“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...
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Do Some City Planning in Your Heart
A civil engineer here in Boise shared a consultant’s advice on how the city should plan for growth. The consultant listed three factors a city needs in order to create and sustain a thriving urban culture. 1) A cool downtown scene. 2) A reputable four-year college. 3)...
Cheap Thrills
“Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.” – Proverb 5:20-21 Why would you have an affair? That might sound like a rhetorical...