A PERSONAL PUBLICATION BY BEN

SOME GUYON THE NET.

Husband. Father of three. Founder. Engineer. Operator. Teacher. Future seminarian. Building software, companies, restaurants, and an increasingly difficult-to-summarize biography.

The name comes from a Ben Folds lyric. The opinions, regrettably, are original.

A woodcut-style workbench with a laptop, Bible, restaurant tickets, books, notes, and a bagel
FIG. 01 — VOCATIONAL HAZARDS, ARRANGED ON A TABLE

I build things for people doing real work.

I’m Ben. I’m married to a woman who is wiser, kinder, and better than me in nearly every way that matters, and together we’re raising three children.

I co-founded and lead Table Needs and started Bagel Boy, a fledgling franchise with two locations. I also built Walk with God and Task Bracket. Plum CMS and Kodiak Booksellers are further evidence that I am not especially good at leaving ideas alone.

Before that, I spent five years building Sworkit and helped about 100 people become software engineers.

I’m also a confessional Lutheran preparing for seminary. This is where those vocations share a table without pretending they’re a personal brand strategy.

The unnecessarily complete version

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Receipts

Not a résumé. There is, however, evidence.

“Vocation is not a ladder toward significance. It is where your neighbor happens to need you.”

Confessionally Lutheran. Unfashionably sincere.

I write about Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions, education, and the ordinary work God gives us to do. I’m preparing for seminary, so expect field notes—not declarations of personal infallibility.

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