Take some deep breaths...
Life moves fast; you don't have to.

Our life is frittered away by detail...
simplify, simplify.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Ben Fridge

Exploring the intersection of technology, theology, and creativity

Philosophy

EST 2022

To internalize and externalize ways of being.

The projects herein align with the mission above and attempt to answer the question, "How can we live ?" Our platforms, devices, and systems are filled with . Their true face, however, .
has been invaded.

Optimism is simply another species of . Of course, the response should not then be . Our vital response to restart humanity in this time is hope. Like patches of forest that need reclamation, our innovations need renovations before their development comes to an end.

As for my end, I'll borrow from the ecologist Aldo Leopold. There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. ...

Projects

Thoughtful, creative, explorative work grows our capacity to imagine new worlds and build them for the sake of others.

Below are some artifacts I am working to release into the world.

2024 — 2026

Pathways Focused guides to the sages and saints teaching us to live a life free of digital distraction right now...

2026 — 2028

Paradigms Ongoing experiments in practice at the intersection of technology and human flourishing...

Art
Creation
Leisure
People
Platforms
Politics
Ideas
Culture
Work

Posts Exploring the spaces between...

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About Ben

I am tech enthusiast, a writer since the age of eleven, and a self-styled popularizer of great thinkers and organizers of human flourishing. I've lived in the digital neighborhoods of ethical technology and human creativity for years, accumulating datapoints, practices, resources, and dreams for the future.

More recently, the scholarship I’ve digested, the classes and sermons I’ve begun to teach, and the musings I spend the most time on have found their way from the eremos of solely tech and creative spaces into a community of saints asking questions about the fundamental nature of our relationship to a higher power.

We are called to live as witnesses . I cannot sit idly by as technology .

It's time to find and live a better story today.