Prayer often precedes belief
“Prayer often precedes belief. Most popular understandings of prayer get this backwards. We think of prayer as mostly self-expressive. In this way of thinking, we begin with beliefs and feelings about God and the world, and because of these, we learn to pray. Our prayers put words to our inner life. But prayer actually shapes our inner life. And if we pray the prayers we’ve been given, regardless of how we feel about them or God at the time, we sometimes find, to our surprise, that they teach us how to believe.” (Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night)
“Our minds are constantly trying to bring God down to our level rather than letting him lift us into levels of which we were not previously capable.” (Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss)
“As you consume a piece of content, listen for an internal feeling of being moved or surprised by the idea you’re taking in. This special feeling of “resonance”—like an echo in your soul—is your intuition telling you that something is literally “noteworthy.”” (Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain)
“A small number of highly valuable tests will do a much better job sustaining project growth than a large number of mediocre tests.” (Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns)
🎼”All the angry people, where do they all come from? All the angry people, where do they all belong?”🎶
I’d like to get a decent electric guitar someday. Just have an acoustic (Yamaha) right now. What’s a good-yet-affordable starter set–guitar, amp, pedal(s), etc.? 🎸
Heard of FOMO? JOMO? What about JONHTHAOAETH? Joy of not having to have an opinion about everything that happens.
This was a very helpful overview of how to interrogate unfamiliar code!
Oh, wow. Yep.
“We underestimate kids’ helpfulness but overestimate their emotional intelligence.”
Ancient Traditions Reveal 2 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent - Barking Up The Wrong Tree via Instapaper
What are the best questions you’ve (been) asked in conversation? What’s worked far better than the well-worn questions? Even if the questions are still about mundane things, how have they been phrased in a way that helps conversation flourish?
Feeding religion through a polarization machine
Ah “religion,” such a slippery, inescapable thing. To be clear, I think a lot of this essay is oversimplified, but I resonated with this quote below.
“We have taken religion, with its innate possibility for sectarian conflict, and fed it through a polarization machine. No wonder that today’s politics can feel like a wasteland of anguished ranting—and like we are in hell already.”
How Social Justice Became a New Religion via Instapaper
Not so much a “career overview,” but this is a great summary of what software engineers do on a daily/weekly basis! What Does a Software Developer Do? | freeCodeCamp
Check it out! The Free Learning List
Good news, bad news, and a few good suggestions from @ayjay blog.ayjay.org
“Christian nationalism” is an oxymoron.
Is there a name for when a back-end API paginates/batches responses as a middleman between its own front-end client and a third party? BE receives request from FE, makes request to 3P, receives response w/a “nextLink”, and passes both response and nextLink to the FE?
“Schleiermacher was no Gefühl…”
What’s the best thing you’ve ever read during a “dark night of the soul”?
Just, you know, trying to get my life in order