Big week in AI, a solo founder just built a $1.8 billion company from his living room, Anthropic accidentally leaked its own April Fools prank, and the decade-long personal grudge between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei finally got the longform treatment it deserves.

In today's recap:

Let's dive in 👇

5 or 6 years ago I was in London for a meal.

We'd planned the meal for weeks. Somewhere really good. I was genuinely enjoying it. Good food, good people.

And somewhere between the starter and the main, I was already thinking about the taco place nearby.

The one we'd passed on the way in, around the corner. Filed away for "another time."

I was in a great restaurant. Already planning the next thing.

I do this constantly. (anyone else?)

This week I've felt it in a different way.

The to-do list that never shrinks. Tick one off, three appear. The inbox that refills before you've finished emptying it. And somewhere underneath it all, the stuff I actually want to do, the dreaming, exploring, creating just for the love of it, keeps getting filed under "when there's space."

The space doesn't come. Not on its own.

I feel trapped when I'm like that. Genuinely.

And I think a lot of you leading churches, navigating ministry, exploring what AI means for your community, you probably know this feeling too. You're not short of vision. You're short of margin.

I read something this week that stopped me in my tracks.

"What if the present moment isn't the obstacle to your real life. What if it IS your real life."

Hit me hard.

Because I think a lot of us have quietly made peace with the idea that real life starts later. After the season settles. After the project lands. After the list clears.

But the list doesn't clear.

And meanwhile. Life.

I'm learning, slowly, that bandwidth for dreaming isn't a reward for finishing. It has to be made. Proactively. Before the week swallows it.

And.. that even if it doesn’t.. right here right now i’m in the midst of what will one day be looked back on as the ‘glory days’.

What helps you create that space? What have you put in place so the present moment doesn't just become something to get through?

Hit reply. I'd love to know.

🙌 Stay Curious, Stay Conscious, Stay Wild
Josh

LATEST NEWS

One guy. A laptop. $20,000. And a stack of AI tools most of us use every day. That's the origin story of Medvi — a telehealth startup that Matthew Gallagher launched out of his LA home in 2024, selling GLP-1 weight-loss drugs online by stitching together outsourced doctors, prescriptions, and logistics through platforms like CareValidate and OpenLoop. ChatGPT and Claude wrote the code. Midjourney and Runway built the ads. Two months later, the thing was live.

The Details:

Conscious Take:

Sam Altman called this in 2024, a solo billion-dollar company was coming. What's fascinating is the first real example isn't some revolutionary AI product; it's a guy selling weight-loss drugs from his living room. (And apparently with some non ethical tactics).

On March 31st, someone noticed that the @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package had shipped a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map by mistake — accidentally exposing 512,000 lines of code and 1,906 TypeScript files to anyone who wanted to look. Anthropic confirmed it was "human error, not a security breach" and said no model weights or customer data were exposed.

The Details:

Conscious Take:

Two major leaks in one week from the lab that built its brand around safety is a lot. In practice the damage was more embarrassing than dangerous — CLI tooling, not model weights.

But the real find here is BUDDY, which is the most humanising thing Anthropic has accidentally revealed about itself. A secretly-built terminal Tamagotchi with a SNARK stat.

The Wall Street Journal traced the roots of one of tech's most consequential personal rivalries all the way back to an SF group house in 2016. And it's messy. Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela left OpenAI in 2020 to found Anthropic — officially over safety concerns, but the WSJ's reporting surfaces older wounds: power struggles, battles over credit, and a board meeting where Altman reportedly accused Dario of plotting against him, then denied it when confronted.

The Details:

Conscious Take:

What strikes me about this story is how much of the AI race is being shaped by one very human thing: ego and unresolved conflict.

These aren't just different business strategies, they're different visions of what AI is for and who gets to decide. The fact that the fate of transformative technology is partly being driven by old grudges from a San Francisco group house is either very funny or very concerning.

If this email has been helpful, would you forward it to one person this week who might be interested?

Could be a friend in ministry, a creative who's curious about AI, someone trying to figure out how to build with Kingdom purpose.

I'd love to see this grow and reach more people. And honestly, personal recommendations mean way more than any algorithm.

Thanks for reading. Really.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23

Build with the tools. But build for the right reasons.

Stay conscious,

Josh

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