The Servant's Goal

So I published my first book....

So I published my first book, The Servant’s Goal.

It’s a Christian book. If that surprises you, it probably should — I’m an engineer by formation, a Unix guy by conviction, and I’ve spent thirty years making complex systems legible to the people who need them. Not an obvious profile for religious publishing.

But here’s the thing: I’ve been watching people sit in churches for decades collecting fire insurance, and it finally bothered me enough to write about it. The book is called The Servant’s Goal, and it’s about Matthew 25 — specifically the part where Jesus sorts people not by what they claimed to believe, but by what they did that demonstrated genuine faith. The sheep didn’t know they were serving him. The goats didn’t know they weren’t.

That asymmetry has always struck me as the most important and least preached passage in the Gospels. So I preached it. In book form. To whoever will read it.

Why start here, before the infrastructure writing, before the Emacs book, before the other things in the queue? Because this one was ready. Because the argument was complete. Because compression without loss means you ship the thing when it’s done, not when the timing is convenient.

The servant’s goal isn’t recognition, rescue, and reward. It’s the work.

The Servant’s Goal is available now on Amazon in paperback and ebook.