A family business where the generations do not speak outside of work is an economic corpse waiting to be buried.
You share an equity structure, but you cannot share a communion cup without bitterness.
The son resents the father’s control. The father resents the son’s ingratitude.
You sit in the weekly production meeting like strangers with shared liabilities.
Christ commanded reconciliation before you bring your gift to the altar.
Shut the office door. Confess your pride to each other. Wash each other’s feet before Monday morning.
The spreadsheet says moving your fabrication to China adds 400 basis points to EBITDA.
The broker calls it "optimizing the supply chain" while you're actually gutting your community and your own people.
You gutted thirty machinists in Ohio so you could pick up an extra multiple to attract more private equity buyers.
A Christian business is an outpost of the Kingdom of God, not an extraction vehicle for disloyal capital.
Keep the business in your town. Do not sell out your own people.
Did some math, and this week is pretty wild, on what local ai has saved me One week of running my law firm's AI locally (GLM-5.3 Flash trellismx my own GPUs):
14.4 billion tokens in, 120 million out.
At Claude Fable 5.1 API rates that is about $15,000 with prompt caching, or $150,000 without.
I just pay for 🔌. lol
The bootstrap myth is destroying Christian families.
You kicked your son out at eighteen with a suitcase and a college loan because “you made it on your own.”
No you didn’t. You inherited a civilized Christian social order built by men who sacrificed for you.
Now your son works eighty hours a week for a faceless tech giant while your own business sits with no successor and is likely to be closed and any assets liquidated.
Repent of your pride. Bring your own people into the business.
In the last year we have empowered 300+ manufacturers including Boeing, SpaceX, Lockheed, Anduril, and many glorious machine shops of America.
We have created 52 US manufacturing jobs as well.
We just posted for 80 new hires in SF, LA, and Detroit. Multiple people for some roles
https://t.co/es2pRHRMJG
Come build factories in America with us. And continue to inspire future generations to build again in this country.
Sunday thought: The SI Buildout is going to look a lot more like the O&G industry much more so than traditional data center world from which it was spawned.
SB tactical carried us through the NFA. If and when they decide to make a stock, we should all buy one or ten of them, even if we don't need them. Buy just to support them for supporting us for all these years.