Mitch Fortner

Husband, Father, Aggie, and Civil Engineer. Managing Principal of KSA Engineers, a Pape-Dawson Company

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@megbasham If only he had a truck with a bed in it. :-)

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

America!

[Willy Rice @WillyRice]

I want to thank so many of you who have reached out personally to congratulate us and assure us of your prayers. We are humbled and accept this opportunity for service knowing it is a stewardship for which we will give account. I want to congratulate my brother, Josh Powell, and his wonderful family for his exemplary conduct and efforts during this season.

My esteem for him has only grown and I know he will be a voice in Southern Baptist life for years to come. We need 1000 pastors like him.

I want to assure all Southern Baptists, those who voted for me and those who didn’t, that
our desire is to serve our Lord and you and my prayer is indeed that God will bring us into a season of reconciliation and renewal. It is my hope to listen and to serve and I ask for your prayers, your patience, and your continued cooperation as we continue in the good work God has given us to do.

[David Mitzenmacher @davemitz]

Yearly reminder: the SBC Annual Meeting is a business meeting.

As a rule of thumb, you should be wary of anyone who tries to guilt-trip messengers for wanting to discuss the business of our cooperation during the one time a year we gather to discuss such matters.

[pagemasta @AdamPage85]

Willy Rice is in! Congrats!

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@drandrewhebert @hunterbaker Important to remember that not everyone who disagrees with you and uses social media to advance their position is a conflict entrepreneur. No more so than how you use Baptist Review to advance yours.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@ChristianHeiens @DataRepublican

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

[Jean-Michel Lemieux @jmwind]

Joined a new AI-native company this week and it’s kind of wild how different it feels already.

The laptop arrived, I logged in, and an agent basically took over from there. It set up my dev env, pulled repos, fixed dependency issues, got permissions approved, pointed me at the backlog, linked the architecture docs, and surfaced the Slack debates I actually needed to read before touching production.

When I needed context on something, I asked the agent and it found the exact thread from months ago explaining why a decision was made, who owned it, the related Linear issues, and the PRs connected to it.

I’ve only been here 3 days but it honestly feels like I’ve worked here for a year because the usual friction and scavenger hunt for context just isn’t there anymore.

We should probably stop calling this “onboarding” and rename it to “mounting” because this feels a lot more like mounting a distributed filesystem called “institutional memory” than slowly getting drip-fed context over 6 months.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@jchasedavis I read it, and your post is spot on.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@MQSullivan @kenmartin73 @GinaHinojosaTX

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@JoshDaws Very cool. Great application for AI development.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@JoshDaws Josh I use Evernote as my second brain. Where does Claude store your attachments and notes?

[Coach Vint @coachvint]

‼️Every coach and leader should listen to this.

📢The success Indiana has achieved has not been an accident.

💪This is a 45 second synopsis of how you become elite.

[Steve Wiltfong @SWiltfong_]

Texas A&M is the talk at the Under Armour All-America Game. The Aggies have several commits participating and lead for a few others in Orlando competing. The intel here: https://t.co/7tmd579lN9

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

In 1983, Steve Jobs predicted the next 50 years of technology.

His predictions:
• iPhone
• Internet
• Softwares
• App stores
• Artificial Intelligence

10 futuristic predictions from this talk that came true:

1. Every major revolution starts ugly

[Billy Tucker @TheUCReport]

Texas A&M will be the most well represented program in the 2026 Under Armour All-America game with 6️⃣ future Aggies competing #UANext

Gig ‘Em 👍

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@JayHill53127 @AdamPage85 I’m very sorry that happened to you. But that’s not attributable to a conservative political perspective. That’s horrible parenting and it can happen to children with parents that are anywhere on the political spectrum.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@BenSasse So sad to read this but so thankful for this hope that we share.

[Mitch Fortner @mitchfortner]

@jchasedavis That was painful to watch.