Soul crushing
We admire, praise, and worship those who enslave us.
Interests of others
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.
-Philippians 3:3-4 (NRSVCE)
Enough!
“Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough! The hour has come; the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.”
-Mark 14:41 (NRSVCE)
Wrong news
When you understand a topic and know the facts of how things work you realize that when news you watch, read, or listen to is not right about that topic. So, what do they get wrong on topics you know nothing about?
Tools
You kinda have to think about facts like tools instead of them as thinking about them as objective, independent realities because a bad tool can still work as a tool. Whereas the bad fact just kills you stone dead.
-Jordan Peterson
What’s a project?
Projects are how we change the world.
Five elements make up a project.
- It interacts with other people.
- It has a beginning and an end.
- It seeks to deliver a change, a desired result.
- It has constraints.
- It involves unknowns.
We still need unbound time (creativity) and we still have tasks to do. These are not projects.
(Notes from: Get It Done: Complete Projects that Matter with Seth Godin)
You are hated
Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.
-I John 3:13 (NRSVCE)
Do right
Brothers and sisters, do not be weary in doing what is right.
-2 Thessalonians 3:13 (NRSVCE)
Do we get weary in doing right? It’s easy to become weary when we seem to be the only one who is doing right in the world. When “wrong is the new right” and we are deemed living on the outside. There is no one there to encourage us but we still are not alone.
Romans 8:7-8
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
-Romans 8:7-8 (NRSVCE)