“Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.” – Proverbs 11:22 “Drain the shallows.” It’s a great chapter title within Cal Newport’s classic-in-the-making, Deep Work. He's thinking of the internet. In our eternal striving to appreciate...
Folly Has a Strategic Plan to Get You
“The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town.” - Proverbs 9:13-14 Junk mail has gotten savvier. There’s one method that gets me every time. It’s when I get a plain...
What Happens When You Stop Getting Bored?
You know what scares me most? Boredom. And I have a sneaking suspicion it's the same for you, especially if you’re under thirty. I worked with teenagers for over a decade and people would regularly ask: ‘What do you think is the biggest challenge for teenagers today?’...
Substance over semblance
“Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.” – Proverbs 12:9 Credit card debt is one of the most sadistic inventions of the past hundred years. People can now pay for luxury they can’t afford like never before. That’s not the only...