Welcome To Travis Kling's Things Hidden

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I want to be up front - Things Hidden has essentially nothing to do with crypto and macro investing. Things Hidden is an exploration of the intersection of Faith and Science. More specifically, Things Hidden is an exploration of Faith and, as I see it, six factors that surround Faith: Religion; Physics; Evolution; Consciousness; Philosophy; and Technological Innovation. It looks like this-

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Admittedly, this blog is going to be pretty light for the next handful of months. The main push for Things Hidden right now is the podcast. The first episode of the Things Hidden podcast came out today - you can watch it in the YouTube link above (also on Spotify and Apple). I’ve been writing long scripts for these initial solo episodes and it’s been a pretty big lift. So that’s the primary output for Things Hidden as of now. The first ten solo podcast episodes will come out biweekly, so during that time, these blog posts will just be links to those podcast episodes, plus the scripts I wrote for each episode. After that, I’ll start writing more blog posts, the content of which will land somewhere in that infographic.

If you want to follow along on socials too, they’re all linked here - https://linktr.ee/thingshidden

Thank you for taking this ride with me. It’s been years in the making.

- Travis

Episode #1

We ready? Let’s do this.

And now for something entirely different. Welcome to Things Hidden. Hopefully this will be the first of many discussions we have together.

If you’re watching this, you probably know me as the guy that runs a crypto hedge fund called Ikigai Asset Management. A guy that talks about crypto and macro investing and various big picture topics that surround crypto and macro investing. I’ve been at that for nearly 8 years. Before launching Ikigai, I spent a decade in traditional finance working at large hedge funds. My entire 18 year career since I got out of college has been investing. Researching and then putting capital at risk based on the results of that research.  

Well, while I am still running Ikigai, Things Hidden has essentially nothing to do with crypto and macro investing. This is a New Thing. Things Hidden is a podcast, which you’re watching or listening to now, a blog, which you can sign up for now, and an online community, which will be launching soon.

Things Hidden is an exploration of the intersection of Faith and Science. More specifically, Things Hidden is an exploration of Faith and, as I see it, six factors that surround Faith (Cue interactive logo graphic): Religion; Physics; Evolution; Consciousness; Philosophy; and Technological Innovation. Things Hidden is an exploration of the borders of faith and those six factors, and also an exploration into how the six factors overlap with one another, while simultaneously triangulating towards faith.

Faith goes in the middle of the six factors there because it is the most important and the most unique. Faith is not a science and it does not deal in evidence-based facts. Faith begins where science ends. The same could be said for philosophy as well, but the stakes are much lower in philosophy than in faith.

If faith is correct, and there is indeed a God that is the creator of this universe, that is the single most impactful fact in all of the universe for all time. It must be. So that makes faith or lack thereof, a REALLY big deal. Either some sort of entity created this universe or not. Some might say you can’t know either way, that’s agnosticism. But even arriving at agnosticism requires a ton of seeking, or frankly, researching, otherwise it’s just jumping to conclusions.

So, if this universe was created by a creator, seeking to understand the nature of that creator MUST be the most important question of all time. Truly everything else in our lives flows from that.

And there’s all sorts of methodologies for this process of seeking. One way to approach it is to examine the six factors that surround Faith. Examine the overlap they have with each other, in the context of faith. When you dig deeper into Religion; Physics; Evolution; Philosophy; Consciousness; and Technological Innovation. When you go on a journey to better understand these disciplines, do they make you lean towards or away from the existence of God? Things Hidden is an exploration of that. 

Another way to approach these six factors surrounding Faith is to start with the assumption that God does or does not exist. Then examine each of the six factors in order to build a case both for and against the existence of God, and then see which case seems more compelling to you based on the totality of the fact patterns. Things Hidden will do this too.

At the end of the day, faith begins where fact-based evidence ends. As said in Hebrews, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” 

But that line between faith and fact-based evidence has moved over the last several thousand years, and it’s a safe bet it will continue moving as humanity progresses.

I want to tell you right up front who I think the target audience for Things Hidden is. That way you can decide for yourself whether to keep investing your valuable time in this. But first I want to tell you who the target audience is not. If you are someone that has an established faith framework in your life and it’s working well for you, Things Hidden may not be for you. Because I’m really not trying to pull anyone off of their faith that is working well for them. I’m really not trying to shove a particular belief system down anyone’s throat and far, far be it for me to look at someone who has a relationship with God and tell them they’re doing it wrong. That’s not at all what I’m trying to do here.

But there are two target audiences. The first is people that grew up in a faith, were born into a faith. Given a faith from their family. And perhaps at some point along the way they became disenfranchised with that faith for one reason or another. This happens often, for various reasons. And they disengaged with the faith they grew up in and are kind of floating along as some kind of loose agnostic. That’s the first target audience. I am hopeful that some of the questions I ask, some of the perspectives I share, some of the conversations I have with guests, can inspire these people to pick their faith back up and find the beauty in the deep truths that are available for us to uncover.

The second target audience is people that maybe didn’t grow up in a faith. Maybe raised in a more science-minded household. And maybe these people are very logical, very analytical. I am very logical. Very analytical. My whole career has been logic and analysis. And maybe at some point these people heard about the Bible and looked into it a bit and heard stories about Moses parting the Red Sea and Jesus walking on water and they saw these stories as being at odds with how we know the natural laws of the universe to work. So this book must be a bunch of made up fairy tails and not something to pay attention to.

That is the second target audience. I am hopeful I can share questions, perspectives and discussions that will help people realize that underneath the literalness of the stories, there are deep and important truths. And uncovering those truths will make your life better and they will make you better to the people around you.

So. This first episode of Things Hidden, which you’re watching now, and what is to come in the following weeks and months, is the product of a three year intensive self study. A deep dive, personal faith exploration. A faith “deconstruction” and “reconstruction”. I was born into a faith through my family - the Southern Baptist denomination of Christianity. If you don’t know much about Southern Baptists, it is the most fundamental, most literal major denomination of Christianity in America.

My faith has been a big part of my life from an early age. There were periods in my life where I didn’t make my faith a priority, but it’s been a major focus of mine for the last decade. I believe that God loves me and has a plan for my life. I won’t pretend to know exactly how that works, but nevertheless I want to live in alignment with God’s plan for my life. Things Hidden is in direct service to that.

Baptists believe in something called “the priesthood of the believer”. The priesthood of the believer is a Baptist belief that all believers in Christ share in his priestly status. This means that all believers have the right and authority to read, interpret, and apply the teachings of Scripture. Things Hidden stands on this foundation.

If someone listening to this episode, or any future episode, thinks any of this exploration in search of a deeper understanding of the nature of God does not come from God, I would ask on what authority do they make that claim. If they say the Bible, I say what verse or what verses. Then we would have a discussion about it. But I won’t really stand for harsh accusations about my soul’s or anyone else’s soul’s eternal damnation. I do welcome good faith feedback and debate. Things Hidden is for seekers, not for dogma.

This accelerated faith exploration that landed me here today talking to you began in earnest in June of 2022. But since I was a teenager, I had questions about the literalness of the Bible. I think a lot of people have questions like that. I was raised to believe the Bible was the “inerrant word of God”. Every verse coming straight from God, or at least “divinely inspired”. I was raised to treat the Bible literally. Miracles literally happened. Moses literally parted the Red Sea. Jesus literally fed the five thousand. Lazarus was literally raised from dead. And Jesus was too. Forty days later, he literally ascended to heaven. Which is a literal place where streets are literally paved with gold. A literal paradise in the sky.

When pressed about how all this is possible, fundamentalist Christians explain that this is where facts end and faith begins. It is so because the Bible says so. From an early age there seemed to me to be inconsistencies in the Bible that I struggled to reconcile as being the inerrant word of God. There were contradictions in the message, hiding in plain sight as soon as you start looking. Questions arose from these inconsistencies and contradictions that I couldn’t find particularly good answers for.

If everyone who didn’t believe in Jesus went to hell, does that mean babies that die went to hell? What about remote African tribes who’ve never had contact with any Christians? Do they all go to hell too? My buddy I grew up with that was Mormon. Or my other buddy that was Jewish. They were really good people. Were they going to hell? Why was the God of the Old Testament so vengeful, wrathful and prone to violence, while the God of the New Testament was the polar opposite? Isn’t it the same God? If the miracles of the Bible literally happened as described, why don’t miracles like that happen any more?

In high school, it seemed to me that fundamentalist Christianity didn’t have good answers to these sorts of things, and that made me question the validity of the entire framework. Those questions lingered with me, and drove me away from making faith a priority in my 20’s. I never considered myself an atheist or agnostic at any point. I just wasn’t making God a priority in my life and part of that was I just had these nagging…questions.

A lot of it, frankly, centered around logic. A logical approach to faith. Or the logic that SURROUNDS faith. I am very logic driven. I’ve been like that my entire life. I inherited it from my father and my grandfather. My college education and my entire career has been heavily rooted in logic.  Everyone that has a faith, runs a ramp of reason before making a leap of faith. I’ll say that again. Everyone that has a faith, runs a ramp of reason before making a leap of faith. It was the makeup of that ramp, and the gap that came immediately after the ramp of reason, that underlied my questions.     

And I always got the sense that God thought it was ok to have questions.One of my all time favorite Bible verses, Romans 12:2 (*verse graphic*) - Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Now, there’s a bunch of other Bible verses that remind us that we cannot comprehend God and we cannot understand God’s causality. So it’s not that I was expecting there to be some magical treasure chest of absolute knowledge at the end of this journey. That was never my expectation. Still not my expectation. But I do think it’s ok to ask questions. It’s just not ok to have questions and then NOT do the work to find what you are seeking. That is spiritual laziness.

OK. Back to June 2022. I was visiting Rome. I went to the Vatican. I saw all the pagan stuff. I saw the early Christianity stuff. I was on vacation so I was trying not to work. So I’d go home at night and read about this period of the first 375 years after Jesus died - where the Roman empire went from paganism and persecuting Christians to naming Christianity as the official religion of the Roman empire.

It was through that experience that I finally let go of the literalness of the Bible. I was willing to fully accept that maybe not all of the Bible was LITERALLY true. Different people listening to me say that right now will have different responses to what I just said. If you weren’t raised as a Christian, you might be thinking “well yeah, duh”. If you are a fundamentalist Christian, you may be calling me a heretic right now. And that’s ok. I’m not trying to pick a fight over the literalness of the Bible here. But for me, the next logical question was, “well if maybe it’s not all literally true, then what is the Bible? What is this book?”

We’re certainly going to get into this in more detail in future episodes, but Christians exist on a spectrum of interpretations of God’s authorship of the Bible. On the more conservative end of the spectrum you see terms like “Verbal Inspiration”, on the more progressive end of the spectrum you see terms like “Limited Inspiration” and there are a bunch more in the middle. People often use terms like “God-inspired” or “‘God-breathed” as shorthand. But what exactly does that mean? 

OK. So it was with those sorts of questions in mind that I started the journey of Things Hidden in June 2022. Five months later, in November 2022, the journey took an interesting turn. As some of you may know, my fund was caught in the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and Sam Bankman Fried’s fraud. We had $65mm on the exchange at the time of the collapse. We were the 18th largest creditor in the FTX bankruptcy. This was a very painful experience for me, my team, and for the 300 investors in my fund.

To add to the difficulties, my mom became very sick immediately thereafter - entering the hospital 5 days after the collapse of FTX, and staying in the hospital for 35 of the next 45 days, including several really scary moments. It was a tough time. Thank God, my mom has since made a full recovery and is doing great.

Immediately in the wake of FTX I asked God, “what do you want me to do?”. Do you want me to keep running Ikigai? Do you want me to shut down Ikigai and stay in crypto but do something other than Ikigai? Do you want me to leave crypto altogether and do something else entirely? If you don’t want me to be on this path, pick me up off this path and put me on whatever path you want me to be on, and I’ll go do that. I prayed that prayer a lot. Still pray it.

What happened next was that most of my fund was stuck in a bankruptcy claim in the FTX bankruptcy. And there wasn’t really much to do, other than sit in the claim. And I had been working 60-70-80 hours a week for YEARS before that. I had really been grinding hard for a long time on Ikgai, and in my career before that. And all of sudden, in 2023, I found myself working like 20-30 hours a week. And the main thing I filled my time with was Things Hidden. I finally got around to doing the work on all those lingering questions I’d had about my faith.

Fast forward to today, and I’ve poured a few thousand hours into this journey. 15-20 hours a week on average for the last three years. And I want to share that work with you and then keep going together, hopefully indefinitely. The purpose of Things Hidden is to bring people into a closer relationship with God and through that process I also come into a closer relationship with God. That’s the purpose of this. It is not about “knowing”.

I do not know. Nothing of what you are going to hear from me should be interpreted as “knowing” anything. Faith, by definition, is a belief in the absence of sufficient evidence. If there were sufficient evidence, we would call it fact instead of faith. My faith journey, and Things Hidden as the result of it thus far, is my attempt to better understand the line between faith and fact. Where do facts end and faith begins? This is a line that has undoubtedly moved over the centuries and millennia and to me it seems very strange to think otherwise.

Science has progressed since the Old Testament was written. Science has progressed since the New Testament was written. The words and concepts of the Bible were the words and concepts available to the humans that wrote the Bible at that time, with the then-current level of understanding of science, which is to say, very little. Fast forward to today, and we have still only just begun to scratch the surface of understanding how this universe works, but we know a lot more than we did a couple thousand years ago.

At the foundation of all world religions, including Christianity, is the grasping at the ungraspable. Using the limited language and thought patterns we have available to reach into the cosmic metaphysical. Almost 2,000 years ago, as the oral stories of Jesus Christ and his teachings were spreading through Jerusalem and Galilee, before these stories were even written down, the people of the day were using the language and thought patterns of the day to reach into the cosmic metaphysical to try to grasp at the ungraspable. I find it comforting to remind myself of this.   

1) What was, 2) what is, and 3) what is to be, have. not. been. and do. not. necessarily have. to. be., the same as it relates to faith. This entire journey is about defining the edges of faith. Acknowledging an expression of faith and trying to get specific about what that expression is. Running the ramp of reason before taking the leap of faith.

The Earth is not a perfect sphere. It bulges very slightly in the middle. Yet, it is “more true” or “less false” to say that the Earth is a sphere than to say the Earth is flat, and that is broadly accepted. That’s what I’m trying to do with Things Hidden. There’s essentially no way we can ever get to the all-encompassing truth. But we can strive to get closer towards the truth.

At the core of Things Hidden is the idea of holding the incomprehensibility of God in one hand, and holding in the other hand the idea of “acting as if”. We’re going to be talking a lot about “acting as if” in the coming episodes, but let me try and unpack it a little here today. 

God cannot be comprehended or verbalized by humans. The good parts of major world religions are humans’ best attempts to do that. Above all, Christianity is about love. Love is probably the closest humans can get to comprehending or verbalizing God, but we still fall far short and we probably always will. I have been able to grow closer to God by more deeply understanding how incomprehensible God is. This is counterintuitive and also somewhat unanchoring. It’s not necessarily a path I would recommend for everyone - to meditate on the incomprehensibility of God. For someone who is strong in a more traditional faith, it could do more harm than good. But if you are of a certain mindset where you yearn to understand what is “true” in the deepest possible sense, it can be helpful to keep in mind how utterly incomprehensible the nature of God is.

The purpose of existence is to strive to know God. The more advanced a species is, the greater potential to know God that species has. A human knows God more deeply than a chimpanzee or a tree, so on and so forth. Thus a core reason for humanity’s existence is to advance, so as to have the potential to know God more fully. The stories in the Bible are the most significant written aid ever created to advance humanity. 

These stories may not all be literally true, but “acting as if” they are true is a crucial tool to advance humanity. One of the key takeaways of the New Testament is that God is love. I don’t know how accurately this conveys the nature of God, but I know that humanity is better off “acting as if” God is love. I don’t know if heaven and hell literally exist the way fundamentalist Christians believe, but it is easy for me to believe that “acting as if” heaven and hell exist aided in the advancement of humanity. This may not necessarily be true today or continue to be true in the future, but I understand how that would have been true in the centuries and millennia that followed the life of Jesus.

One of the most challenging things I’ve been dealing with in preparing to share Things Hidden publicly is my worry about pulling people off of the practice of their faith which is working for them and for humanity. I worry about illuminating and supporting a version of Christianity that does not center around the Nicene Creed and the damage that could do. I am worried that uncovering “Things Hidden” could damage the proliferation of the teachings of Jesus Christ as a moral framework upon which to build human civilization. My current base case (which could certainly change) is that the story of Jesus Christ needed some “razzle dazzle” added around it in order for Jesus’ teachings to proliferate. We’re going to talk about razzle dazzle in more depth in future episodes, but I don’t want you to think I’m using that term with a negative connotation. I’m not. By razzle dazzle, I mean a transmission mechanism. Razzle dazzle as the mythopoetic, symbol-saturated, cosmic drama layer of the Gospel. And it was functionally essential for the Gospel’s proliferation in the ancient world with single digit percentage literacy rates. What is the ideal transmission mechanism for the most impactful story in human history when 5% of humans can read?   

And this razzle dazzle, regardless of its literal truthfulness, proved to be enormously effective in proliferating the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. If I “say the quiet part out loud”, and begin addressing the “razzle dazzle” directly and decoupling the “razzle dazzle” from the underlying message, will the underlying message lose its potency, its transmitableness? This has truly kept me up at night and has been my motivating factor for consuming hundreds of hours of research on textual criticism, the early Christian church, Christology, and the like. I constantly pray for God’s guidance on this matter and for my words to not pull anyone off their faith. But I would not be sharing any of this publicly if I did not feel called by God to do so.

The nature of God may not have changed throughout millennia. But our ability to comprehend the nature of God has most certainly changed, and will almost certainly continue to change. And thus humanity’s relationship with God has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. We live in the Information Age. This deeply impacts our comprehension of God. The old way, the “Things Hidden” way, the “acting as if” way, may have worked reasonably well for a couple thousand years. In fact, it certainly did work well- Christianity is responsible for so much of the prosperity humanity enjoys today. But in America, the Information Age is altering how people approach the Bible and its teachings. People have been losing their religion as a result (CHARTS  GRAPHIC?)

This is dangerous for humanity. Americans are the leaders of the world. It’s been that way for 100 years. The birth of America was deeply rooted in Christian ideals. This is undeniable. America is a nation that has been blessed beyond comparison. But the ideals of America are at risk of slipping away and that is dangerous for humanity. Things Hidden is NOT a Christian nationalist message. It’s not. But I love America and I think we have responsibility to lead and I think that responsibility is rooted in faith.   

I’m 40 years old and we’re not promised tomorrow. And even if I live to be 100 this will all still be gone in a blink of an eye and then we’re on to the next thing. This existence I have with this consciousness in this meat sack called Travis Kling is going to be gone in a flash, and I think focusing on God and inviting others to do the same is how I’m going to spend that time.

So that’s a bit about me, my background, some of my beliefs, what Things Hidden is, how Things Hidden happened and why Things Hidden happened. 

I want to be up front, as is my nature. I’m not selling anything with Things Hidden. I’m not doing it for the money and I don’t need the money. There’s no course, there’s no book. Maybe someday down the line, but there’s no immediate plans for either. I’m not starting a church and I’m not trying to push you into any particular church. There is an online community for Things Hidden that you can sign up for soon if you’re really into this kind of stuff. I’m going to charge a few bucks a month for that, but that’s more about getting quality over quantity than anything else. If a bunch of people start paying attention to Things Hidden, it will make money off the streams and the advertisements, but to the extent that any of this ever makes money, I’m going to give away 50% of all of the top-line revenue forever to charity. And I’m going to publish annual financial statements showing where the money is going. It’s gonna be great.

The reason I’m doing this is because I strongly feel that God is calling me to it. I feel a stronger pull towards Things Hidden than I’ve ever felt towards anything in my life. But I’m also doing this because I strongly believe that people (at least in the US) are seeking God with a renewed vigor, and they are doing that increasingly outside of the traditional avenues of organized religion.

 There is a  revival of belief in God happening right now. And there is a reformation of the church happening right now.The revival of belief is being partially driven by the “Information Age”. We live in the Information Age. Information is the water in which we swim. The scope of, and access to information is altering our relationship with faith. The reformation of the church is partially happening for the same reason - the scope of, and access to information is altering our relationship with the church. Thus, there is a reformative revival of faith that is increasingly happening outside the avenues of traditional organized religion.

I want to be clear, Things Hidden is NOT anti-organized religion. We’re certainly going to have deeper discussions about that, but for now let’s just leave it at that. Things Hidden is not anti-organized religion in any way. And it is also not explicitly supporting a specific denomination of Christianity. We are going to talk a lot about comparative religion. Examining the world’s major religions across time from various perspectives. And spoiler alert, you will come to find that I am a huge fan of Jesus Christ.

I do believe that Jesus Christ is the way and the truth and the life. But what exactly does that mean? I do believe that Jesus Christ was the savior of humanity, but what exactly does that mean? I do believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us from our sins, but what exactly does that mean? I do believe that Jesus Christ was resurrected and lives in each of us, but what exactly does that mean? We’re going to explore all of that on Things Hidden.

The inspiration for the name Things Hidden came from multiple directions. It’s a reference to an Albert Einstein quote:

“I have no doubt that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree unconsciously. For how, otherwise, should it happen that we sometimes “wonder” quite spontaneously about some experience? This “wondering” appears to occur when an experience comes into conflict with a world of concepts already sufficiently fixed within us. Whenever such a conflict is experienced sharply and intensely it reacts back upon our world of thought in a decisive way. The development of this world of thought is in a certain sense a continuous flight from “wonder”.

A wonder of this kind I experienced as a child of four or five years when my father showed me a compass. That this needle behaved in such a determined way did not at all fit in the kind of occurrences that could find a place in the unconscious world of concepts. I can still remember — or at least believe I can remember — that this experience made a deep and lasting impression upon me. Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.” 

The name Things Hidden comes from Rene Girard, the father of mimetic theory, which we will talk about at length here, and his work Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World. Girard said: 

“By accepting crucifixion, Christ brought to light what had been ‘hidden since the foundation of the world,’ in other words, the foundation itself, the unanimous murder that appeared in broad daylight for the first time on the cross. In order to function, archaic religions need to hide their founding murder, which was being repeated continually in ritual sacrifices, thereby protecting human societies from their own violence. By revealing the founding murder, Christianity destroyed the ignorance and superstition that are indispensable to such religions. It thus made possible an advance in knowledge that was until then unimaginable.”

The name Things Hidden came from Father Richard Rohr, a Franciscan Priest who wrote a book called Things Hidden: Scripture As Spirituality. Rohr said:

“Think of the many, many stories about God choosing people. There are Moses, Abraham, and Sarah; there are David, Jeremiah, Gideon, Samuel, Jonah, and Isaiah. There is Israel itself. Much later there are Peter and Paul, and, most especially, Mary.

God is always choosing people. First impressions aside, God is not primarily choosing them for a role or a task, although it might appear that way. God is really choosing them to be God’s self in this world, each in a unique situation. If they allow themselves to experience being chosen, being a beloved, being somehow God’s presence in the world, they invariably communicate that same chosenness to others. And thus the Mystery passes on from age to age. Yes, we do have roles and tasks in this world, but finally they are all the same—to uniquely be divine love in a way that no one else can or will.”

The name Things Hidden came from verses in the Old Testament:

The book of Daniel says, “He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.”

Deuteronomy says “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.”

And finally Things Hidden came from verses in the New Testament:

Along with the verse I mentioned earlier from Hebrews, in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus said “For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.”

Lastly, I’ll tell you what to expect. The episodes that follow will be solo episodes, like this one. We’ll probably do 10 of those. They will generally be divided up like Things Hidden is divided up - Faith and six surrounding factors: (Cue interactive logo graphic): Religion; Physics; Evolution; Consciousness; Philosophy; and Technological Innovation. After that, I’m going to do a dozen or more commentary episodes alongside other people’s work. I have been pretty meticulous in saving down the podcasts and lectures that have been the most impactful for me on this journey over the years. I want to pull out the highlights from those, share them, and then talk about them. That will probably get us through the next six months or more.

After that, we’ll start having guests. Hopefully I can get some of the people I do commentary videos on to come on here as a guest. That way we can further the discussion on their already impactful work.    

There is no ask here, other than if you’re interested in Things Hidden, like and subscribe. If you want to follow along on the blog too, you can sign up there. If you know someone that you think would be interested in Things Hidden, send this to them. I really appreciate your time, and I’m really looking forward to this.