From Monk to Marketer
Some thoughts on 'Church for Normies' and allowing myself to be an unsatisfactory Christian.
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Readings & Annotations
Quick notes on things I'm reading. You can expect nascent ideas and half-formed thoughts.
Review: Aggressively Happy
Finding happiness in a fallen world
Book Notes: “Stand Out of Our Light"
Stand Out of Our Light might be the best and most accessible introduction to the human stakes of the attention economy.
Two Quotations on Intention & Adversarial Design
“Technologies of control” can frustrate human intention, prioritizing a productive logic of scale over a more humane logic of growth.
Book Notes: "The World Beyond Your Head"
When I picked up The World Beyond Your Head from my local library I expected arguments against smartphones and algorithms but got something very different.
Notes: Snow Days and Slack
What's lost when we live life planned and packed to its utter limits?
A Quarterly Education
Print journals for lifelong learning
The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for An Age of Distraction
True freedom requires limits.
God’s Grace in your Suffering by David Powlison
After reading David Powlison’s How Does Sanctification Work? and being refreshed
by its practical, down-to-earth wisdom, I was excited to read more from
Powlison. God’s Grace in your Suffering has proved to be a timely read as I
confront my own needs along with the needs of those
2017: Reading Highlights
The year in reading.