Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
July 4, 2011
This is an idea whose time has come. It is easy, simple, saves money, and I think it seeds the mission of God in N America for generations to come: STOP FUNDING TRADITIONAL CHURCH PLANTS and instead fund missionaries to inhabit contexts all across the new mission fields of N America.
July 2, 2011
adaptive path / business / design / user experience
It’s funny how Apple’s moves are really just taking us full circle. For our research, we also wandered the farmers’ market at the Ferry Building (which happens to be next to our office). And the kind of transactions you see in that environment—chatting about the products available, handing over cash, counting out change, walking away with your item—are how we have conducted commerce for hundreds of years, and the simply human-ness of this exchange is far more appealing than the computerized beeps and back black panels and ‘Waiting for authorization…’ that we have becomed used to.
July 1, 2011
If the church were to focus on entering into relationship with the poor instead of merely having compassion for the poor or instead of working for justice for the poor, then the church could learn from the poor.
July 1, 2011
This is (to me) an entirely new way of looking at leadership. In this case, it’s looking at engineering positions, though it would just as profoundly transform design teams, or probably any other kind of team. It’s a way to take advantage of leaders without taking them away from what they do well, and this is unique in the business world.
July 1, 2011
Just what it says: black metal, with a vegan paid thai recipe.
June 28, 2011
With simple forethought and commitment, you can do a much better job than most other speakers regardless of how much “talent” you have.
June 25, 2011
culture / politics / story / theology
What is the point here? The point is that there IS no point to endless argumentation. Hearts and minds don’t change that way. They change when we share our stories and when we become present in a different way to those whom we wish to influence. The further point is that hearts change before minds do. It rarely works the other way around.
June 21, 2011
Learn what an essay really is. Hint: it’s not what they taught in school. It’s something far more interesting and, yes, surprising. I had no idea where this was going.
June 20, 2011
Modern social science backs her up on this. “Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing,” Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory at Swarthmore College, told me. “But happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.” It’s precisely this goal, though, that many modern parents focus on obsessively—only to see it backfire. Observing this phenomenon, my colleagues and I began to wonder: Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?
June 20, 2011
Take a step back and think of why we make, and can remake.