Consumed this Week (and last)

Books

• 🎧 The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger — Marc Levinson

Articles

• 📄 How Narcissism Is Tearing Us Apart — Craig Harper Ph.D.

  • I’ve been meaning to read (and maybe write) more on collective narcissism and how many churches have a theology of exceptionalism that leads them to believe that they are God’s chosen church, greater than all others, and they alone can fulfil God’s vision for the church on the earth. (Obviously this is never said explicitly; God forbid our solipsistic thoughts be revealed!)

• 📄 Is the West Becoming Pagan Again? — Christopher Caldwell

• 📄 Don’t Treat Your Life as a Project — Kieran Setiya

  • Your life isn’t a grand narrative, and that’s a good thing.

• 📄 When the Best Bible-Reading Tool Made Bible-Reading Worse — Daniel G. Hummel

  • How the ‘tools’—specifically, the concordance—that we use to engage with the Bible directly impact our interpretation of Scripture.

• 📄 The Rise of the Triple Peak Day

  • Thanks for telling me about this phenomenon,

    Wilson Harmond
    .

Videos

• 🎥 a brief yet informative history of Minesweeper — People Like Games

  • TL;DW: it was created to teach people how to use a mouse.

• 🎥 ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits — RobWords

• 🎥 Why Japan is Giving Away 8 Million Free Houses— PolyMatter

• 🎥 How the CIA Found Osama bin Laden — neo

  • neo has some of the best looking videos on YouTube.

Games

• ♟️ Deep Sea Adventure

• ♟️ Exploding Kittens

Tweets

Tiago Forte @fortelabs

Some context on what I mean by “a serious company building a reliable app for mainstream users” 👇

Tiago Forte @fortelabs

We really need a graph-based PKM app built by a serious company for mainstream users • Roam is a religion • Obsidian is a side hobby • Logseq is an open-source project • Tana is barely in alpha If there was just one reliable app in this space I’d refer so much traffic to it

• Re: Above Tweet: Coinbase disregarded 90% of what the crypto community wanted in order to bring bring and selling crypto through an app to the masses. Normal people do not want or care about what the super-users do. And it’s this reason why my favourite PKM apps will never reach the mainstream and why I will always fear them going out of business.

  Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns

  I need the authors I know to hear this: Footnotes on the page you're reading are infinitely better than endnotes you have to flip to the back of the book for. I will die on this hill. What kind of psychopath would ever prefer endnotes?

  Sam (from Wendover) @wendoverpro

  I think it’s interesting how America’s top vacation spots are simulations of or actual walkable cities: NYC, Disneyworld, the Las Vegas Strip, Colorado ski towns, Honolulu’s Waikiki beach, New Orleans’s French Quarter… It’s almost like we recognize walkable cities are ideal…

Dave Adamson @aussiedave

If you’re “outraged” by this Andy Stanley quote … you probably haven’t spoken to a “non-Christian” in a decade.

Jacob Huneycutt @jacobhuneycutt_

An object lesson in not quote mining