Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945. Trinity was July 16. The reason for the bomb died in the spring and a hundred and thirty thousand people worked straight through the summer. One man quit. We are about to run the same experiment, faster.
Russia had everything—resources, education, strategic power. Yet its GDP per capita is one-sixth of America's. Four centuries of autocracy taught Russians nothing but control, corruption, and hardship. When you've never known trust-based institutions, you can't imagine building them. Seventy years of choices compound. Some nations built prosperity. Russia chose nothing.
Wealth isn’t a miracle; it’s choreography. Success comes from joy in selling, trust built over years, teams over heroes, and thinking ten sizes bigger than feels safe. Fortune is engineered like a barn, plank by plank, until the world calls it impossible—then watches as you make it real.
Something happens in the inside in the dark places, when the light is dim. I'm learning the dark places can be a prerequisite to stepping into the fullness of our destiny. God doesn't send the difficulties, but he can use anything that comes into our lives. In the dark places is where we really grow.... Continue Reading →
Notes Beyond the Map 