Finished reading: Everything Is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson š
“Prudence is the only principle that can guide us in the right use of technology: a willingness to weigh every proposed innovation and transformation carefully against what we know of human nature, and a recognition that our technologies will in fact shape us and change us.”
Tech Policyās Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
“The deficit in trinitarian faith that afflicts American evangelicalism is no small thing. It results in preaching that pictures Jesus as the way to God, while hardly noticing that Jesus is God already with us, giving us not only salvation but God himself in his own flesh.”
William Lane Craig and Evangelicalismās Trinitarian Deficit by Phillip Cary
“Ironically, this unthinking repetition confirms one of Socratesās greatest fears: that a society blessed with the written word would content itself with thoughtlessly regurgitating facts divorced from context and excuse itself from the trouble of wrestling with living ideas.”
Tech Policyās Libertarian Hangover by Brad Littlejohn
165 miles in August! Itās been so, so great getting back on the bike. Exercise, commute, and fun all at the same time. š²
“So far this year, three times as many people have died by cars in Davidson County as by gunshot wounds.”
Blindspot: How Nashville Addresses Death and Design on City Roads by Eli Motycka
“That therefore in these both curious and unhappy differences, which have for so many hundred years, in different times and places, exercised the Church of Christ, we will, that all further curious search be laid aside, and these disputes shut up in God’s promises, as they be generally set forth to us in the Holy Scriptures, and the general meaning of the Articles of the Church of England according to them.”
The King’s Declaration by hanover.edu
“what I hate the most about right on red is the explicit sanction it gives drivers, myself among them, to use their own judgment. It is a zone of permitted lawlessness relying on the ability and morality of the average driver.”
Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further by 00 AM EDT
“Public transit, on the other hand, is a proven technology that, among other things, strengthens the social contract while giving everyone the ability to move around a city.”
āEvery Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Furtherā ā„ defector.com by Nick Heer
That was a wild game! From depressed, defeat, to a one point lead in the last few minutes.
Currently reading: Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond by Matthew Loftus š
“virtue is the habit of doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons.”
The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman, Dale Ahlquist
“holiness isn’t for a select few; it is for everyone.”
The Catholic Gentleman by Sam Guzman, Dale Ahlquist
Itās interesting watching the traffic on Demonbreun during lunch. At any given time there are more people on the narrow sidewalks and bike lanes than in the cars. And yet, the cars take up 90% of the space and require everyone else to wait on them to cross the street and move about.
Finished reading: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare š
“He assumes that we know what people want because they buy it, and we know that they buy it because they want it.”
No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon by Henry Farrell
“Concrete protection makes bike lanes viable for riders of all ages and abilities and also adds meaningful protection for people both walking and biking.”
State of Our Streets by Walk Bike Nashville
“When you have convinced yourself incorrectly that you know what a book says, it takes a lot of hard work and serious thinking to unravel your misconceptions.”
No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon by Henry Farrell
Major props to my employer, Craft Education. They have given us cyclists (three of us so far) a parking room. I get to āparkā my bike just around the corner from my desk, right by the elevator. Not dealing with the bike rack has been great!
Cycling to work has been great, but I do often wonder if any of our city leaders have ever tried to cycle in our city.
Case in point: After decades, our only cycle and pedestrian bridge dumps you off directly onto the street where you are left to hope that a tourist actually lets you cross. (They almost never do.)
Then, you sneak across the symphony where you are left to cross another street where no one yields.
Then you sneak across a park. The park is sometimes closed, so you have to cross through the front drive of a hotel.
Then and only then are you back on an unprotected bike lane.
Happy Lordās Day! ā Go to Mass! ā¤ļø āŖļø
““Sabbath rest is not just a nothing, a not-doing, but a something that requires creating.” And what he creates is rest itself. The Sabbath is thus for ceasing and feasting.”
How Shall We Then Rest? by Karl E. Johnson
When did all this āfeels likeā stuff start? It does not āfeel likeā 101. It feels like 86, in Tennessee, in August. Iām sure 86 might āfeelā different on a beach or in the desert, but how is that relevant to the forecast?
“The whole effort of ālearning a languageā is training oneās adaptive unconscious: helping it acquire the knowledge it needs and ensuring it gets enough practice to take over basic tasks.”
Learning to Learn a Language by Michael Ham