard Understood About Social Media That Tech Bros Missed
Silicon Valley turned René Girard into a strategy guru. Tech bros quote him to win. Critics use him to condemn the attention economy. Both camps strip out what Girard himself considered essential: the theology that led him back to Catholicism. What if the French theorist's most radical insight wasn't a mechanism to exploit, but the only exit from a game nobody can win?