Jason Sacred Fire

15 years ago, my marriage was on the edge. We loved each other—but the connection was gone. We didn’t know why. It was lonely. Frustrating. Almost fatal. Until one night, we sat down and said: “This isn’t working. But we’re going to find out why.” That decision cracked the sky open. We walked through fire. Time. Money. Faith. Focus. We gave everything—and what we found was… 🔥 Polarity 🔥 Passion 🔥 Partnership 🔥 Purpose That journey became our mission. Now we guide men & couples through the same fire— to the other side, where truth lives. Shades of Intimacy. Modern Day Warrior. Audio Drops. This is sacred rebellion. Masculine embodiment. Radical intimacy. Presence. Power. Peace. If you’ve knocked, this may be the door. Follow along. Or DM if you’re ready to walk through. #ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredMasculine #PolarityPractice #ModernMan #JasonSacredFire #VoiceOfFire

This morning I found myself reflecting on AI. Not from a place of fear. Not from a place of defending it. Just from my own lived experience. This year alone I've traveled to Miami for Ultra with friends. I went to EDC with my family. I spent a weekend in Nashville for meditation. I went camping at Black Sheep. I flew to California to see Rush. I'm training for Ragnar. I went to Las Vegas for a board game convention and saw Illenium at the Sphere with my daughter. Adventure. Experience. Action. As my friend Aubree likes to tease me, I'm becoming a traveler. And when I look back on all of it, I realize AI enhanced many of those experiences. It helped me think. It helped me plan. It helped me organize. It helped me learn. It helped me create. But it didn't live my life for me. I still made the trips. I still had the conversations. I still sat in meditation. I still ran the miles. I still stood in the crowd singing Rush songs with thousands of people. I still laughed with friends around campfires. I still experienced awe. That's an important distinction for me. I don't want to outsource my soul. I still think for myself. I still value creativity. I still exercise discernment. And perhaps most importantly, I still enjoy challenges. AI can solve a lot of problems. But I don't want all my problems solved. Years ago, during a meditation, God said to me: "I would never solve all your problems for you. I would never do that to you." At the time I didn't fully understand it. Now I think I do. It wasn't a statement about limitation. It was a statement about love. Because if every challenge were removed, every obstacle cleared, every problem solved, I would lose the opportunity to solve them myself. And that's the gift. You get to do this. You get to struggle. You get to learn. You get to fail and try again. You get to build strength, wisdom, character, resilience, and courage through lived experience. Human beings are wired for challenge. We are wired for growth, striving, curiosity, goals, setbacks, and discovery. The satisfaction doesn't come from having every obstacle removed. It comes from engaging with life and finding out who we become along the way. A tool that helps me climb bigger mountains is wonderful. A tool that climbs the mountain for me removes the very thing that made the climb meaningful. So no, I don't see AI as a replacement for living. I see it as a tool that can help me live a bigger life. The key, at least for me, is remembering that the point was never efficiency. The point was participation. You get to do this. P.S. One of my clients, Luke, arrived last night with his wife for today's workshop. This morning, before we even started, he went out and ran the hill near my house. That struck me as a perfect example of what I'm talking about. There is a difference between learning, planning, thinking, and preparing... and actually participating. Nobody can run the hill for you. You get to do that part yourself.

Tuesday night I got to see Rush again. A thing I honestly never thought would happen. And it did. The world is beautiful, abundant, and I am deeply grateful. I went with my son Riley, my wife Jennie, and our friends Tom and Chrystal. I even ran into an old high school friend, Danny. Since the show, I've read dozens of people's stories and reactions. I find myself agreeing with so many of them. There is a shared love for Rush that is hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there. We didn't just listen to the music. We grew up with it. For many of us, especially during those formative teenage years, the songs weren't entertainment. They became part of how we saw ourselves. Part of our identity. Part of how we understood the world. So standing there with thousands of people, singing, cheering, roaring with the crowd... You have to believe me. It was something more than a concert. I've seen Rush many times over the years, and somehow this might have been my favorite, other than the first time I saw them back in 1986. It felt magical. And yes, I know I use that word a lot. But sometimes it's the right word. The blessings, bounties, and small miracles of life occasionally line up in a way that opens the heart wider than you expected. I cried during the Neil Peart tribute. Then they played Bravado. And if love remains... That was pretty much it for me. And because she's been such a topic of conversation, I have to say something about Anika. She was perfect. Absolutely perfect. After opening weekend, I heard plenty of opinions. Some people said she nailed it. Others said she wasn't right for the job. I told my friend Tom, "We'll find out for ourselves on Tuesday." And we did. She was phenomenal. No one replaces Neil. No one can. But Anika brought exactly what was needed: skill, power, respect, heart, and her own presence. I couldn't have been happier with what she brought to that stage, and I'm deeply grateful to her, Geddy, and Alex for making this possible. Some experiences exceed expectations. A few absolutely shatter them. Those are the moments that remind me what I keep talking about: Preserve awe. Stay open to surprise and delight. The universe occasionally gives you something far better than you dared hope for. Tuesday night was one of those gifts.

@techdevnotes Yes

SuperGrok is on discount

I'm proud to present this video created with Grok. Here are the main steps in the making of this video: 1. I wrote a draft script by hand. 2. I reworked the script with Grok to eliminate inconsistencies and add technical details (what I have them say about the Apollo missions and the stones is accurate). 3. Grok broke it down into scenes. 4. I switched to Grok Imagine's Agent mode: transforming each scene into a prompt. 5. I animated each scene in Agent mode using video, as well as cropping and image selection. 6. I edited it. Here's the result; it's hard to call it AI. I look forward to reading your comments. @imagine @elonmusk

Curiosity is free, infinitely renewable, and the single highest-ROI investment a human being can make. Nothing else even comes close.

AI doesn't eliminate thinking, it helps you with the work that prevents you from thinking. The people who use it well think MORE, not less. UNLESS you allow it to replace you.

Wealth used to follow geography, it then shifted to the best education. Now? It follows curiosity. The most curious person in any room is the most valuable person in any room.

Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.

Building fast

@Dwriteway I appreciate you saying this.

One thing X has taught me: People genuinely want to support you. They just need to see you show up everyday.

The challenge isn't collecting more dots! Someone said that in the comments and I 100% agree

I like this. I have found it to be true fire me.

Due Diligence The other day someone suggested I get my head out of the clouds, stop acting like Joe Rogan, and do my due diligence on AI. That's about all I got from her, but it's enough. It's enough to step back and look at AI as a whole—and my own personal interactions and collaborations with it—and ask: Is this good for the world? Is it good for me? I've suggested over and over that, just like any new tool or technology, AI can be used for both good and bad. So I'm taking a long look at my own usage with one simple question: Am I using this well? Is it beneficial for me, for my soul? Is it short-term pain that equals long-term gain, as opposed to short-term gain that equals long-term pain? I haven't concluded the answer yet. I think it's been positive, and I know I enjoy it. I've been excited, motivated, and creative with this technology. I love AI. In the face of a lot of fear and resistance, I'm openly going against the grain and saying: I love AI. That's honest. But it's also good, wise, and fun to ask: Is it good for me? Is it good for my family? Is it good for the planet? Right now I don't have those answers. This Sacred Rebel Scrapbook entry is simply a message to myself: do your due diligence, and be open to seeing the truth.

I’ve noticed the same.

SpaceX

100%

The human body became a software engineering problem the minute CRISPR arrived. Now, AI writes better code than humans, with every disease becoming a potential coding challenge.

@TomBilyeu @BernieSanders 100% convinced he's sinister. I used to give him the benefit of the doubt. No more.

I can never be sure if you're well meaning, but don't understand economics, or if you're actually sinister. I want to believe you know the difference between fictional paper wealth, and actual real wealth, because if you don't, you shouldn't be in office. But if you do, and you still say stuff like this, then you're sinister.

Taxing 50% of AI companies' stock to ensure that AI benefits humanity isn't radical, but let me tell you what is: Since Trump was elected, the 7 richest men in America, all Big Tech oligarchs, became $1.15 trillion richer while 60% live paycheck to paycheck. That's radical.