Love Conquers Fear

2026 New Year's Letter

2025 was a truly incredible year of growth.  As I wrote at the end of 2024 in last year’s letter, I had closed out that amazing year in Kerala, India in a very spiritual place and set my 2025 intentionality to be focused on the inner journey.  I certainly made that intention a reality, reading 55 books on consciousness, AI, quantum physics, and spirituality.  I also decided to write two books in 2025.  The first is The Lattice, my positive science-fiction novella covering the years 2030-2085 to process what I had learned about our reality.  I finished writing it on September 7th, just 1012 days since the launch of ChatGPT, and self-published it on Amazon shortly after.  My second was more ambitious and is titled Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All.  It’s a manifesto for humanity to make it to Abundance in this exponential of exponential curves that we all find ourselves in. I ’m working with a publisher, the Do More Good movement, for Love Conquers Fear, which is finished, in editing, and will be released in the first half of this year.  JD Messinger is the Executive Director of Do More Good and also the author of 11 Days in May, one of my favorite spiritual books (I loved it so much I listened to it on Audible twice in 2025.)  It feels good to work with a publisher that really gets me. I’m also working with my long-time editor, David Judson, who partnered with me on my first book, The Entrepreneur’s Essentials. He’s an amazing friend and a true intellectual thought partner.

I also decided to launch a podcast, Love Conquers Fear, to explore with friends, including JD Messinger, how humanity will make it to Abundance.  I launched it on September 24, the second day of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year).  As of today, 29 episodes of Love Conquers Fear have been released.  To mark the beginning of 2026, I decided to read The Lattice as an audio and video book on the podcast as a gift to all of my subscribers.  I’m fully booked to record new episodes through the end of February, and I’ve already recorded 36 episodes as of today.  The podcast line-up coming throughout 2026 is incredible.  I’ve been learning a lot and it has enhanced the Love Conquers Fear book as well.  It is going to take the best of humanity for us to make it to Abundance together.

AI, “Anyapax”, and a Sublime Salon in San Francisco of Inspiring Friends Old and New

The question, excitedly posed in October, now lingers beyond this year’s TED AI Conference in San Francisco: Are we bold enough?

Absolutely. But that is too simple an answer. The larger answer we seek must come from the follow-on question. This question asks:

Are we even close to imagining the coming transition – and are we prepared for that?

I’m optimistic, but let’s not cheerfully muse away the challenges implied in this broader question – the subject of my new and ongoing podcast (22 episodes so far) and upcoming book: Love Conquers Fear - Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All.

Answers will emerge. We’ll respond to the call. My deep confidence that accidents do not exist resonated here in San Francisco. My faith that humanity will make it to this new and beautiful Age – my current peg is 95% – was buoyed by two days at this surround-sound parley on the topic of artificial intelligence.

God's Creative Power (a short story)

I decided to write a follow up to my short story, God’s Final Exam, to continue the journey with my protagonist, Dr. Alexander Bliss. This continues my visioning exercise that precedes the launch of my podcast, Love Conquers Fear, which will launch in mid-September, and my book, Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All, which will launch later (I’m still determining the optimal timing for it.)

I write this from beautiful Monterey, California near the edge of what I’ve been calling the Grand Central Station of Sea Lion Terminal. Every morning I’ve been visiting them — they are quite hilarious and beautiful creatures. Life abounds on Earth in some many various forms (octopi are especially alien and divine), just like it does throughout the universe in God’s Creative Power. I just finished reading Stephen Mitchell’s master translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, thanks to a new friend. You’ll see the Tao’s prominence as a result, and it is a very stirring, timeless, and spiritual read — I highly recommend you pick it up.

Here is the short story, I hope you enjoy:

God's Final Exam (a short story)

As I approach the launch of my podcast, Love Conquers Fear, I had a fun brainstorm yesterday. I called in the styles of Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary (a book I’m currently enjoying, thanks to Josh Baer), as well as Jorge Luis Borges for character development to create this (thanks to Jason Stoddard for the reminder of Borges’ genius in this arena).

Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All is the most important book I’ve ever written and is a true soul-calling for me and a love letter to humanity. The next ten years will define whether we are well on our path to the Age of Abundance for All or whether we are going to extinct ourselves. I’m 95% certain that we’ll make it, as we have before with smallpox and nuclear weapons. This book, and the accompanying podcast (simply named Love Conquers Fear), is my best attempt to make sure we do. I’m not alone, of course — many are bringing the Light, including Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati, Eric Schmidt, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and so many others, from spiritual teachers to investors to entrepreneurs to philosophers.

Ok, now onto the short story, God’s Final Exam, which is a visioning exercise for me on how we may be able to make it. I hope you enjoy it: