Being Reborn As A Divinely Reliable Man

Overpromising is spiritual sickness that destroys trust and dishonors God.

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I've been meditating heavily on what I should be doing. The answer: do a lot less.

Less tweeting. Less connecting. Fewer ideas. No new projects.

God has shown me something painful—we're all massively overextended. Leaders at Alpha Schools, especially billionaire Joe Liemandt, who spins up new projects every week while existing projects flounder. Dr. Lael Alexander, a wonderful human with massive potential who grossly overestimates his capacity and regularly drops the ball on his promises. Even Trump, who campaigned vigorously on a promise to release the Epstein files, has shifted to instead orchestrating a generationally grotesque coverup.

But I can only be so mad at others. I have long been a living embodiment of overextension and overpromising.

I repent for it. Genuinely.

I want my hit rate for new promises to be 100 percent.

This means radically simplifying everything. Fewer texts. Fewer calls. Fewer introductions. A very small handful of people I talk to.

I'm working on modeling divine reliability. Treating my word as God's word—as divinely important to satisfy. It is a great sin to promise but not deliver.

Jesus said, "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one." Scripture also warns: "Better not to vow than to vow and not pay."

If you want to promise something that depends on other people, you must only associate with people who also stick to their divine word and do not overextend.

This stems from insecurity. From pride. From needing validation versus the internal satisfaction of completion.

I refuse to be another member of the overpromising culture that pervades America. I'm putting an end to that.

I'm sick of people who promise me things, claim they are moving heaven and earth, then fall through. Not from ill intent, but because they haven't trained themselves—even at 50, 60, 70, 80 years old—to follow through on their word.

But I know that being mad doesn't change anything. Change starts with myself. I can be the living embodiment of the better culture I want to see.

I can stick to my word by being discerning about who I partner with. People who scope project timelines and stick to them. People who communicate radically when they can't fulfill but go above and beyond to help me stick to my commitments.

This means whittling down relationships. Being hyper-focused on delivering value for deep servants of God. People called to create disciples. People who want to mutually disciple me.

I sense a call from God to help people become more reliable. To not feel they need to overpromise to meet some earthly standard of being superhuman.

We are humans. Divinely gifted. Divine by nature. But we fall when we don't fulfill our commitments.

The path forward is sacred simplicity. Fewer words. Deeper commitments. Divine reliability.

This is how we honor God with our lives.