Accelerating American Shipbuilding with @valstadship | @SCMaritime Board Member | For God, Family, and Country | Tu ne cedes malis
Austin, TX
Joined July 2014
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Dialing in the robotic handling, fitting, tacking, and welding of flat bar stiffeners to the plate on cell 1.
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Well this is interesting!🤔
Holy, Holy, Holy! He is speaking to us!
“WAIT A MINUTE… Y’all, tell me why this has me SHOOK!!
Rachel means “sheep.”
Simon means “to hear” or “to listen.”
Isaias means “Yaweh is salvation.”
Put it all together… “Sheep, listen.Yaweh is your salvation.” 🙌🏼
I don’t know about y’all, but I serve a God who can speak through ANYTHING! Sometimes we just need to slow down, open our eyes, and pay attention to what He’s showing us. 🙏🏼
Now tell me… is God trying to get somebody’s attention or WHAT?!”
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Today I officially joined @ValstadShip as Head of Commercial to help build the sales, marketing, and strategic partnerships side of the company.
Valstad is building the systems that build the ships. Robotic structural assembly, AI-driven production planning, and end-to-end traceability so American yards can produce and repair faster without waiting on a brand-new shipyard.
The mission is straightforward: supercharge the country’s maritime industrial base.
If you’re a shipyard, a repair yard, a supplier, or someone working the policy side of American shipbuilding, let's connect.
valstad.com
After four and a half years, today is my last day at @GnosisFreight. More next week on what’s next.
Thank you @Austin_McCombs, @GMichaelRentzJR, @hudsonjoyner, and @Jake_Hoffman19 for bringing me in four and a half years ago, trusting me to chase new ideas, and for the chance to work with some of the sharpest people I’ve ever been around.
A few things that that I've learned about myself during my time with Gnosis that I've been thinking a lot about lately that I want to share with others:
1. Be curious and go down the rabbit hole even when it doesn’t look related.
2. Think creatively instead of defaulting to conventional wisdom.
3. Be high agency — don’t wait to be told what to do.
4. Most importantly, put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Ask for His wisdom, guidance, and grace daily. Give your life to Him and you’ll be amazed at the doors that open.
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I've been waiting for this for a long time...
@PhilipAMitchell on @TheLiveFreePod 🔥
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Accuracy testing.
Right now we’re able to compensate for weld distortion using only a single sensor.
Still slower than we’d like, so we’re already working on a multi-sensor approach that will speed things up significantly, although this is good enough that we can start ramping production while we continue to iterate.
Tons of little details required to get this right.
Not happening. Zero percent chance he does this.
Senator claims Trump may open US market to Chinese EVs in Xi deal electrek.co/2026/09/09/slotk… by @fredlambert
I believe @JoshuaSteinman has been warning about this for some time.
Islamic State supporters are sharing an online guide encouraging extremists to deliberately start wildfires to exhaust firefighters, police and investigators in the UK.
The supporter-run forum contains ISIS propaganda in Arabic and English and material discussing how attackers could avoid detection.
The guide, titled “Burn down your first forest and exhaust the workers of the tyrant,” presents arson as a way to force evacuations, drain emergency resources and cause major economic damage. Users also discussed attacking homes and a court.
The material emerged as Britain battles severe wildfire conditions that recently prompted an emergency alert to millions of people.
Pool baptism practice underway at our house.
They’re kids. They’re playing. And somehow they’re still pointing at what matters.
Excited to see @SCPorts partnering with @lloydsregister, @Maersk, and @felixstowe_port on the Pink Corridor, identifying and addressing the operational, security, and safeguarding requirements for a theoretical nuclear-powered containership trading between Charleston and Felixstowe.
Charleston already has a strong nuclear presence: naval nuclear training and related expertise that most ports simply don’t have. Pair that with a major container gateway, and we have a real shot to help lead where commercial maritime nuclear and SMRs for vessels go next.
gcaptain.com/pink-corridor-p…
$100 it ends up named something like the Trump Straight.
🚨Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz.
The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers).
Worth noting, ships navigating this corridor remain completely outside the Iranian regime’s line of sight due to the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the curvature of the Earth.
Follow: @MorseReport
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.@ShawnRyan762 asked me point-blank: "Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?"
I am humbled and honored that I was put in a position to answer this question for him. This story is one of the best illustrations of the Gospel that I've ever heard.
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Q: "Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?"
Pastor Josh's answer is worth your time... 🙏
🚨 The @ShawnRyan762 x @howertonjosh episode is out now: youtube.com/watch?v=zk0wExWX…
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🇺🇸This July 4th, Remember Who We Are.
A nation conceived in prayer. Built by believers who refused the word impossible. Defended by patriots who understood that some things are worth more than safety.
We don't apologize for our values. We don't negotiate with our principles. We don't ask permission to be free.
The more the world demands we bow, the more certain we must be that we stand.
Remember who we are and then refuse to be anything less 🇺🇸
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With some people (and pastors) objecting, I want to explain really quick why this week's LIVE FREE episode (and social media) is unashamedly about the United States.
I love my King of Kings more infinitely than any earthly ruler.
And there is an Eternal Kingdom that has infinitely more allegiance from me than any earthly country.
But...
In the Bible, God established 3 institutions for the good of the world:
– The Family
– The church
– The State (governments)
This means that a Christian man should seek to be...
- A family man
- A churchman
- A statesman
This week, we'll celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, and part of being a "statesman" is loving your country.
- A family never gets better unless the father LOVES his family.
- A church never gets better unless people LOVE their church
- A nation cannot get better unless people LOVE their nation
So, I do unapologetically love my country, thank God for the historically unique way Christianity played a role in the founding of our nation, and I'll have a BLAST this week unapologetically and enthusiastically celebrating it and working for its future good... not IN SPITE of the fact that I'm a Christian, but BECAUSE I'm a Christian, who is grateful to God for what He has done in the past and imploring Him to pour out his Spirit in our culture for the good of its future... and then I'm going to walk in this weekend and preach verse by verse through Exodus 3 and make Jesus real famous.
"But seek the welfare of the [nation] where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare."
– Jeremiah 29:7