https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/ Recent content in All Issues on The Wayfinder Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/same-mission-different-road/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/same-mission-different-road/ The Thing About Identity When I stepped out of pastoral ministry and into business, people saw a pastor trying to figure out the real world. That stung a little. Not because it was mean. But because inside, I already knew what I was doing. The Holy Spirit was in the boardroom the same way He’d been in the sanctuary. The discernment I’d built in ministry was sharper than ever — in sales calls, in reading clients, in understanding what people actually needed versus what they said they needed. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-inevitable-future/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-inevitable-future/ The Month the Work Stopped In January 2024, something changed. I had been writing copy on Fiverr, serious copy, up to $100 an hour, steady work. Then one month, the orders dried up. I reached out to clients. Some admitted they had switched to AI. Others just ghosted me. It didn’t slow down. It stopped. It took me no time to recognize what was happening. And even less time to recognize what it meant. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/building-an-inheritance-that-works/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/building-an-inheritance-that-works/ What Do You Leave Behind? I’m not planning on going anywhere soon. But I am planning. The day is coming, for all of us, when we won’t be here anymore. And when that day comes for me, I want my children to have the how. The method. The repeatable process that built the businesses. That’s what drives me to build what I call my apps, the R7 Ecosystem. Software that delivers my service and an inheritance that works. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/adapt-or-get-replaced/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/adapt-or-get-replaced/ The Ground Is Moving Under Your Feet Nobody fully understands how fast AI is accelerating. Yet everyone seems to be predicting one inevitable outcome: AI takes over industries, takes over jobs, and the rest of us are left holding the bag. And to some degree, it’s happening. Every day. It’s causing panic, fear, and real joblessness. Since 2025, roughly 55,000 people have been laid off from major companies with AI cited as the direct reason. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-next-phone-book/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-next-phone-book/ You’ve Seen This Movie Before There’s a version of this story that already has an ending, and some of us lived through it. Back in the phone book era. Before the internet changed everything, if your business wasn’t listed in the Yellow Pages, you didn’t exist. Nobody questioned it. Of course you were in the phone book. That was what businesses did. Every Technology Wave = Slow Adoption Then came the internet and a new layer of infrastructure: websites. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-12-steps-to-real-vibe-coding/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-12-steps-to-real-vibe-coding/ You Tried the Easy Way. Now Let’s Do It Right. You signed up for an all-in-one vibe coding tool. Maybe Lovable. Maybe Replit or Bolt. You typed in what you wanted, got something impressive the somewhat worked. Then you hit a wall. And no amount of prompting could fix the mess you were in I’ve been there. And I’ve watched hundreds of people on Reddit go through the same cycle. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-workflow-that-actually-makes-vibe-coding-work/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/the-workflow-that-actually-makes-vibe-coding-work/ The Chaos Isn’t the Code I kept getting stuck. Not with the code itself — with the mess that happens when you skip the thinking and jump straight to building. You end up reworking things you shouldn’t have built in the first place. So I built a system to fix that. I posted a condensed version on Reddit and it hit nearly 7,000 views and 32 shares. This is the full version. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/why-i-ditched-clickup-for-notion/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/why-i-ditched-clickup-for-notion/ The Tool That Finally Stuck I’ve been around the block with project management software. Wrike. Monday.com. ClickUp. Notion. Tried them all. Built custom workflows in most of them. Ran teams of two doing the work of six, and teams of six doing the work of twelve. So when I tell you I fully switched, it wasn’t an impulse decision. Most recently I used ClickUp all the way through August of last year. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/lessons-from-three-bosses/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/lessons-from-three-bosses/ The boss you have reveals the future you’re building. I’ve worked for three different bosses. Each one taught me something different about what I was willing to tolerate, what I was capable of, and where I needed to go next. If you’re trying to figure out whether to stay or leave, start here: which boss do you have? Boss #1: The Chaotic Manipulator Disorganized. Motivational when it served them. Talented at creating revenue. https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/agency-the-fuel-that-moves-everything/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.keithgroben.com/issues/agency-the-fuel-that-moves-everything/ The Car Nobody’s Driving You might know someone smart. Went to school for years. Figured things out fast. Super talented. But nothing much came of them. You also know someone else. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But they move. They make things happen. They’re the one everybody wants on their team. What’s the difference? It’s not education. It’s not credentials. It’s agency. Static Assets vs. The Fuel Think about a high-performance car.