Recently Consumed

This is a long one, best served skimmed.

As I haven’t posted one of these in a while, this one is quite long. As you’ll notice, I’ve had limited time for long-form reading (i.e., books), but I’ve had plenty of time for quick consumption.

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Books

• 📚 The New Testament: A Translation — David Bentley Hart

  • I’m a huge fan of Hart and really enjoyed this translation. His goal was to capture the feel of the Greek (poor grammar, disjointed arguments, tone of the individual author, etc.) in English. While my limited Greek skills mean I cannot opine on how well he did, I can say that his unique translation decisions made me stop and think about what the text is saying in a way I haven’t in quite some time.

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Articles

• 📄 We don't A/B test core values — David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Stick to your values and be the person or the company you can be proud of (even if it’s not as productive/profitable).

• 📄 Dear Church: Letter 2 — Chrishan Jayaratnam

• 📄 How to Write English Prose — David Bentley Hart

  • I linked the paid Substack link a few weeks ago, but here’s a free version of his writing tips.

• 📄 Pinpointing Where the Hypothesis Breaks Down | Finance Papers 1.5 —

  Wilson Harmond
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  Financial Deep Rewinds

  • And here’s the Twitter version for a summary.

• 📄 Big Tech is Destroying Ownership — Aperture

  • Video version

• 📄 Future tense, IV: America & the angels of Sacré-Cœur — David Bentley Hart

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I don’t know where to put this, but I read this email that Steve Jobs sent to himself nearing his death. Here it is in full:

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

Sent from my iPad

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Videos

• 🎥 c — jan Misali

  • Yes, this is a 30 min video on one letter.

• 🎥 w — jan Misali

  • And this is another one. (Though, this one is less 20 mins!)

• 🎥 Ideas Have Consequences: The Philosophers Who Shaped 2020 — Bishop Robert Barron

• 🎧Jony Ive & Anna Wintour in Conversation - RE:WIRED 2021: Designing for the Future We Want to Inhabit — WIRED

• 🎧 The Science Of The Body Clock: How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep And Health - Prof Russell Foster — Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

  • This busts a lot of common sleep myths.

• 🎥 Prayer & Paradise — Bridgetown Church/Tim Mackie

  • I too find it much easier to engage with God with my head than my soul.

• 🎥 Why Uber Fails to Disrupt Transportation — Modern MBA

• 🎥 Milk: The White Lie We’ve All Been Sold — Johnny Harris

• 🎧 The Story of the Last 18 Months — Cortext Podcast

  • I really like this podcast.

• 🎥 Logic at its Limits: The Grelling-Nelson Paradox — Dialect

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TV Shows

• 🎞️ Succession

  • I’ve seen multiple sources call it the best show actively running. I enjoyed it a lot. It’s slow moving, but rich.

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Tweets

One of those beautiful moments where you think you’re the only one just to find a whole community of people like you:

Michael Girdley @girdley

Revenge is a dish best-served cold.

Even if circumstances mean it's largely from afar, I love watching you be a father,

Wilson Harmond

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Wilson Harmond, CFA @WilsonHarmond

At baby gymnastics with the child and I’m struck by how many dads there are here. Maybe it’s them just giving the other parent a break. Maybe it’s dads of this generation being more active and involved in their children’s life. I’d like to hope it’s more of the latter.

Dr Jordan B Cooper @DrJordanBCooper

The Bible is completely sufficient for aerospace engineering. FULL STOP!

Tom Buck (Five Point Buck) @TomBuck

The Bible is completely sufficient for counseling. FULL STOP!

Matthew Hartke @MatthewHartke

The biblical case for universalism is decidedly mixed, but the theological case for universalism is unimpeachable.

Michael Lim @mikawl_lim

ChatGPT will make you stupid rich 🤑 You just have to tweet about it. You don't even have to use it. Nope-you don't even have to know what GPT stands for! Here are 5 viral thread ideas you can steal that are useless to 99% of twitter but will get thousands of retweets anyways

Jared Stacy @jaredstacy

“The entire way of life that was once the very essence of Christian existence—like contempt for wealth, civic dereliction, or hostility to mechanisms of imperial power—is the very way of life to which most Christian culture throughout the centuries has proved hostile.” —DBH

One day…

Biblingo @biblingoapp

C.S. Lewis wonderfully described the benefit of fluent reading over mental translation (Surprised by Joy, p. 136): "The great gain was that I very soon became able to understand a great deal without (even mentally) translating it; I was beginning to think in Greek." 1/

Biblingo @biblingoapp

Appendix: https://t.co/JcQih3EsBy

anton @abacaj

Frontend: We are an AI startup Backend: API call to gpt-3

Hannah Fry @FryRsquared

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying.

Greg Hands @GregHands

People more likely to be victims of crime in Labour-run areas, new study shows. https://t.co/lyYas3zMNG

Sam (from Wendover) @wendoverpro

Fun fact: you can become a highly paid YouTuber by getting really, really good at Googling. Or a highly paid software developer. Or a highly paid analyst. Turns out lots of jobs are more about learning than knowing, so education should probably be more about learning to learn

Naval @naval

Selfish morality:

I may just be stuck in my little internet bubble, but it seems that everyone wants better public transport. Why oh why, America??

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

Why did the USA do this to its cities?

National Park Service @NatlParkService

To avoid crowds, visit areas that are less crowded.

Great short thread on why you should ignore the pedantic requests of super-users:

Tiago Forte @fortelabs

They had to sacrifice and push back on 90% of the crypto community’s idealistic but unrealistic príncipes in service of bringing one breakthrough capability to the masses: Buy and sell crypto via an app

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

PROBABILITY MISTAKE DU JOUR Life expectancy (expected time left after retirement) is not the one at birth. In the US, life expectancy at 65 is ~84, "healthy" is much higher.

Andreas Markdalen @AMarkdalen

Biggest mystery of the past decade is Teenage Engineering 1) *not* being Acqui-hired by the FAANGs 2) not being able to scale as a challenger brand in mainstream lifestyle tech. Guessing they could have, and chose not to (integrity choice?). A missed opportunity no less.

Brett Adcock @adcock_brett

Job interviews always have a Q&A. But asking the wrong questions could cost you. 12 questions to get more job offers:

David Senra @FoundersPodcast

Steve Jobs on what it takes to make “insanely great” products:

Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert

A quick PSA about psa: Penal substitutionary atonement (the theory that God killed Jesus on the cross to appease his wrath against humanity) is about 500 years old in origin, 200 in popular belief, and still widely discredited outside of white American evangelicalism.

Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush

Every idea can be written 4 ways: • Actionable (here's how) • Analytical (here's a teardown) • Aspirational (yes, you can) • Anthropological (here's why) Browse any section on Amazon. The 4A's are everywhere.

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And yes, I did finally clear out my Twitter bookmarks.