What is Public Notes?

Public Notes is a blog / wiki combination dedicated to exploring the intersection of order and creativity. It features insightful articles on beauty and design, technology, politics, religion, culture, local insights from Woodstock, Illinois, illustration, photography, and books. Additionally, it offers a rich collection of notes from sermons, lectures, books, podcasts, quotations, processes, philosophy, and theology. The platform curates content from various sources, making wisdom and creativity accessible and engaging for all.

Much of the Public Notes content is available via the publicnote.org Notion site.

Enhanced content, community engagement, and weightier cultural, political, and theological articles are accessible via the Public Notes Substack.

Why subscribe?

As a paid subscriber, you will receive the following weekly content:

  • 2-3 weekly note and creative articles

  • subscriber-only content

  • early-access content

  • access to all archived content

and benefit from the following experience:

  • over 17 years of technological experience and leadership in the K-12 education and software implementation, integration, and data analysis space

  • 4 years of formal political undergraduate education (UIUC)

  • 2 years of formal theological graduate education (TEDS)

  • decades of informal classical education and experience collecting, recording, and creating things of beauty and wisdom

  • years of navigation and survival through relational heartbreak and pain

  • 6 years of fatherhood and decades of appreciation that children are the greatest blessing and gifts of God

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A publication on order and creativity—design, tech, politics, religion, culture, local insights, illustration, and photography. A collection of notes on numerous disciplines. A repository of beauty, wisdom, and curiosity. Public engagement.