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diff --git a/all.xml b/all.xml index bed83c586..ab3d3122f 100644 --- a/all.xml +++ b/all.xml @@ -10,7 +10,38 @@ quarto-1.4.515 -Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:48:38 GMT +Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:17:17 GMT + + The Compounding Interest of Reading + Bryan Whiting + https://www.bryanwhiting.com/posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html + I’m on my way to get 52 books read this year. I think I can do it.

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But it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?

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Because of compounding interest. One book doesn’t level you up. But multiple books over time will affect you for a long while to come.

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If you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).

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So don’t worry what any one book gives you. Just keep investing. A few will pay off big, and the many “wasted” will have little downside.

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But it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?

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If you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).

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    But it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?

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    Because of compounding interest. One book doesn’t level you up. But multiple books over time will affect you for a long while to come.

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    If you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).

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    So don’t worry what any one book gives you. Just keep investing. A few will pay off big, and the many “wasted” will have little downside.

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    Here lies Bryan, son of Aragon, data scientist extraordinaire who knew how to use regular expressions and properly test linear regression assumptions

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    Why do we measure our lives by something nobody cares about? Consider Steve Jobs, Isaac Newton, or whomever you idolize. What are they known for? Only a few things.

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    I read Steve Jobs (Biography) a while back. And I also read Leonardo da Vinci. First was 25 hours, second was 17 hours. And guess what - that’s less than two days combined. Two “impressive” lives summed up in a few days.

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    I’m on my way to get 52 books read this year. I think I can do it.

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    If you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).

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Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nList of Study Topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to study\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he wrote about, and things haven’t changed for 20 years. People in power still seek power. Seek to restrict freedoms of few, in an attempt to empower the many, in the name of equity and cosmic justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletters I follow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nxxx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nretrospective\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI grew up near some of the best\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmodern living\n\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nHow I approach reading.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAudiobooks\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nListen here, there, anywhere.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth the read.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLegal AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nLegal AI companies and solutions\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Toothbrush\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe power to clean and the power to refresh\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npersonal experiments\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\nbig tech\n\n\nincentives\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrelationships\n\n\nai\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Haircuts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s not about the hair, but who cut it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for time, however temporary.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHard Work and its Reward\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\neffort\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nGood work, consistently done, is meaningful and a reward itself\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat startups and musicians have in common\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA recently signed Artist is their own startup\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe future wave of AI hype\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nnews\n\n\nchart critique\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nA video is worth a thousand words\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nWhy and how I write\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dream State of Software\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndesign\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nGen AI will blur the lines between what’s dreamed and what’s real - hopefully in a near instant blend of ever evolving software adapting instantly to needs\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’m grateful for\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe I’ll write these in a post, maybe not.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbusiness strategy\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nsales\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat the software industry and fashion have in common: a divinely discontent customer and excited competitors\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBooks always have been and always will be a captivating way to tell a thought provoking story.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for rest\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nobservations\n\n\n\nRest is restorative\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReplacing human work with AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nautomation\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nReactions to an MIT article ‘4 questions to ask before swapping out human labor for AI’\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEyes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful I can see.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeaches\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nwater\n\n\nbeach\n\n\nsunset\n\n\n\nThe rhythmic but unique crash of each wave is soothing\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThose who create, who learn, who think in new ways, who pioneer, who explore. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n10 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write just trains an AI agent to do their job better? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for blankets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nMy grandma made blankets cool \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?) \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for doctors\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nDoctors of the body. Doctors of the mind. Doctors of the soul…Any engaged in the pursuit of healing. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLight\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI set up 72 lights today. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light? \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next? \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread? \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 18, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 17, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved? \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 16, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool AI Tweets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nRunning list of cool things I’ve seen. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 14, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet, make time-series forecasts, and visualize the data (with a little assistance). \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 15, 2022\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 6, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Nov 12, 2022\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jul 20, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jul 3, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 25, 2022\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jun 20, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Apr 30, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 17, 2021\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Charles Duhigg\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 19, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 16, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 2, 2018\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 19, 2017\n\n\n14 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 18, 2017\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 10, 2017\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Nov 17, 2016\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading List\n\n\n\n\n\nWish list of books\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 1, 2015\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“All blogs are wrong, but some are useful.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Title\n \n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nIndex your local files and chat with them\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGPT4All\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nRun LLMs locally\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nai\n\n\nlocal ai\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nclosed source\n\n\n\nRun OpenAI in a native Mac App\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Compliments\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nleadership\n\n\ncharity\n\n\n\nThey’re financially cheap, but when sincere are incredibly valuable\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\nclassics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt brings people together, and many people can contribute in their own way\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nstrength\n\n\ntrust in the Lord\n\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for YouTube\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nAnd for everything I’ve learned on it\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nhand of the Lord\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rescue Workers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nWe in America have hundreds of people ready to help us at a moment’s notice\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Imagination\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chirping Birds\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for the time of day and time of year they make their presence known.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 27, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nobedience\n\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\nHow to break into data science with an understanding how the modern data economy works\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rock Climbing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nadventure\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nBecause I’m still alive, and I had fun.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHis story.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Perspectives\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nNever know when you’re gonna break a bone. But sometimes it’s a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Challenges\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchallenges\n\n\n\nLife has a way of refining us. But isn’t refinement what we seek?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\napocalyptic\n\n\nfiction\n\n\ndystopian\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\npsychology\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neducation\n\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe freedoms I enjoy come at the sacrifices of those who came before\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Early Morning Workouts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nIt was good then, and the effects have been lifelong\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Similarities\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nWe’re all very similar in many ways\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nlove\n\n\nlove of God\n\n\nagency\n\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Social Gatherings\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nHumans are made for social gatherings, whether you’re introverted or not\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nList of Study Topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to study\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he wrote about, and things haven’t changed for 20 years. People in power still seek power. Seek to restrict freedoms of few, in an attempt to empower the many, in the name of equity and cosmic justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletters I follow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nxxx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nretrospective\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI grew up near some of the best\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmodern living\n\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nHow I approach reading.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAudiobooks\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nListen here, there, anywhere.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth the read.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLegal AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nLegal AI companies and solutions\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Toothbrush\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe power to clean and the power to refresh\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npersonal experiments\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\nbig tech\n\n\nincentives\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrelationships\n\n\nai\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Haircuts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s not about the hair, but who cut it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for time, however temporary.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHard Work and its Reward\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\neffort\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nGood work, consistently done, is meaningful and a reward itself\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat startups and musicians have in common\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA recently signed Artist is their own startup\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe future wave of AI hype\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nnews\n\n\nchart critique\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nA video is worth a thousand words\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nWhy and how I write\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dream State of Software\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndesign\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nGen AI will blur the lines between what’s dreamed and what’s real - hopefully in a near instant blend of ever evolving software adapting instantly to needs\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’m grateful for\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe I’ll write these in a post, maybe not.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbusiness strategy\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nsales\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat the software industry and fashion have in common: a divinely discontent customer and excited competitors\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBooks always have been and always will be a captivating way to tell a thought provoking story.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for rest\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nobservations\n\n\n\nRest is restorative\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReplacing human work with AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nautomation\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nReactions to an MIT article ‘4 questions to ask before swapping out human labor for AI’\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEyes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful I can see.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeaches\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nwater\n\n\nbeach\n\n\nsunset\n\n\n\nThe rhythmic but unique crash of each wave is soothing\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThose who create, who learn, who think in new ways, who pioneer, who explore. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n10 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write just trains an AI agent to do their job better? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for blankets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nMy grandma made blankets cool \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?) \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for doctors\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nDoctors of the body. Doctors of the mind. Doctors of the soul…Any engaged in the pursuit of healing. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLight\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI set up 72 lights today. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light? \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next? \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread? \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 18, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 17, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved? \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 16, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool AI Tweets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nRunning list of cool things I’ve seen. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 14, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet, make time-series forecasts, and visualize the data (with a little assistance). \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 15, 2022\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 6, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Nov 12, 2022\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jul 20, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jul 3, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 25, 2022\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jun 20, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Apr 30, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 17, 2021\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Charles Duhigg\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 19, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 16, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 2, 2018\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 19, 2017\n\n\n14 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 18, 2017\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 10, 2017\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Nov 17, 2016\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading List\n\n\n\n\n\nWish list of books\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 1, 2015\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { "objectID": "posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.html", @@ -549,1019 +549,1051 @@ "text": "Link to the 1912 publication, Twas the Night Before Christmas\noriginal poem was 1820’s\nSt Nick was 4th century\nDutch brought the name “Sinterklass” to the U.S. in the 1600’s.\nSt Nick becomes red by 1931, thanks to Coke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe OG St. Nick\n\n\nEverything below is produced by GPT:\n“How long has the concept of Santa been around? Where did”st nick” come from?”\n\nThe concept of Santa Claus has evolved over many centuries, originating from the historical figure of Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century Christian bishop in Myra, which is now part of modern-day Turkey. He was known for his generosity and for performing miracles, which earned him a reputation as a protector of children and sailors.\n\n\nThe name “Santa Claus” evolved from the Dutch “Sinterklaas,” a short form of Sint Nikolaas (Saint Nicholas). Dutch immigrants brought the traditions of Sinterklaas to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. In these traditions, Sinterklaas was depicted as a serious, religious figure who rewarded good children and punished the naughty ones.\n\n\nDuring the 19th century, especially in America, the image of Santa Claus as we know it today began to take shape. The 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (commonly known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) played a crucial role in shaping the modern character of Santa Claus, including his physical appearance and the tradition of delivering gifts to children.\n\n\nLater, in the 19th and 20th centuries, Santa’s image was further popularized through various media, including advertisements, films, and songs, which contributed to the jovial, red-suited, and reindeer-driving character recognized globally today. This character represents a blend of the historical Saint Nicholas, folk traditions from various cultures, and modern commercial and media influences.\n\nHow did St Nick become red?\n\nThe transformation of Saint Nicholas into the red-suited Santa Claus is a gradual evolution influenced by cultural, artistic, and commercial factors. The image of Santa Claus wearing red clothes began to become popular in the 19th century, but it was solidified in the 20th century, particularly through advertising.\n\n\n\n19th Century Literature and Art: In the 19th century, Santa Claus was often depicted in various colors of robes, including blue, green, and brown. However, by the latter half of the 19th century, the image of Santa in a red suit began to appear more frequently in literature and illustrations. Thomas Nast, a prominent American cartoonist, played a significant role in popularizing this image. In his illustrations for Harper’s Weekly starting in the 1860s, Nast depicted Santa Claus in a variety of outfits, including the now-familiar red suit.\n\n\n\n\nCoca-Cola Advertising in the 20th Century: The standardized image of Santa Claus in a red suit with white fur trim was popularized and became iconic largely due to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. In 1931, Coca-Cola commissioned illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create a Santa Claus for their Christmas advertising campaign. Sundblom’s Santa was jolly, rotund, and dressed in a red suit with white fur trim, which matched the company’s color scheme. These advertisements were widely circulated and became immensely popular, cementing the image of Santa Claus in a red suit in the public’s imagination.\n\n\n\nWhile the red-suited Santa Claus is now ubiquitous, it’s important to note that the evolution of his image was influenced by a blend of historical, cultural, and commercial factors over several decades.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", - "href": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", - "title": "Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy", + "objectID": "posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.html", + "href": "posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.html", + "title": "The Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative", "section": "", - "text": "Just watched this clip:\n\nImportant discussion points: as a novice you’re worried about where to go or picking the wrong thing.\nI remember not taking an opportunity to learn C++ because “that’s not what I want to do”. In another occasion I wanted to learn PySpark over SQL because Python…\nWhile I don’t regret that choice per se, because I chose something else I was interested in, I’ve largely come to realize that I don’t care what programming language I’m using. I care about getting the job done.\nAlso, I’m probably over the 10,000 hours of something, I just don’t know what. Am I an ML expert? Data expert? SQL? Python? R?\nIs it the application of the skill that makes you an expert? I’m not sure. Because I think novices can do some incredible things if they hone in.\nIf you read one book on a topic, you’re by no means an “expert”, but you probably know more about that topic than 99% of the nation. I learned this when I spent 6 months diving into the home security industry for my first job. Pretty sure I knew more about that than anyone I spoke to. Was I an expert? I really only had maybe 300 hours. Maybe I was inexperienced. Sure.\nAnd who spends literally 10,000 hours on any one thing? Like 10,000 hours on XGBoost? Image classification? Deep learning? Machine learning? A/B testing? Spreadsheets? Generalist vs specialist, etc. if you’re an ML scientist at Google, you worry about very different things than an ML scientist at a startup. At a startup, you worry about your bigquery allocation and pipeline failures. At Google you worry about what your 5th skip VP is going to deprecate that month.\nThat’s just the nature of education. There are so many things in the world to know…that being an “expert” is a relative thing. But I agree that working hard and learning useful things helps you innovate faster.\n\n\n\nI’d change my opinion on being an expert if I needed to beat Rocky.\n\n\nLast thing, the crux is: don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to yourself. That’s how you assess your progress.\nBut I’d argue: why even compare yourself to yourself? Compare your solution to the problem. Does it matter if you have 10,000 hours? No. What matters is if the solution fits. This is why innovations and disruptions come from unexpected places: because novices can nail solutions.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The easiest thing one can do is see the world through their own viewpoints. It takes no effort. Takes no work. It’s already done: your viewpoints are there. Either you care about climate change today or you don’t. Either you care about opossums or you don’t. You are who you are, right now.\nThe only gap between who you are today and who you are tomorrow is what you learn and experience and how you see the world because of what you learn and experience.\nYou learn from others. You learn from your experiences. You learn from other’s experiences.\nThe goal isn’t to be right. The goal is to understand.\nAnd so, I believe in the value of learning from those around me, especially those I disagree with. It’s hard work to grind through walls of disbelief or misunderstanding. But it’s always worth it, even if at the other side you merely understand. That in and of itself is a destination worth pursuing because of the many benefits it yields.\nBut beware, with an assumption of understanding comes peril. Therefore, the goal is to constantly seek understanding, because no person is every the same one day to the next.\n\n\n\nSeeing through a glass darkly and then clearly\n\n\nSources: - How to Win Friends and Influence People - the constant focus of the book is to put yourself in the other’s shoes. - Greenlights African tribe: don’t seek to be right. Seek to understand. - The Coddling of the American Mind - tribalism is when you don’t see another’s viewpoint and only feel you are right.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", - "title": "Get rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.", + "objectID": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", + "title": "When data collection goes too far", "section": "", - "text": "I’ve had less meetings and more unstructured time during WFH. It can be isolating, which can slow down productivity.\nHere’s a tip I read today on how to be productive with unstructured time: put your to-do list directly into a calendar.\nThat way, you’ll always have time for the important things. Remove the things that take up your time and aren’t as important. I like it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Self Surveillance\nI came across this article in Flowing Data and thought it was fascinating.\nI’ve been on a productivity kick lately and notice these apps have habit trackers. I’ve tried using them in the past and have realized it gets too much too quickly. But that doesn’t mean as a data guy that I don’t think it’s a cool idea. It just overwhelms me.\nWe’ll I discovered that me tracking a few habits a day is junior varsity level. Felix’s blog is how it’s done to the extreme. Clearly this guy isn’t worried about Big Tech or Big Government harvesting his personal data. I love the boldness!\nThis is just 1/20th of the full page screen shot:\n\nThe number of slices and views he has is endless. It’s crazy to see everything he’s tracking, partly I’m sure because he has fun with it and the other part because he deep down hopes there’s something there.\nHis quote on Flowing Data has stuck with me:\n\nOverall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.\n\nThis guy probably knows himself in a way that none of us ever will. He can’t ever lie to himself and say “yea, I’m good at exercising every day” because he’s got the data to back it up. But is this the life we want?\n\n\nSelf Surveillance as a Service\nSSaaS? Apparently. Exist.io tries to find patterns in your personal data and tell you when your most happy.\n\n\n\nExist.io\n\n\nWhen I researched the Apple Watch team a few years back I came to appreciate what they were/are trying to do: correlate heart monitoring with insurance claims data to proactively identify preemptive signs of cardiac arrest and other health issues.\nThat seems meaningful in theory because information about other people can be correlated with information about me.\nBut does info about myself correlate with info about myself? Probably. I have cycles. I have common traps and pitfalls like any human walking this earth. Some pitfalls are daily, some are quarterly or seasonal.\nBut I can also take 5 minutes to ponder reflectively or talk to a close friend and identify those patterns. What’s more human?\nAnd what’s more: if you end up changing your behavior then your past can’t really predict your future. So all of the data becomes moot once it achieves its purpose: true lasting change. Because if you truly change your behavior based on the insights you glean about yourself, those past triggers and anomalies no longer affect you in the way they did. So when you experience a personal step change in life, you’re a new you. Maybe not. But maybe.\nAlso, the new generations growing up on smartphones have a unique challenge: their online identities are given to them before they’re really conscious enough to determine if that’s what they want to show the world. Parents posting YouTube or TikToks of their kids are cementing for these kids an identity they themselves didn’t choose. We’ve all gone through phases of deleting Facebook photos from 15 years ago because it doesn’t reflect our current self image. What’s to be said of giving people an opportunity to change if everything they’ve ever said or done is recorded somewhere? Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. Every post is cementing us in a way.\nI think it’s better to forget yesterday. Because it doesn’t have to have any bearing on where you’re going tomorrow. It can if you let it. But your past doesn’t have to define you.\n\n\nTakeaways\nWould you rather spend hours setting up digital automatic and manual tracking systems just to learn what you could by opening a gratitude journal every day? Sometimes less is more. I don’t think digital self surveillance is a direction we should go. (Not to mention the moment you do get hacked you’ll deeply regret it.)\nEven blogging can be dangerous for your career. Never know what’s gonna come back to haunt you years later.\nSo I should be careful what I say here, that is if I ever care to work for a self surveillance company in the future.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", - "title": "Learn by doing", + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.html", + "title": "The Allegory of the Dodo", "section": "", - "text": "TL;DR: Yes, unintelligent people can use things without fully understanding them\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany people have their noses up their ass when they claim you can't use an algorithm you don't fully understand.They give themselves this fake moral superiority. They must be the only ones who belong because they know every detail.This is all bullshit.Here are a few simple…\n\n— Santiago (@svpino) December 12, 2023\n\n\nWhile the language is perhaps a bit strong, I agree with the sentiment here.\nI don’t have a PhD but have been limited twice in my career by those who wish I had one. What would having a PhD give you that I don’t have?\nWell, I trust you more if you had one.\nJeremy Howard, a world renowned research and creator of fast.ai and answers.ai started his lectures on deep learning with “you don’t need to have a math degree, you just need to know a little bit of code”. With that philosophy he’s helped entrepreneurs create amazing products that left his free online program.\n\nBlindspots tho\nConcepts are important to understand. Understanding your training data and how the machines learn from them and the biases they’re prone to is very useful, perhaps mission critical, to creating value.\nSo what’s the line? Well, if you got a PhD you’d probably spend 80% of your time on your dissertation and taking some non relevant coursework. How does that help you today?\nWell, you should learn as many concepts as you can. Like driving a car, you don’t need to know hydroplaning but you should learn hydroplaning. You don’t need to know how to drive in snow but you should know that driving a car in the snow with rear wheel drive is a different experience.\nIf you live in Arizona you don’t need to know how to drive in the snow. Your bias is you’ll never know why that would be necessary.\n\n\nPrinciple\nBe so curious that you explore the boundaries of your space such that you learn “oh, cars work differently in snow, but I don’t have snow so I’m safe”. Once you reach the boundary you probably know enough. Then ship your code and learn by how you messed things up.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The scoop\nThere’s a great kids book, called “There’s a dodo on the wedding cake”.\nSo there’s this dodo, right, who walks in and hops on a cake. The attending violinist then scares it away and is praised for protecting the cake.\nTo the reader’s delight, more animals start appearing and the violinist excitedly protects the cake through hilarious misadventure. (My favorite is when he says, “begone beavers!”)\nTwo funny things happen though:\n\nThe guy soon realizes that all these creatures are wedding guests.\nThe guy has such a big nose and he’s allergic to marshmallows, that when he’s offered some cake he sneezes and the cake goes flying.\n\n\n\n\ndodo on a cake\n\n\n\n\nMorale?\n\nWhen you praise someone for doing something good, they do it again and again. → There’s a natural hero inside all of us.\nBut only the first animal was a problem. The beavers were the chefs. So he ends up creating all these problems thinking they’re problems. → In tech, when you fix a bug you then think other things are bugs and go off fixing those too. No, just do the first. Then check in.\nThe irony is that, despite saving the cake, he sneezes and ruins the cake. → Despite all the effort, the greatest protection to the cake was him staying away from it. Sometimes by trying to solve a problem we can make things way worse and create all these problems. (Politics? Create problems by creating solutions to problems that need solutions.)\n\nDon’t mistake a beaver for a dodo. But don’t mistake a dodo for a wedding guest.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", - "title": "Data Beats Opinions", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", + "title": "Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore", "section": "", - "text": "When I co-started a company several years ago, my founders and I would canvass neighborhoods knocking doors. We’d discuss our ideas for a new product one door at a time. After each conversation, the product took a new form. Eventually, the product took shape and we had a successful kickstarter launch.\nSince that time, I’ve thought about how valuable it was to get information straight from the source.\nAlberto Savoia’s new book, “The Right It”, is re-teaching me this principle. Data beats opinions, he says. In another book I’m reading, “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments”, the former CEO of Netscape is quoted saying,\n\nIf we have data, let’s go with data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. - Jim Barksdale\n\nData sourced from your manager, your stakeholder, or your customer are invaluable to help you know if you’re solving their problem. Too often it’s easy to get stuck in the original solution that comes to our mind.\nData from customers directly shape the product. Data sourced at scale from online experiments refine it.\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. Frequently, it’s challenging to correlate the two. We’re left to guess why someone actually clicked, bought, churned. It’s a beautiful cycle.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Been here before, eh?\nI probably shouldn’t write this post considering I’ve also written posts “blogging with Jekyll”, “Blogdown”, and “distill” before. I’m flaky, what can I say. I’ve changed my blogging framework 7 times in 5 years (I started with blogger.com and Wordpress before Jekyll, and even used Medium for 25 posts.)\nBut it’s not my fault. There are too many static site generators and it seems that Rstudio is as flaky as me. Meaning, they built rmarkdown, created hugodown, blowdown, bookdown, and distill. Hugodown is a lightweight version of blogdown, and I never figured out why it exists. Then there’s workflowr and so many other great, random products out there.\nWhy quarto for me? It seems to have all the stuff that distill has, and then some. And given its design and collaboration with Wes McKinney (pandas guy) in building quarto, and given that Wes wrote his latest book with it, I think this will be here to stay for at least 5 years.\n\n\nWhy do I avoid Medium\nWhy don’t I blog with Medium? I wrote 25 posts there over 9 months and loved it. It makes writing and publishing incredibly easy, which is why I did it. With distill/blogdown the limiting factor was I’d have to be at my computer to get a post in. I love writing on my phone - I have over 2000 journal entries with Day One over seven years, several of which are “draft” posts for a blog that won’t see the light of day since I don’t care about them after I’ve written it. I want to be able to blog frequently, a short little blurb to keep up my writing, and medium enabled this.\nBut 1) I didn’t get many views (not that I care) and 2) my writing is stuck on their platform (confirmed to me this week as I’ve tried several old, broken tools that attempt to export posts out of medium).\nI got 50x the views on my blogdown site just from organic google searching. From reading other people’s posts about leaving Medium, it’s seems that most traffic to Medium posts comes from outside of Medium.\nSo while I’m certainly not into blogging for the money, I wouldn’t mind getting the content to people who it can help. And if medium didn’t enable this, what is its purpose?\nSo I’m back and finally decided that I’m going to own my own platform. Seth Godin wrote a blog about this topic once. Why be on Medium, substack, Facebook, etc or any other up an coming platform? We’ll they’re all skewed toward the 1% of people who make money on the platform. Everyone else is wasting their time. So might as well own your content. And better to focus on writing than waste time catching up on every platform.\nAlso, it’s fun! There’s a fuzzy feeling to blogging.\n\n\nFuture of quarto?\nI’m speculating here, but Quarto can be used withR Studio, Jupiter or VS Code. The last editor seems excitingly suspicious.\nPerhaps R Studio sees the writing on the wall that VS Code is taking over the IDE world and perhaps taking over the long term future of R Studio IDE. I personally don’t see why anyone would pay for R Studio when VS Code is free and has a better interface. And while R Studio has a few better integrations for R at the moment, it won’t once enough people see the light for VS Code and turn their contributions there. I’ve been using R on VSCode for two years now and it rivals R Studio in 95% of the feature set, but 100% has better window management.\nSo Quarto seems like a great opportunity for R Studio to begin monetizing on a publishing platform like R Studio connect. Platforms like Notion and Confluence are great for everyone except data scientists trying to share reproducible research. But a quarto server seems like a great way to finally bring in Python data scientists into the markdown-flavored documentation world. (Man, I personally can’t use Jupyter/Google colab notebooks when I can use R Markdown!) I’d heartedly welcome this prospect, though I have no idea what their plans for Quarto really are.\nTill next blog post about what blogging tool I’m going to use…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2016-11-07-starting-with-jekyll/starting-with-jekyll.html", - "href": "posts/2016-11-07-starting-with-jekyll/starting-with-jekyll.html", - "title": "Starting with Jekyll", + "objectID": "posts/write-a-thousand-songs.html", + "href": "posts/write-a-thousand-songs.html", + "title": "Write a thousand songs", "section": "", - "text": "Hello world.\nI wanted to start a blog. I wanted to set it up for free, use a custom URL (and not something.bloggingplatform.com), and be able to both blog and create tutorials. I didn’t mind it possibly being technical1. Enter Jekyll.\nIf you want to get your blog in 10 minutes, skip to below.\n\nWhy Blog with Jekyll?\nHere’s why you can and should blog with Jekyll (if you’re a data scientist):\n\nJekyll has beautiful, free, open-source templates.\nGitHub will host your website for free2.\nJekyll is static.\nJekyll can be simple to set up3.\nI tried Wordpress and blogger.com and got frustrated.\nThe blogging content you create is very portable (easy to take your posts from one blog site to another).\nCreating blogs in Markdown syntax is a dream (even for non-technical folks).\nYou can manage your blog from your terminal\nYou can manage your blog from your phone (if you have a GitHub-editing app)\n\nBut if you don’t like debugging occasional errors, you probably shouldn’t blog with Jekyll.\nWhat is Jekyll, you ask? Jekyll is an open-source blogging platform. Anyone can write a template and post it, and anyone else can use that template. Perusing Jekyllthemes.org, you can pick out any template you’d like.\n\n\nHow did I get started with Jekyll?\nAs a blogging noob, I’ve discovered there are hundreds of ways to generate a blog (e.g., WordPress, Squarespace, blogger.com, Weebly, etc.). But when my colleague Arthur Lui showed me his blog, I wanted something similar. I first tried Wordpress, then tried blogspot, then gave up and followed Arthur’s example and landed with Jekyll.\n\n\nSet up a blog in 10 minutes!\nI followed this Jekyll tutorial to set up my first blog. I’ll simplify those steps here to get you up and running quickly:\n\nGet a GitHub account. (2 min)\nGo to Jekyllthemes.org. All of these blog themes are free. Find one you like, and Fork the repo (i.e., “repository”). (2-60 min, depending on how long you peruse)\nIn GitHub, rename the newly-forked repo from “REPO name” to “yourgithubusername.github.io”. (1 min)\nNow go to “githubusername.github.io”. Voila, you have a blog.\n\nAnd if you want to start writing posts, go to your “_posts” folder. Then create new files and follow the default templates that the repository provides. (The blogs will need to be written in Markdown syntax.)\nThat was my 10 minute promise. If you feel a bit cheated or lost, go to the well-done tutorial and do all the steps. But the steps I listed are the essential steps to setting up a blog from scratch. So if you want to make a few blogs really quickly, after you figure out the first one the others follow nicely. For example, once I finished the tutorial, I followed those steps above to try two other themes before deciding on the Centrarium theme.\nTo get Centrarium to work, I did have to change some configurations in the “_config.yml”, so there can be some minor debugging depending on the theme you choose. But with a little patience and some Googling, you’ll get it.\n\n\nAdd to Jekyll a custom URL from GoDaddy\nYou’ll notice I have a custom URL and not “bryanwhiting.github.io”. I used GoDaddy to get a domain. (I have no affiliation with GoDaddy.) Here’s how I linked GoDaddy with my GitHub Jekyll blog:\n\nGet a domain.\nIn your Github repo, change (or create) a CNAME file in the main directory. (See my CNAME file for an example). And for the CNAME file contents, just type in the new “www” that you registered through GoDaddy.\nThen, on GoDaddy, go to the section “DNS Management”. Here’s where you tell GoDaddy how to connect your newly purchased “www” with GitHub. Create the following connections:\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [A, @, 192.30.252.153, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [A, @, 192.30.252.154, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [CNAME, ftp, yourgithubusername.github.io, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [CNAME, www, yourgithubusername.github.io, 600 seconds]\n\nIf you have the CNAME file in your GitHub folder, GitHub and GoDaddy will talk and after a few minutes your custom “www” will work. You don’t technically need the two [A] steps, but those connections allow users to type “bryanwhiting.com” instead of “www.bryanwhiting.com”. It can take up to 24 hours before these [A] connections enable, so don’t be worried if the short URL doesn’t work first try. But the full URL should work soon enough.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecifically, I was interested in being able to use the command line for my posts. Additionally, I didn’t mind seeing or using a little bit of code.↩︎\nSomeone has to host it (i.e., store and display all the files). I started off trying to set up a WordPress blog, but you have to pay another company to host. I didn’t want to bother.↩︎\nIf you try to set it up by following the instructions on jekyllrb.com, that’s the complicated way. That’s how I originally started, got lost for five hours, and stopped. Six months later, I found a better way.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I listened to an interview with Imagine Dragons. The lead singer talked about how he writes several songs per day.\nNo wonder he’s so successful. Repetitions breeds opportunity.\nThis has two affects on the brain. 1) lowers the pressure of individual songs. Don’t need to knock it of the park. 2) you get better at writing that much faster.\nI heard once about a photography that let one half of the students only take 5 photos in a semester. The other half had to take 100. Which group had the better photos?\n\nYou miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky Michael Scott\n\n\n\n\nMore shots is more opportunities for a goal. Worry about good shots later.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Could I build a model as good as theirs?\nI built a few models and put up a site. Below I have a table of accuracies for each of my models compared to FoveThirtyEight’s.\n\nWhat I learned is that Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight three models are only 66% accurate. In 20 hours I got a model as accurate (V02 above) as his using just team level data (win %, recent win streak, etc.) and no player data (injuries, etc.). Also my model was built using data from 2005-2017 to predict 2019 performance. His model was updated daily with recent stats.\nBut even more glaring is that if I made a prediction on a single feature (Home % > Away %) I could achieve 63.7% accuracy. This feature is a 1 if the home teams win % is greater than the away teams win %, 0 otherwise. Meaning, the home team wins 63.7% of the time their season win % is higher than the away teams season win %.\nWas it worth building an XGBoost model with 30 features to get 65.8% accuracy when just a simple calculation is 63.7% accurate? Depends on business context and how valuable that 2% gain is and what the development/engineering cost of deploying a model is. But if I were you I’d start with the simple model to get it into production to start generating value and then come back later to optimize.\nCaveat: it took a lot of work to discover that feature. 90% of the problem was building the data set. So at the end, building a model was pretty simple once I had the data. (This is where cloud AutoML will take over going forward, sorry!.) And I needed the model to see the feature importance (this was the top feature.) This is a valid data science approach: use modeling to discover the patterns. But just because you have a model doesn’t mean it’s worth deploying.\nKeep it business focused: when building a recommendation system, start with “what’s most popular”. Why would you need K-means or whatever to begin? And can’t you build your own K-means by creating heuristic filters? For example: if you want to recommend me a shirt based on shirts I’ve searched, you can find all shirts of same color, price, and size and recommend those. Building a model to take into account dimensions, patterns, what others buy, etc is fine but should be a V2.\n\n\nMindsets\nThere’s a temptation to act like an academic professor and use fancy jargon when working with your coworkers. Even worse, there’s a temptation to think you’re smarter than your coworkers because you know this mathy thing that they don’t. But remember this quote:\n\nWhen they are learned they think they are wise…1\n\nThis pride power struggle is your downfall for two reasons:\n\nIt blinds you to thinking your solution is good just because someone else can’t understand it.\nIt blinds you from focusing on what matters most: getting the simplest and best solution.\n\nYour coworkers aren’t your students eating you. They’re your smart coworkers solving the same problems you are.\nA better mindset is that of a professional athlete, like a football player. They might be dumb as bricks at times but they’re all incredibly smart players. Can you explain your technical solution like a pro football player would?\n\nBad: “I built an XGBoost classification model that reduces the RMSE by minimizing the Gini coefficient on each node…”\n\nBetter: “I noticed that most users close the app after they reach this page. I tried looking at some reasons why and found a few common behaviors (DISCUSS, get feedback). I think we can predict when this will happen and here’s a framework to do that.”\n\nThere’s a temptation to think “I did all this technical work, I should get credit for it!” My manager once coached me, “Your stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.”\nThe best example I know of this is Chris Voss, an FBI negotiator. Listen to his podcasts or YouTubes. He’s a humble guy and doesn’t get into the technical stuff. He knows the principles and keeps the explanations simple. He helps you feel smart when you listen to him. He’s one of the best negotiators in the world and if you were having dinner with him you’d think he was a normal guy. This is how data scientists should be.\n\n\nBugs\nThere are two types of bugs in data science: Software bugs and data bugs. You’ll spend 80% of your ramp up time on a project setting up your environment, learning the data, trying to understand the primary keys and logging and unique values, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNobody cares about how you do any of this (the same way you don’t care about how cereal ends up in your grocery store), but they do care that you do it because it shows that you’re thinking about the right things.\nThey’ll also worry that you’re spending too much time on the wrong thing, so make sure you believe your actions are solving a business purpose.\n\n\n\n\n\nTakeaways\n\nFocus on principles, not technical details.\nGet the simplest, useful solution into production first to start creating value. Then figure out if it’s worth optimizing. If your product gets deprecated in 3 months then the fancy model will be wasted time anyway.\nYour stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.\nIf you can’t explain a trend with a simple bar/line chart, a fancy regression model won’t do.\nStart with the non-technical (basic math) solution. Then see if you can beat the basic math with a fancy model. Evaluate the cost/benefit of the technical solution relative to the dumb version.\nwhen you have a fancy solution, make sure you compare it to the basic solution. Make sure you can beat the solution your teammates come up with. And make sure you carefully lead them from “their” solution to yours. “At first I tried X. X was fine. But X didn’t account for Y. So I built a model M and saw that M out performs X by 10%.”\nJust because you know/use math, doesn’t mean it’s right for the business. Data Scientists can easily be myopic because the work we do is challenging and deep in the weeds.\nYour boss doesn’t care about the nature of the bugs, but you should try to bring first principles to the table so she can cover for you. “I keep hitting this bug in the data. Can we ask/work with Infra team to solve this because it eats my time.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9:28↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "If you’re a bad author, your writing will only make sense to you.\nProblem is, we’re all bad authors.\n\nMy writing makes sense as I put it fown\nIt doesn’t always make sense to me 5 minutes later (my future self is practically another person)\nThe probability of it being perfectly interpreted by someone who isn’t even me, is likely near zero.\n\nSo when we write, we send out an idea. It then becomes a painting on the wall, up for anyone to interpret how they may.1 therefore, it’s best to put yourself as much in your audience’s shoes as possible (something discussed often in How to Win Friends and Influence People).\n\n\n\n“Now what on earth was Bryan trying to say?!?” “I think he was inspired” “nah man, he just wrote scribbles on the wall. That’s not writing!” “Yea, maybe he should slap a banana with duct tape on there. Would have gotten the point across better”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoing to an extreme - ever write a kind word that was taken as an insult, or sent something sarcastic and it was interpreted as literal?↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/the-thief-of-time.html", - "href": "creative/the-thief-of-time.html", - "title": "The Thief of Time", + "objectID": "creative/poem-timeless.html", + "href": "creative/poem-timeless.html", + "title": "Timeless", "section": "", - "text": "There are only two robbers of childhood: death and time.\nTime is a death in a way. A cessation of your four year old self. Of your 10 year old self. Of your ignorant self. Of your yesterday self.\nTime is constant, pushing us closer to one inevitable.\nTime is a gift, the only gift we all share while here on earth.\nWhat is the time constant? There’s a gravitational constant. A Planck constant. What about a time constant - the rate at which time ticks? At which our molecules age. At which our beings move from one state to another?\nI don’t think I’ll get the time to answer that…\n\n\n\nTime robbing time\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The days pass by like weeks.\nThe weeks pass by like days.\nThe sun continues to set\nin it's old, familiar way\n\n\nTime is an illusion,\nrestful nights, a delusion, \nmy state of mind, a confusion,\nBut still my kids want to play\n\n\n\nTime slips away, under our watchful eye\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/cuddles.html", - "href": "creative/cuddles.html", - "title": "Cuddles", + "objectID": "creative/poem-timeless.html#timeless", + "href": "creative/poem-timeless.html#timeless", + "title": "Timeless", "section": "", - "text": "Cuddles\n\n\n\nCuddled\nYou cuddle Cuddles,\nI cuddle you. \nAn inception of cuddles. \nLaps within laps. \nI squeeze cuddles\nand get you too.\nKid was sitting on my lap with a lovey in their lap.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The days pass by like weeks.\nThe weeks pass by like days.\nThe sun continues to set\nin it's old, familiar way\n\n\nTime is an illusion,\nrestful nights, a delusion, \nmy state of mind, a confusion,\nBut still my kids want to play\n\n\n\nTime slips away, under our watchful eye" }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.html", - "href": "creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.html", - "title": "The Dove (Forevermore)", + "objectID": "creative/poem-lint.html", + "href": "creative/poem-lint.html", + "title": "Lint", "section": "", - "text": "A twist on “The Raven”, from The Best of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe got it all wrong.\nIf you haven’t read “The Raven” recently, take a moment first to remember, remember that Raven of yore.\n\nThe Dove (Forevermore)\nA twist on “The Raven” by Bryan Whiting\nThree A.M., I hear you wrapping.\nDesitin, I keep slapping.\nDiapers fresh, for poop, post napping.\nDiapers fresh, for my Adore.\n\nIt was a cold and bleak December.\nDark and dreary, I remember.\nSleepless nights and occasional frights, \nI'd forgotten the parent's implore:\n please protect my Sweet Adore \n\nNothing strange, just parents living.\nBabies growing, always swimming\nthrough the tides of life they're dipping, \n dripping, \n tripping, slick socks \n slipping \n lovey, pants, they all keep ripping \n\"Will it stop?\", my mind is tipping\nI love them so, my Adore. \nBut I just ask rest, I implore. \nWill I get it? \n \"Nevermore.\" \n\nWhat's that I hear, is something slapping? \nNo! by Jove! A creature crapping! \nCrapping on my kitchen floor!! \nRight next to the. bathroom..door...\nI just cannot believe for sure.\nNot another chore.\nI just mopped there, I can assure.\nI feel denial swelling more.\n That creature must be \n her \n Adore. \n\nThen in Jan the rain starts stalling. \nOn my chest, her eyes are falling, \nNapping, cooing, smiling, fawning,\nMy bedroom window, in Jan is calling\nCalling in a creature, sure.\n\n\"What's this?\" I wonder, as I slumber.\nIs it just me, or am I dumber? \nIs that a bird?! What's that number? \n\"Animal control!\" I now thunder,\n\"For the dove! Not one mess more!!\"\n\"Begone, you bird!\" I implore!\nIt cocks its head, \n \"Nevermore.\"\n\nSomething changed, as I remember,\nafter that, cold, bleak December.\nThe sleep rolled in, and so I weather,\n weather just a little bit more.\n\nThe baby's coos I now see freshly.\nThe piqued smiles now enmesh me.\nThe drools of milk now refresh me.\n\"Refresh me, my Adore.\"\nHow could I ever\n have seen anything more?\n Please don't let it end, I implore.\nThe dove then whispers, \n \"Evermore.\"\n\nThe children calling, wailing, falling\nat my feet, screaming, brawling,\nincessant thumping, pounding, hounding,\n is pleasant to my ears once more.\nPleasant because they're my Adore.\n\nI see it now, that bright December.\nIt wasn't dark, I now remember.\nJust a dog, a fog, but nothing more. \nBut now it's gone, and nevermore.\nI took photos, Polaroids, sure.\nBut now it's gone. \n And I want more. \n\nRemembered now are the cuddles.\nLong forgotten: spilled milk puddles.\nSpilled milk puddles are \n nevermore. \n\nDays asleep and nights awake.\nDream eyes open, for goodness sake.\nWhat I wouldn't give to take\nanother look at my Make.\nAnother look at \n my \n Adore.\n\nWhen I could hold her, and nothing more. \nWhen in my hands, and on the floor\nwe cuddle, huddle, muddle more.\n\"Bring it back\", I implore\n\"Turn back time\", I plead pure.\n\nThen entered in that dove once more, \nthe welcomed bird, the dove of yore.\n\"The past is gone, time pressed its seal.\nBut yours to keep, for it is real\npast and present, space time is traveled\nIn eternity, your gift unravels\n Forevermore.\"\nThe tides of parenting are just phases. The good, the bad, the guilt, the love, the denial you even have kids to the overwhelming joy you could never express adequately in words…it all comes and goes - sometimes within the same hour.\nThen suddenly we realize it’s all gone before we can blink.\nThe newborn is now walking at my feet. The eighteeen-month-old-diaper-generator is now riding his bike. The four-year-old brother slapper is now six and creating “Daddy, I love you” cards. Thankfully families are forevermore.\n(Mostly) written 5:02am on Jan 5, 2024, after a sweet midnight feeding, where she cooed and smiled right before passing out peacefully on my chest.\n\n\n\nMessy rooms, a memory forevermore\n\n\nOther lines…\nPints of puke are never more\nOnce held lovey is now a bore\nonce scraped knees now never sore\ngoing to the park now a chore\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Lint between your fingers\nLint between your toes\nWhere does it comes from?\nOnly the windtraps know\n\nYou clench it like a prized possession\nIts presence makes you my obsession\n\n\n\nCute toes\n\n\nSeriously, it’s like a windtrap of Arrakis (Dune). 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Okay, last try:\nWhat if you all were sleeping in a moving object?\nGoing 700mph?\nAnd everyone is suspended at 30,000 feet?\nYea, you’d like that? You’d pay a lot of money for that experience? Wow.\nWell, I guess everybody has their limit.\n\n\n\nEyeballs\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Lint between your fingers\nLint between your toes\nWhere does it comes from?\nOnly the windtraps know\n\nYou clench it like a prized possession\nIts presence makes you my obsession\n\n\n\nCute toes\n\n\nSeriously, it’s like a windtrap of Arrakis (Dune). Just appears." }, { - "objectID": "goals.html", - "href": "goals.html", - "title": "Goals", + "objectID": "creative/poem-slow-blink.html", + "href": "creative/poem-slow-blink.html", + "title": "Slow Blink", "section": "", - "text": "Public accountability is the greatest motivator.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese goals are correlated with, but not causal to happiness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThey’re anti-sad, but pro-happy comes not from checking off boxes but by building meaningful relationships with God, self, family, and friends.\nWhy do I measure? Because whenever things aren’t going well I often attribute it to a lacking of one of these things. But I don’t keep this checkbox list to make me happy. Happiness is perspective and relationships. Purpose. So why this list? Well, they’re the foundation of a guided, structured, and prosperous life.\n\nStudying scriptures and praying teaches me who I am and what my purpose is here on earth. It also gives me perfect role models to follow (Christ’s example in the scriptures, and God’s influence on me during prayer). What better way to guide your rudder (as Christensen says), than to be influenced by God on a daily basis. They say you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Why not make the number 1 person you spend your most valuable time to be God? (I don’t have to spend 5 hours. 5 very meaningful minutes can correct my day.)\nWriting about my study is my little attempt to share God’s light with the world. Imagine what social media would look like if everyone shared an insight from Marcus Aurelius, Buddha, Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammad, on a daily basis and how that insight affected their perspective? Be the change you want to see in the world, they say.\nWriting gratitude rewires my brain. It causes me to see things I wouldn’t. Why not just say things I’m grateful for during prayer or a gratitude journal? I dunno. Those things don’t help me for some reason. It always feels forced (I’ve tried it dozens of ways). Somehow, writing in public, gives me a great sense of “I mean it.” Helps me think about that thing. Give it real thought.\nPhysical health. Strength helps my bones. The effects of weight lifting are seen over decades, not months. I need to take better care of my bones. Same with cardio. They both energize today, but they prevent a whole host of bad things tomorrow and beyond. The effects are compounding - in both directions. Physical health also drives me to eat better. Eating better doesn’t cause me to exercise, but exercising caueses me to eat better. Less snacks.\nMeditating helps me train my mind. It’s a moment where I think about something I want to improve on. Less reactivity as a dad to kids misbehaving. More optimism. More appreciation for the body I have, the health I enjoy, the freedom I have in this world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024 Goals: Read, hike, pray, meditate, workout, give thanks daily, study scripture daily\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObjective\n\nDeepen my relationship with and connection to God, self, family, and friends.\nEnjoy intellectual growth and historical understanding\nHave fun.\n\n\n\nKPIs\nReading:\n\n52 books. 12 fiction. 12 biographies. 12 business/self help. 4 religious. And 12 free choice (history, philosophy, career/data-ai). See Reading List.\n\nDaily Habits:\n\nPray\nMeditate\nWorkout (strength and cardio)\nGive thanks (write a post)\nStudy scriptures (write a post)\n\nWeekly Habits: Family Home Evening with my kids (Come Follow Me study + activity)\nMonthly: Date night.\nQuarterly: Attend the temple - a religious building (separate from church).\nFun:\n\n52 hikes (1x/wk)\nCall a friend\n4 weekend trips/vacations to new destinations and parks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHabitsRecords\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 1: Goals\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaily Habits\n\n\n\n☀️\n💧\n📖\n🙏🏻\n🚴🏻\n🏋🏼‍♂️\n🧘🏼‍♂️\n🛐\n🔗\n\n\n\n\nFri 2/2\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nThu 2/1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nWed 1/31\n1\n0\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n\n\nTue 1/30\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nMon 1/29\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nSun 1/28\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n0\n0\n\n\nSat 1/27\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nFri 1/26\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nThu 1/25\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nWed 1/24\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n0\n0\n\n\nTue 1/23\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nMon 1/22\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n\n\nSun 1/21\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n1\n0\n\n\nSat 1/20\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n\n\nFri 1/19\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n1\n\n\n\n📖: Study, 🙏🏻: Gratitude, 🛐: Pray, 🚴🏻‍♂️: Cardio, 🏋🏼‍♂️: Strength, 🧘🏼‍♂️: Meditate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 2: Recent streak\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBike Records\n\n\nTime\nKJ\nAvg W\nDay\nNotes\n90%\n80%\n70%\n\n\n\n\n10\n156\n260\n2024-01-20\nAbout 1pm workout. No lunch. Just hopped on and immediately shot for 240 avg. stayed there for 5, doing about 73%, then last 5 min pushed it more.\n140.4KJ (234avg)\n124.8KJ (208avg)\n109.2KJ (182avg)\n\n\n15\n216\n240\n2024-01-27\nNA\n194.4KJ (216avg)\n172.8KJ (192avg)\n151.2KJ (168avg)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 3: Peloton Records\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nDate\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n2024-02-02\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n2024-02-01\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-31\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 30, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-30\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-29\n\n\nTabata. Pushups, crunches, squats, lower back raises. 45s on, 30s rest.\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-28\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 27, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-27\n\n\nPelo 20. Bench. Kettlebells, triceps.\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-26\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-25\n\n\n10m Tabata bodyweight. Push-up, sit-up, body squat, lower leg. 45on, 30s rest, 1m round rest.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-24\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-23\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-22\n\n\n15m pelo zone 2. Triceps at 20lb+5-way shoulders super at 8lb. Shrugs + calves 20 at 60 and 50lbs\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-21\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-20\n\n\n10m pelo 156kj. Bench-65x5,67x5,70x 6. Nothing else.\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-19\n\n\nTabata. Pushups, crunches, squats, lower back raises. 45s on, 30s rest.\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 18, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-18\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-17\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-16\n\n\nBike 15. Kettle bell. Drop ser.\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 15, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-15\n\n\nJump rope. Bench. 60,65,67.5. Arms.\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-14\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-13\n\n\n2 min workout in room. Pushups then lower back lifts. 20 of each, 2 sets. L\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-12\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\ngoals\n\n\nPelo 200avg for a few min, then get up to 230avg by 5 min. Superset of DB bench at 50, 60, 60 with leg raises of 10 on last two\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\nGoals\n\n\n10m bike 210avg. 3x superset of calves+shrugs and dbdlift 50lbs both. About 8-10 reps each.\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\nWorkout\n\n\nTwo Tabatas. First was kettlebell, then pushups then sit ups. Two rounds. Second Tabata was rows and biceps. Three rounds.\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\nBody: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata\n\n\n60s sit-up, 60s pushup, 60s squat. 2 sets. 30s rest in between. Replaced squats with squat jumps. Didn’t rest. Stayed in plank, down squat, or descending sit-up position.\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 13, 2000\n\n\ntest\n\n\n2 min workout in room. Pushups then lower back lifts. 20 of each, 2 sets. L\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", - "crumbs": [ - "Other", - "Goals" - ] + "text": "Slow Blink\nSlow blink\n\"What do you think?\"\nNot much. \nJust got here. \nWhat's that?\n\"Are you looking at the cabinet handle?\"\nYea. What is it.\nWhy is it?\nWhere am I?\nMy eyes are doing this thing.\nOh, hi there, orbital cavity. Thought I'd..\n\"Awww, slow blink...\"\nCabinet Handle\n\n\n\nSlow blink\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "news/ai-news-01.html", - "href": "news/ai-news-01.html", - "title": "AI News Recap", + "objectID": "creative/poem-bound.html", + "href": "creative/poem-bound.html", + "title": "Bound", "section": "", - "text": "Token 1.17: Deploying ML Model: Best practices feat. LLMs - Companies will have a question of what models to use: cloud based, cloud open, or internal open. - GPT: closed cloud. - Llama: open internal. - Perplexity/Mistral hosting: open cloud. - my Assumption is that open cloud will catch up. Especially when they match it with vector embeddings. No provider does both embeddings and inference as a service, which is interesting. - Thoughts on vector DBs Reddit - Dive into anything - Seems cool: Lightning AI, which allows you to do like a repl type solution but for AI. Curious how good the editor is.\nThe Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation - by Ethan Mollick - waiting for tech to be competent to achieve your vision or hop on the train? - I think software will catch up quickly. Our ability to get to a solution faster means faster prototyping, pickier customers, but ultimately more junk. The question of product market fit will always be the question, regardless if you wait. But some ideas may be worth trying a year from now rather than doing all this stuff that will be obsolete with the next AI release. - This blog itself wouldn’t be possible without Obsidian Mobile, free GitHub repos, Working Copy App, and quarto and iOS shortcuts. so the technologies need to converge to enable certain innovations (in this case my peculiar system for how to blog online from my phone)\n\n\n\nDreaming of cloud solutions\n\n\nGPTs won’t make you rich - by Charlie Guo - GPTs are now available. The Teams pricing is now available.\nWhy knowledge management is foundational to AI success - Stack Overflow - Generic old news. General principles that garbage in, garbage out.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Bound\nMy finger\nYour hand\nOnce divided\nUnited we stand\n\nEver bound\nYour biology compels it\nCooing sound\nA union I won't quit\n\n\n\nUnion\n\n\nThe baby doesn’t let go. Their grip on anything (even Lint) is locked in. Only I can let go, which is a powerful idea. She’s bound to me, trustfully so.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "news/2024-01-23-news-notes.html", - "href": "news/2024-01-23-news-notes.html", - "title": "News Notes for 2024-01-23", + "objectID": "creative/poem-cabinet-handle.html", + "href": "creative/poem-cabinet-handle.html", + "title": "Cabinet Handle", "section": "", - "text": "AI\nTesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving | Electrek - 300k rules based system down to a model - you’ll need both: a model and overrides. - Or, you train the model by learning from the scenarios encoded in your 300k rules engine (like DeepMind’s AlphaGo)\nFast Tracking RAG Model Evaluation with Synthetic Data - synthetic data to evaluate RAG responses? - A response is non-deterministic, random - Perhaps do a Levenshtein distance of sorts to evaluate of response is as good as you want? - But isn’t this the same as question-answer pairs and instruction tuning?\nAuto Wiki by Mutable.ai - this proves how powerful AI is. Just add data and watch it churn. - An example of an AI product.\n\n\nCoding\nPython Does Not Fully Deliver OOP Encapsulation Functionalities - I learned how attributes are names in a Python class. As an R programmer, most of these things were never taught to me in school, and I’ve never really needed to know them (until working with software engineers)\n\n\nProduct\nHow Gong builds product - by Lenny Rachitsky - the planning!! > We do not plan monthly or biweekly. Both the engineering leader and I dislike the Scrum methodology. We feel it’s trying to drive urgency via artificial deadlines versus via value to the customer. And by forcing “commitment” to deliverables within a time window, it essentially inhibits on-the-fly trade-offs between content, quality, and timelines. Yet we have internal reviews with the different groups on a monthly basis.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Hey you, over there\nBlack and shiny, half a square\nMind if I sit and stare?\nAs I rock in my chair?\n\nDo you come here often?\nOr is it just me? I sit here rockin.\nEither way, my heart softens\nYou've got me smiling and I don't care\n\n\n\nClearly, there is value in staring at a cabinet handle. Why can’t adults see it?\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/dreaming-software.html", - "href": "tech/dreaming-software.html", - "title": "The Dream State of Software", + "objectID": "creative/poem-cabinet-handle.html#the-cabinet-handle", + "href": "creative/poem-cabinet-handle.html#the-cabinet-handle", + "title": "Cabinet Handle", "section": "", - "text": "Dreaming code working is ever coders dream\n\n\nI returned from vacation yesterday and tried running my code. It didn’t work. I looked at code I had written, it had my imports correctly and all - why wasn’t it running?\nThe file it was importing didn’t exist.\nI thought I created that. I swear I made it. My coworker remarked, “oh so you set up all the scafffolding but didn’t write the actual code?” I was in disbelief. maybe it was deleted by accident or stashed on another branch. But the git log shows all: the imported file never existed.\nIn Dune, Paul Atriedes has many visions and the author uses this feature to skip the book ahead three years. Paul wakes up one morning and doesn’t know what’s past or future. It’s all one in his mind.\nSo it is with software. It gets created in the mind near instantly. Coding is a burden, the journey of many failures and design choices to enable the simple vision of the mind.\nPerhaps Gen AI can help us dream software faster. I look forward to when my dreams are realities, and not the rude awakening I still have coding to do.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Hey you, over there\nBlack and shiny, half a square\nMind if I sit and stare?\nAs I rock in my chair?\n\nDo you come here often?\nOr is it just me? I sit here rockin.\nEither way, my heart softens\nYou've got me smiling and I don't care\n\n\n\nClearly, there is value in staring at a cabinet handle. Why can’t adults see it?" }, { - "objectID": "tech/beam-ai.html", - "href": "tech/beam-ai.html", - "title": "Beam AI", + "objectID": "creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.html", + "href": "creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.html", + "title": "Stairwell scoop", "section": "", - "text": "description\nRuns GPT locally, has tons of templates, can interact with your screen. Run ChatGPT plus locally.\nI have not used it. Just thought it’s cool. # commentary I don’t see why Open AI can’t build something like this, but they’re focused on much higher value problems such as solving enterprise hunger.\nSo we’ll see niche tools like this that pop up and solve the needs of a few - satisfying the developer costs of some indie programmers. thinking of Innovators Dilemma, there’s just not enough juice in this lemon for Open AI to squeeze, but plenty for a small fish.\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The Stairwell Scoop\nLeft hand: hotwheel\nRight hand: Thomas book\nIn front of me: Mt Everest. \nObjective: descend. \nDifficulty with hands occupied: impossible\nExpectation: ride on a Sherpa \nRequest: grunt. \"Ehhh!!\" Paired with helpless eyes and full hands. Eyes that sag with \"what am I supposed to do?\"\nObservation: dad approaches. Request accepted. \nEngagement: giant left arm behind my right hip. Diaper fully supported. Knees open, then latch like a Koala onto love handles. Maintain proper tension between knees and toes. \nPayment to Sherpa: a kind coo and pleasant, soft smile, like I own him. \nResponse: more cuddles. I do own him. Probability of next successful Sherpa request: 97%. Probability heightens if I scuttle away fast at the bottom of Everest, shaking my hips. \n\n\n\nThe plea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.html", - "href": "tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.html", - "title": "The future wave of AI hype", + "objectID": "posts.html", + "href": "posts.html", + "title": "Posts", "section": "", - "text": "Reading about Airplane’s failure per OnlyCFO. A few notable quotes:\n\nAirplane’s shutdown and future shutdowns like this will have negative consequences for many early stage companies. For many years buyers of these tools haven’t had to deal with a tool being abruptly killed. It only takes this happening once for you to really second guess purchasing a startup tool that is mission critical, deeply integrated, or would take a long time to replace.\n\nAlso:\n\n\n\nCarta showing shutdowns\n\n\nThis chart is misleading for a few reasons:\n\nWhat’s the denominator?\nWhat’s the denominator…\nDenomi…\n\nAs Carta grows, their user base grows, their churn rate grows.\nI’m also concerned for Carta’s investors. If they’ve got this many churning users, I’d really like to know the denominator.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday December 25, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 16, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 15, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 6, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday November 12, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday July 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday July 3, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday June 25, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday June 22, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday June 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday July 17, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 19, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 16, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday July 2, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday February 19, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday February 18, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 10, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday November 17, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Goal: To spend less time consuming more, more time consuming intentionally.\nMostly incoherent bullet points of thought provoking moments.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\nclassics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nErnest Hemingway\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nJacob Ward\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\nRobert Cialdini\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nWilliam Esterly\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHis story.\n\n\n\nMatthew McConaughey\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\napocalyptic\n\n\nfiction\n\n\ndystopian\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\nHugh Howey\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\npsychology\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neducation\n\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\nGreg Lukianoff\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\nDale Carnegie\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nAdam Smith\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nHumphrey Carpenter\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he…\n\n\n\nThomas Sowell\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth…\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday December 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday December 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday December 22, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday December 18, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday June 24, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nSaturday April 30, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Charles Duhigg\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday May 3, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "crumbs": [ + "Writing", + "Book Reviews" + ] }, { - "objectID": "tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.html", - "href": "tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.html", - "title": "A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media", + "objectID": "news/2024-01-19-news-notes.html", + "href": "news/2024-01-19-news-notes.html", + "title": "News Notes for 2024-01-19", "section": "", - "text": "Tim Ferris describes why he doesn’t have social media on his phone:\n\nI recently deleted social media from my phone 14 days ago. I had been using Instagram until April when I quit and Twitter all year. I realized within days how much better I felt without social media. Happier. Legitimately happier.\nAnd why? What do I get out of it? I’m not growing closer to friends. That’s what texting and calling and spending time in person does. But I’d argue even texting doesn’t really strengthen a relationship because it’s so hard to properly interpret emotions and cues via text: you interpret them how you read those texts. You interpret it according to your emotional state, not the sender’s.\nPhone provides vocal emotional cues. Body language another set of emotional cues. I can get probably 70% of this out from FaceTime or Zoom. But being in person is what we’re meant for.\nThis is why we strengthen relationships locally, and fail to continue ones from high school or our previous job.\nSo what was I doing on social media? Watching clips of either strangers I don’t care about or college associates I friended (once lived locally with) that I no longer talk to.\nSo what’s the knife you’re bringing to the gun fight? When at YouTube I heard the CEO praise a team for increasing “seconds watched” by 15% by reducing the lag of the swipes between YouTube shorts (TikTok clone). The lag reduction was in the milliseconds. Your attention is being bought and manipulated by the shareholders of these companies.\n\n\n\nYes, they’re targeting specifically you. You don’t stand a chance. And you have a pocket knife, and you’re 50 feet away. Who’s gonna win?\n\n\nThey A/B test everything. This isn’t morally wrong. It’s actually quite human: we all A/B test everything every day. A joke here. A smile there. We put out feelers and see if we get a reaction. Don’t believe me? Ask my kid why he keeps throwing things in the toilet!\nBillions of dollars and the brightest minds on earth are working at FAANG. Why? They need to provide for their families and academics doesn’t pay. Non-profits don’t pay. This isn’t immoral, it just is. There are very good people working there: honest, moral people. Some of the best I’ve seen in the industry. But when you get paid to maximize swipes, you maximize swipes. It’s just human nature. And some of them buy into the odd notions of “snackable content”, as if swiping for 30 minutes while on the toilet is what anyone wakes up excited to do. Keep on snacking…\nSocial media and Netflix provide a ton of value to the world in my opinion. I can use them to call anyone I want, raise money for a cause, or get likes on a cute pic of my cat (I don’t have a cat). I do see the value.\nBut the costs for me have outweighed the value.\nI do miss laughing about some random Reel. There’s nothing that can get you laughing faster than a 10 second clip paired with the right cuts and music and everything. The right meme just nails it in a way nothing else can. I miss seeing memes from my friends. But when all I do is send memes to these friends, is that a friendship?\nSince being off social media I feel like my senses have grown. I now find my kids a lot funnier, my wife funnier, and I’m able to make heavy situations lighter much easier.\nThere’s a quote in Dune that’s something like “If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken”. I’d argue my other relationships weakened too. Time to leave the fight. I was losing.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Social media platforms make $11B in ad revenue from U.S. teens — Harvard Gazette\n\nkids have always been targeted though. Don’t tell me the disease ridden McPlay place with its sad meals isn’t to blame too.\nAfter reading The Quest for Cosmic Justice I’ve considered how negative regulation can be. Let’s thought experiment: stop advertising to kids. Well then why not stop advertising to people of any other demographic? Old people are vulnerable too right? Okay so then let’s have free market. Advertise to anyone - okay let’s enable smoking ads again for kids. No that’s not good.\n\n\nYouTube derived the greatest ad revenue from users 12 and under ($959.1 million), followed by Instagram ($801.1 million) and Facebook ($137.2 million). Instagram derived the greatest ad revenue from users ages 13-17 ($4 billion), followed by TikTok ($2 billion) and YouTube ($1.2 billion). The researchers also calculated that Snapchat derived the greatest share of its overall 2022 ad revenue from users under 18 (41 percent), followed by TikTok (35 percent), YouTube (27 percent), and Instagram (16 percent).\n\nOpenAI announces first partnership with a university - education is going to be greatly commoditized. - Academic researchers can enjoy researching again instead of teaching (what some of them are horrid at) - I took an accounting class where half was online, half in person. This will be the future for all classes, but probably 10% in person. - The value of the professor will be in office hours.\nMeta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence - The Verge\n\nWe’re used to there being pretty intense talent wars,” he says. “But there are different dynamics here with multiple companies going for the same profile, [and] a lot of VCs and folks throwing money at different projects, making it easy for people to start different things externally.\n\n\nBig tech has the compute resources to develop AGi\nMultiple AGI competition will increase security, lower cost.\nWe’ll all have access eventually to open source AGI. And the same bad guys that have access will be countered by the good guys who have access. Just like today.\n\nGitHub - FlagOpen/TACO - It’s good to have benchmarks everyone can rely on. Hopefully they don’t leak into the training data.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.html", - "href": "tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.html", - "title": "AI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.", + "objectID": "news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.html", + "href": "news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.html", + "title": "AI and the Future of SaaS", "section": "", - "text": "I recently got back into writing some poems. The Dove (Forevermore) was fun to write. After the fact, I tried getting ChatGPT to create something similar. I only tried once before declaring victory.\nWhy is this poem meaningful to me? Because it has my soul in it. It’s the summation of my experience as a parent. Should you find it interesting, perhaps that’s why.\nReading The Best of Edgar Allen Poe recently I’m amazed (besides how depressing he is) at how excellent a writer he is. He peers into the mind and soul and extricates anything interesting. It’s interesting because a human wrote it.\nDo we still paint, even if a camera can take a picture? Do we still ride bikes and horses even with cars and things? Do we still read even though we have TV and movies?\nWords. Creative expression. They will always be interesting to us. Humans are interesting to us. Stories. Social acceptance is a fundamental human need. We desire connection. We’ll like reading something because a human wrote it.\nBut what about that guy I heard about who makes a ton of money using ChatGPT to create fake digital books on Amazon. People don’t know it’s AI-written. Digital GenAI images now are insanely accurate - it’s only 2024. It’s very possible great AI art will inspire us more than non-AI art (whatever that means because everyone uses photoshop anyway).\nI’m not saying we won’t find value in AI art (creative writing, digital, video, etc.). We will. It’s clear we’ll have a really hard time knowing what’s human vs not.\nBut I am saying that creativity will never disappear. We’re always going to be interested in creating - even if machines can do it better. Machines can beat us at Go and StarCraft (AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans), but we’ll still play. Because what else will there be to do?\n\n\n\nI guess I’ll pick up painting now…\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Reading this:\n\nAnd that’s what AI should always be. A feature of your product, not your product itself. AI can be an interface to your users’ data or a means of transforming that data into shapes that are more useful to your users.\n\nChatGPT will likely never build a todo list app that manages sending you notifications, etc. (Not until they have their own OS at least).\nFocus on building AI-augmented experiences.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.html", - "href": "tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.html", - "title": "What startups and musicians have in common", + "objectID": "tech/private-gpt.html", + "href": "tech/private-gpt.html", + "title": "Private GPT", "section": "", - "text": "I was reminded of a video I watched a while back on YouTube. It was a great documentary about these new artists and their debate about whether to sign a record label (there’s a recent trend to selling music as an independent artist).\n\n\n\nPutting pen to ink\n\n\nI forget all the details, but there are some roughly insane trends that are generally interesting as I recall:\n\nnew record labels are for $500k give or take. This is so the artist can invest a year into their music and get an album out, pay for production, etc.\nmany artists at that early stage aren’t financially literate and end up wasting the (they’re musicians, not bankers)\nSome have to pay back the money\nUp to 85% of the streaming royalties are owed to the label (started when streaming became a thing)\nLabels also take a large portion of touring revenues now (something that wasn’t common 10 years ago)\n\nWhy is this similar to tech startups? Lots.\nMusicians have to find product market fit. They need to find their customers. Their monthly listeners.\nThey need to keep them coming back.\nThey need to differentiate.\nThose who are customer focused and build a following are those who succeed. (Money in the bank and relying too much on the label can cripple you)\n\nThe Musicians in Town\nI remember hanging out with some new artists while I was running my startup (we both used the same videographer). I couldn’t help but notice how similar the dynamics were. The founders. The first hires (replacements). The convos about who gets what. It’s all very fascinating.\nNot much else to say.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Private GPT\nPrivateGPT\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\nChat with your notes.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.html", - "title": "Porous Bread", + "objectID": "tech/the-matrix.html", + "href": "tech/the-matrix.html", + "title": "The Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction", "section": "", - "text": "Symbol\nBread is porous.\n\nIn the sacrament, the bread (flesh) is first broken, then the water (blood) is administered.\nBlood follows broken flesh. Blood flowed through the broken flesh. The pores of the flesh.\n\nBread, being porous, is also absorbent. → He absorbed our problems. He internalized them inside His flesh to the point that his own blood didn’t have space internally anymore and exited through the pores.\n\n\n\nThe pores in bread remind me of the pores that let blood for me\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Scriptures\n\nAnd lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people. Mosiah 3.7\n\n\n\nMeaning\nThe Savior suffered an enormous amount. Even the thought of imagining blood coming out of my pores evokes thoughts of feeling so much physically overwhelming internal pressure or emotional agony that it would make a human body explode.\nI can remember this when I pray. I can feel heard because He not only felt what I feel today, but he knows the future me, the past me, and the past/present/future everyone else. When I pray, I’m not approaching a distant God. I’m approaching the one that understands humanity better than any human possibly could. Someone that understands me more than I’ll ever understand myself. Someone who’s been there.\nWhen I pray, I don’t have to give pretenses, because “your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” (Matthew 6.8)\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?” - Dark Blue, Jack’s Mannequin\n\n\nI know kung fu - Neo, “The Matrix”\n\nWhat do these to quotes have in common? Social Media.\nEveryone on social media is downloading something. They do it because they want to learn kung fu. And while they’re not on social media, other people are getting the download even more.\nSomething strange happens once you start spending 3+ hours on social a day. You start to see what’s actually going on. You start getting the cross-internet jokes. And once you do, you feel alone in a crowded room: you get the jokes that nobody else in your family gets. (Presumably because they have lives not on social media.)\nDetach from social (A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media) and you start to see something else: when you’re not on your phone at a party, you start to see just how much everyone is on social. Checking their SMS, their posts, etc. That’s when you really feel alone in a crowded room.\n\n\n\nAlone in a crowded room\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.html", - "title": "Vaulted Ceilings", + "objectID": "tech/why-we-want-new-software.html", + "href": "tech/why-we-want-new-software.html", + "title": "The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion", "section": "", - "text": "Every chapel I’ve been in has a vaulted, high ceiling. This is common across many church architectures.\nIt reminds me of the stable where he was born. It reminds me of above, how he came down. It reminds me that there’s space for everyone. Even if it’s crowded on the ground, there’s a ton of space Above. This is why he came: to make space for all of us.\n\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3.16\n\n\n\n\nA simple chapel with vaulted ceilings\n\n\nSource: Chapel with vaulted ceilings\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "What is it about a new release that gets people excited? Would you buy software that never changes? How about a hammer?\nWhy are we okay with buying a hammer, but not stagnant software? Our culture is addicted to new widgets. A/B testing.\n\n\n\nShipping software like fashion, every season\n\n\nSoftware releases are free, but development is not. Therefore, research and development is constant, whereas the Hammer company hasn’t needed to update its product in a couple…millennia. That’s why they call it software. It’s not hard to make.\nIs there a way to sell software like you sell a hammer?\nNo. Because per Innovator’s Dilemma, those who can out-do you will. And software is easy to alter and improve. I’m not convinced all “updates” done in the software industry are actually improvements, but people like change. Ever see a fashion line repeat itself?\nSoftware is like fashion.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Luke 7.36–38\n\nThe Pharisees didn’t like that she was a sinner.\n\nNow when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. Luke 7.39\n\nWe are redeemed by Him when we come with such a spirit as this woman.\n\nBehold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered. 2 Nephi 2.7\n\n\n\nMeaning\nThe sacrament isn’t for those who are perfect. It’s for me, a sinner. One who sins. And is sinning and doesn’t even know it. One who is separated from the happiness God would have me fully feel because of my ignorance, my natural state. I am good. I am loved. When I pray, He already knows I’m a sinner and loves me regardless. He doesn’t want me to see myself as a sinner, but as a worshipper who has much to grow from. And I am growing.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "In a recent MIT article, the author discusses how to know if you’re ready for AI adoption. It boils things down to a rather obvious four-step questioning process:\n\nHow much time would I save if I used AI?\nHow expensive is the task? (How expensive is the salary of the person doing the task.)\nHow capable is the AI of completing the task successfully?\nHow easy is it to determine if the output is good/correct?\n\nI say obvious because these are actually just questions you’d ask of any task worth doing by any person at your company. In every decision in running a business, there is an ROI question at play - what does this person cost me, what’s the return?\n\n\n\nIt’s not: “should I use AI?” It’s “how?”\n\n\n\nKnowing what you don’t know, and how to know you know it\nThe author lays out the hypothetical “I asked this ChatGPT to write something in Perl and it did it well on the second try!”\nConsider that. Do you know what Perl is? Would you know how to evaluate if the code is complete? How would you execute such code - do you know the programs to run?\nAI cannot solve these environmental, contextual problems yet. It can’t think through all the nuance. And, if you have an expensive salary, there’s a reason: you have a lot of experience. Experience to know what Perl is. Experience to recognize the code’s flaws and poor design patterns. This makes you all the more valuable with AI.\nOn the other hand, a highly creative, curious person could just ask AI “what programming languages are good for this task?” Like Neo in The Matrix when he “downloads kung-foo” into his brain, we all can get up to speed a lot faster.1\n\n\nHow do I adopt AI? (Not “should”)\nTo me, the question isn’t “do these four questions check the box”? Instead, I see AI as an always-on strategy with various ranges of usefulness:\n\nDo you care what the final product looks like?\n\nAre you okay with an 80% solution?\nIs this throwaway work?\nDo you plan to maintain this code as part of a 10,000 line code base?\nDo you just need ideas to get started?\n\nWhat are the risks in firing my experts?\n\nWho will catch the mistakes of the AI? What if it’s wrong?\nIn many aspects of your business the risk of being wrong might be a lot lower than you think.\n\nWhat can’t it do well?\n\nAssume AI is doing everything at your company - what would that look like?\nGive AI the benefit of the doubt first, then work backward from what it can’t do.\n\n\nI think that AI holds great power to aid our jobs in a lot of ways. It will replace a lot of jobs, just as there are far fewer farmers today than a hundred years ago. Those farmers are far more effective than ever before - we get more yield for less. It will replace part of your job - the stuff you know how to do but would rather have someone else do it.\nCoders will be highly automatable, especially those who think otherwise. Lawyers. Graphic designers. Marketers. This is a cycle as old as time: people and businesses who think they have a strong hold on the market (think: BlackBerry, Innovators Dilemma) are the ones who always get eclipsed. # Learn the new skillset\nHave everyone at your company use it today. It’s the new programming language. It’s the new way of authoring. And yes, prompt engineering (how you ask it questions) widely impacts its usefulness. Therefore, we all need to learn how to prompt engineer.\nThat is the new skillset: knowing what question to ask and how to pressure test its validity. In essence, the learning acceleration curve has skyrocketed, and one person can now actually be good at many things a lot faster. It’s the curious person who will win. It’s the visionary. The evaluator. The one who knows where they want to go, can discern if the steps they’re taking are taking them to their destination, and who have the ability to adapt and course correct when necessary.\nFor now, AI can hardly do things outside data it was trained on. In the future 10 years that may change. If so, we’ll all be on the edge of scientific discovery, pushing the bounds of creative work, and focusing on the nuance that will win/lose that legal case. AI will have a seat at the table. But so will we.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’ve read stories of people without technical backgrounds building websites with GPT. On the surface this is cool. Now do they care to keep doing that? Is that their personality? Are they going to get bored? This is the differentiator. And the people who stick with GPT to build a website and remain curious are the ones who will get ahead. Those who give up won’t.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.html", - "title": "Bread in the Oven", + "objectID": "tech/gpt4all.html", + "href": "tech/gpt4all.html", + "title": "GPT4All", "section": "", - "text": "Symbol\nBread is placed in an oven. Likewise His body was placed in a sepulcher. And he was in that sepulcher three days. When he came out, He was finished as a resurrected Lord.\n # Scriptures\n\nFor as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 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LM Studio is likely focused on people wanting to download and use the open source models, where this is to help you train and fine tune locally.\nUse it to connect with your notes:\nHow to Use GPT4All with Langchain to Chat with Your Documents | by Vikas Tiwari | Medium\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/innovators-dilemma.html", - "href": "book-review/innovators-dilemma.html", - "title": "Innovator’s Dilemma", + "objectID": "tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.html", + "href": "tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.html", + "title": "This drug is habit forming", "section": "", - "text": "_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Sometimes they tell you that at the pharmacy: “this drug is habit forming”. Or, the saline nasal spray bottle thing I tried once, “this spray is refreshing, but not habit forming.” Oh, how nice.\nWhy doesn’t everything have this distinction? Driving in the car: non habit forming. Eating a bag of goldfish when I’m noodling on a work problem: def habit forming.\nOne time, someone put a candy jar with skittles right beside my desk. It was for the whole floor, but my consumption was certainly not a pro-rata share. Buggy code? Gimme some skittles. Habit formed.\nSocial media? Someone likes your post? Habit formed.\n\n\n\nIronically Dalle put “habit farming”, which is kinda what social media is\n\n\nWhy don’t they warn that social media is one of the most addictive digital things we do? That we’ve just accepted as a society?\nIt took until 1964 before the surgeon general announced smoking caused cancer. The first cigarette machine was invented in 1881 by Albert Bonsack. That’s +80 years, not to mention it was popular for much longer before that.\nSo yes, society can get it wrong for many years before they change course and do the more healthful thing.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.html", - "href": "book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.html", - "title": "The Quest for Cosmic Justice", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.html", + "title": "Receive the Holy Ghost", "section": "", - "text": "Quest for cosmic justice\n\n\n2024-01-17 - housing reform: makes observers feel better about themselves. People who saved money in slums were forced to move to more expensive housing. This causes them to be even more dependent on the government as housing is more expensive and now they need subsidies - Tyranny of visions. - The Problem with Public Opinions - money and power. Chapter 14. - Chapter 15. Napoleonic power. Men will rise to seek this.\n2024-01-16 - war preparedness prevents war. - Ego and vision vs evidence. What’s the evidence for my theory? People defend visions more than evidence even in spite of evidence.\n2024-01-10\n\ncosmic justice - principle of equity\nPeople who want equality will end up destroying it - Milton Friedman’s. They’ll be consumed by their power.\nWe must consider the costs given the world we live in now. We cannot recreate the world from scratch.\n“Through no fault of their own”\n4/5 of millionaires are self made\nProblems stated in 1960\nEnvy = social justice\nImposing any constraint creates other costs.\npower. Politicians like promoting ideas so they can get elected.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Today at church someone was confirmed a member of the Church after having been baptized yesterday. This taught me something new about the sacrament and the covenant we make with Him every week.\n\n\n\nReceive the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\nEntry into His Church by Baptism\nAfter baptism, we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nBut now I give unto thee a commandment, that thou shalt baptize by water, and they shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, even as the apostles of old. Doctrine and Covenants 35.6\n\nThere is precedence for this, as the Savior gave the gift of the Holy Ghost to his apostles after he was no longer tarrying with them:\n\nAnd when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: John 20.22\n\nPausing on that thought for a moment, let’s consider the last sentence in the sacrament prayer on the bread:\n\nthat they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 4.3\n\nAlso consider that the last of the water prayer omits that word “always”:\n\nthat they may have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 5.2\n\nAre they contradictory? No. Because the full last sentence of the water prayer says:\n\nthat they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 5.2\n\nThis tells us that if we always remember him (the Savior), we’ll have His spirit to be with us.\nBack to the New Teatament. The Lord taught His disciples that the comforter would come to them once He left:\n\nNevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 16.7\n\nAnd in a prior chapter, Jesus had instructed that this was the plan - that he would give them the gift of the Comforter when He was gone. Notice the word “another”:\n\nAnd I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14.16–18\n\nPerhaps He said “another” Comforter because He is the first?\nHe further promised the role of the Holy Ghost is to teach of truth and testify of the Savior:\n\nBut when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John 15.26\n\nThe Lord also explained how He works with the Holy Ghost. It appears that, because the Savior was with them, He was their source of truth. But as He was planning to leave them He needed to leave them with a source of truth. As such, they were being prepared to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nThese things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 14.25–26\n\nThis doesn’t mean they didn’t have the spirit - how else could Peter have received His spiritual witness of the Savior? matthew-16.15-17\nWhat do these scriptures all teach me?\n\nIf we always remember the Savior, we’ll have His spirit to be with us\nHis spirit teaches us what is truth: it testifies of Christ\nHe gave this gift because we can’t always be in His presence.\nEven if we were in His presence, we’d need the spirit to let us know that He is the Christ\nWhen we receive the Holy Ghost after baptism, we are commanded to “receive the Holy Ghost” by confirmation into the church.\n\n\n\nWhat is the “gift” of the Holy Ghost?\nThis last one is powerful, because of a clarifying point in the handbook of the church:\n\n\nStates “receive the Holy Ghost” (not “receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”).\n18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings\n\n\nOr, the “gift” of the Holy Ghost perhaps isn’t a thing like the priesthood - something bestowed upon us. (This is something I’ve thought it was my whole life - a gift I receive.) why aren’t we told to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?\nWhat, then, is legally binding about the Lord’s covenant? And what is the “gift of the Holy Ghost” as mentioned in the scriptures? (Articles of Faith 1.4, Moses 5.58, Jacob 6.8, Doctrine and Covenants 39.23, Doctrine and Covenants 49.14, Acts 10.45, and like 4 other references…it’s referenced in every standard work!)\nEven the Lord says he’ll bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nAnd whoso having faith you shall confirm in my church, by the laying on of the hands, and I will bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost upon them. Doctrine and Covenants 33.15\n\nBecause we don’t “receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”, perhaps the gift of the Holy Ghost is instead the promised blessing of the constant companionship as a result of keeping our covenant. Things consistent with the definitions in the Guide to the Scriptures:\n\nIt is the right of every worthy baptized member of the Church to have the constant influence of the Holy Ghost. Following a person’s baptism into the true Church of Jesus Christ, he receives the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands from one who has the proper authority Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nAnyone on earth can enjoy the Holy Ghost. It teaches those of truth. But only those of the covenant of baptism, who keep that covenant and the Sacrament Covenant (To always remember Him, keep His commandments, and take His name upon us), are blessed always with His spirit. Things the gift of the Holy Ghost: its constant companionship.\n\nWhile someone is being confirmed a member of the Church, he or she is told to “receive the Holy Ghost.” The gift of the Holy Ghost is not forced on anyone. It becomes the responsibility of members to invite the Holy Ghost to be with them Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nAnd perhaps the ordinance of the confirmation is to start that covenant: “receive the Holy Ghost now, and always as you remember Me.”\nAnd why do we always want His spirit to be with us? Because the spirit is a proxy for Him: the Comforter, the Source of Truth, the Light and Life of the World. When we have that spirit, we are of the Kingdom of Heaven (on earth).\nSo when I take the sacrament every week, I’m making the covenant to always remember Him so that I can enjoy the gift of receiving the Holy Ghost always.\n\nWhy is this relevant to me personally?\n\nthe gift isn’t some separate power that I can offend or please. It’s not some separate God. Instead, the gift is a covenant. This changes my focus away from a relationship with the Holy Ghost and instead a relationship with the Savior. The purpose of the holy ghost is to point me to the Savior. And if I’m not feeling the spirit, it’s not about trying to please the Holy Ghost - I just need to begin remembering the savior in that moment.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/dune-messiah.html", - "href": "book-review/dune-messiah.html", - "title": "Dune: Messiah", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.html", + "title": "Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones", "section": "", - "text": "Vibe:\n\ncoool ending. The blind guy sees out of his kids eyes.\nRefuses Chaney reincarnation.\nDuncan Idaho returns.\nTwins: Star Wars copies. And padme. And all that.\nMore political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. 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The rest want to jump on the moving train. By definition, a conductor has people following.\n\n2024-01-08 Notes: - sometimes lies are easier to believe than the truth - He may be a mentat, Benegesseret, etc but he’s still human. He has a weakness. -\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Symbol\nWe break bread, but His bones were not broken. Only His flesh.\n\n\n\nBread to be broken\n\n\n\n\nScriptures\nWhenever we break the bread, I’m reminded of many things. But one that sticks out is that Christ’s legs were commanded to be broken by the Roman leaders:\n\nThe Jewish officials, who had not hesitated to slay their Lord, were horrified at the thought of men left hanging on crosses on such a day, for thereby the land would be defiled; so these scrupulous rulers went to Pilate and begged that Jesus and the two malefactors be summarily dispatched by the brutal Roman method of breaking their legs, the shock of which violent treatment had been found to be promptly fatal to the crucified. Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial\n\nIt was a technique practiced by the Romans to hasten the death of the crucified:\n\nVictims in the head up position could spend several days on the cross before they died. One technique used by the Romans to hasten death was to break the legs below the knee with a blunt instrument1 (p. 25) Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion - PMC\n\nA bit graphic, but how did this technique possibly accelerate the death?\n\nAccording to those who have studied the grim mechanics of crucifixion, in order to breathe adequately, the crucified victim periodically had to push himself up using his legs. Breaking the legs prevented him from doing that, thus hastening his death. He would suffocate. Why are the crucified persons’ legs broken?\n\nBut Christ’s legs were not broken as instructed. Continuing the quote above from Jesus the Christ:\n\n…The governor gave his consent, and the soldiers broke the limbs of the two thieves with cudgels. Jesus, however, was found to be already dead, so they broke not His bones. Christ, the great Passover sacrifice, of whom all altar victims had been but suggestive prototypes, died through violence yet without a bone of His body being broken, as was a prescribed condition of the slain paschal lambs. Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial\n\nWhy? Why weren’t the bones broken? Why is this significant?\nThe bones of a paschal lamb were meant not to be broken.\nIt dates back to the Mosiac Passover in Egypt (when the firstborns of the Egyptians and the Pharaoh were killed)\n\nIn one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. Exodus 12.46\n\n\nThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. Numbers 9.12\n\nIt was prophesied that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” (Psalm 34.19–20)\nJohn testified of the fulfillment of this prophecy:\n\nThe Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: John 19.31–33\n\n\n36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. John 19.36\n\nSo while we break the bread, His bones were not broken. Just His flesh.\n\n\nMeaning\nThe details that were fulfilled at His death remind me of His prophetic life. The fact that he was killed according to the law, and the law predated him and is scripture in the Torah, is further evidence that Christ truly lived and that his life was a fulfillment of prophecy.\nLikewise, those same details apply to my life. He is involved in those details. Alma 37.7\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.html", - "href": "book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.html", - "title": "101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.html", + "title": "Bread given freely, like His life", "section": "", - "text": "TL;DR: 101 Ideas. This is like a modern day Meditations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023-12-20 9-11\n\nhappiness of pleasure, grace (appreciation), excellence (emotional resilience)\nsome of the poorest countries are the happiest.\n\n2023-12-19 Essays 1-8\n\nwe all started as strangers\nto change your beliefs, go have experiences that manifest and confirm the beliefs you want to have\ncan only have a few truly\nour relationship with others is a pure reflection of our relationship with our self. Work on your relationship with yourself to improve your relationship with others.\ndo you look at your leg and say “that’s me?” No. That’s my leg. Do you look at your eye, heart, hair? No. Do you look at your fears, hopes or dreams and say, that’s me?\nfear and Anxiety aren’t feelings. They’re symptoms.\nWhat emotion do you feel the most often? Is it positive? If not, why does a negative feeling deserve the spotlight? What does this tell you about your relationship with yourself?\n\n2023-12-22 essays 12+\n\nknowing doing gap. “If I lived today on repeat for 10 years where will I be?” What would happen if I didn’t do X?\n\nInsights: - self actualization is what we’re all doing. We all mostly have shelter, food, job, even if minimum wage.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Symbol\nAll are welcome. Everyone. He doesn’t want a skimpy congregation. He wants it packed. The bread is offered to everyone, the way His life was.\nLikewise, his life was freely given. Free. He had control. And He gives the sacrament freely to all who see it.\n\n\nScriptures\nAll are invited to participate in the sacrament, which is symbolic of the life He freely gave. All souls in the chapel are invited to partake of His goodness.\nOnly He could give up His life:\n\nA natural effect of His immortal origin, as the earth-born Son of an immortal Sire, was that He was immune to death except as He surrendered thereto. The life of Jesus the Christ could not be taken save as He willed and allowed. The power to lay down His life was inherent in Himself, as was the power to take up His slain body in an immortalized state. Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem\n\nChrist alone was given power by God to control the fate of his otherwise immortal body:\n\nTherefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. John 10.17–18\n\nBy similar rite, all are welcome. He is in control.\n\nAnd behold, ye shall meet together oft; and ye shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid them not; 3 Nephi 18.22\n\n\n\nMeaning\nBecause Christ had a choice, and not the Romans, over the timing of His death, and He chose to be taken in captivity, and He chose to walk up the hill, the Lord showed he did all that He could to offer Himself to us.\nWhen I pray, I’m not praying to an unknown God. I’m praying to one who fully understands me (Porous Bread).\nWhen I pray, I can remember He’s already done His part. The only thing holding me back from feeling His love is me.\nHow can I pray in such a way to lower those barriers that I put up between Him and me ?\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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(Or rather it’s not just whimsical).\nImaginative thinking is crucial for both artistic creation and scientific discovery\n\nOwenbarfield blog\n\n\n\n\nTakeaway - their creative ideas took decades to form. Or went years without being published. - Surround yourself with people who challenge you - They created a new syllabus. - power is to those who hold it. Everyone else adapts.\nBlog ideas: - don’t mistake challenge with truth. Someone who is on mistrurh side can convince you\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Today I noticed the wooden beams supporting the roof of my chapel building.\nChrist is our foundation. He’s our rock. But he also carried the cross up the hill. People looked up to him in His last moments.\nLikewise this beam above me can represent His ascension above the cross. It can also remind me to take up His cross.\n\n\n\nWooden beams\n\n\n\n24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16.24–26\n\nThe irony of the cross is that He was the Law, the one who gave Moses the book of Deuteronomy. And he was sentenced to death by the same law he gave to the Israelites:\n\nAnd if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 21.22–23\n\nThe irony is that while he fulfilled the law of Moses, he was condemned according to it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Teach them the benefits they’ll get. - Flattery vs appreciation - flattery is lip service. If you’re trying to convince someone to do something and you’re using flattery, then thats manipulation. And you’re prone to get angry if they don’t want to do it (kids). But if you’re sincere, you’ll find a solution - Arouse in others an eager want - Don’t tell someone an idea. Plant the seed and make them think it’s their own.\n2024-01-20 - 85% of success is in non-technical skills. Communication. - We grow far faster by rewarding good behavior than punishing bad behavior - Kids. - Futility of criticism - Ask questions. “Does your hard hat not fit properly? It will save you.” - Don’t kick a beehive if you want honey - “I don’t see how I could have done any better” - Criticism - Abraham Lincoln never sent the letter -\n\n\n\nCore ideas\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to win friends and influence people\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "2024-01-25\n\nus vs them thinking\nLabeling.\ncognitive distortions.\nIllogical gaps.\nTribalism. It’s within us all.\nThe rhetoric in the world affects us all. We can overcome by paying heed. But the people who probably need to read this book don’t. Same with any book: it’s never received by the people who need it most, perhaps.\nanti-fragility: don’t want you to be safe. Want you to be strong. Armor. Don’t want you to run. Want you to have the strength to overcome.\nconcept creep.\nDon’t defend the attacked.\n“rallies are sometimes in the belief in a God, but always in the belief of a devil”\n\n\n\n2024-01-23\nCBT: Emotional Reasoning, catastrophizing, labeling, Overgeneralising, black|white, mind reading, negative filtering, discounting positives, blaming\n\nEmotional reasoning. Confusing feelings with thoughts or reality is a cognitive distortion.\nCatastrophizing imagines a sequence of events. But it’s seldom true.\nOvergeneralising.\nDichotomous thinking. All or nothing thinking.\nMind reading\nLabelling. Because someone belongs to a category doesn’t mean they embody all the traits of that category.\nNegative filtering. Amplifying negative signals, so it overwhelms the positive.\nDiscounting positives. Rationalising away positive evidence as if it doesn’t count.\nBlaming.\n\n\ntribalism.\nCARE framework for responding to challenges.\nTheory: we grow through being challenged, not the opposite. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "2024-01-30 - Ackerman method from Never Split the Difference applies to the concept of anchoring. Better to anchor at $2 then tell them $200 off than play a joke at $10000 but only offer $200. - Reciprocity - the small things compound over time. Give more than you expect to get. - “Because”. Giving reasons is persuasive, that word is a trigger.\n\n\n\nInfluence\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Whether I’ll follow the system is up for debate, but I love the ideas so far. It very much fits my naturally organized mind, but may not work for more spontaneous folks that don’t like as much structure and list keeping.\nMost of my “todos” have been “intended outcomes”, but not “next actions”. For example, I see I have “change car battery” on my list right now and “plan yosemite trip”. But these aren’t todos. I can’t organize and prioritize outcomes. I can only organize and prioritize actions, he says. Changing these to “call mechanic to book oil and battery change and identify an hour in your calendar”. And “open recreation.gov when walking around the house and find a campsite.”\nOrganize tasks around where you’ll do them. This is in line with Atomic habits which states to be hyper specific about where and when you’ll do something. “Call grandma when I get into my car tomorrow morning to go to work.” Or “take a moment at my desk during lunchtime to find a mechanic by opening Google Maps and plan an oil change. Find 1 open hour on the calendar.”\n\n\n\nPutting it into practice\nI’ve been using TickTick for my task manager, which has Lists (folders) where I can put my tasks and tags so I can label and categorize each task. 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One for my mom, to try to comfort and counsel her.\nI’m grateful for doctors of the mind who help alleviate sicknesses of stress, anxiety, depression, etc. I know more people with some type of recurring emotional distress than I know without. I see the benefits reaped by those who seek emotional healing through therapy. I’m proud of the friends who struggle, but who don’t struggle alone. The only way out, is with.\nI’m grateful for healers of the soul. Christ invited everyone to change their ways by letting go of the things that didn’t bring them true happiness, and focus on the things that do. In one invitation, he urged us to come unto him “that I may heal you”. I’ve witnessed spiritual healing through prayer, which is the process of going from feeling forgotten to then knowing I am a child of God and he has a plan for me.\n\n\nHe Came to Heal\nThis to me is the meaning of Christmas: healing. Freedom from bruised bodies, broken minds, or hurting hearts. He came to be broken, so that we may be healed.\n\nBut he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5\n\n\nHe will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities. Alma 7:12\n\nNot all healing happens in an instant, and sometimes some things don’t fully heal or heal at all. But I’m grateful healing is possible and there are doctors in the constant pursuit of it. And I’m grateful for friends who have, at times, helped heal me in all these ways.\nMost of us won’t be known as doctors. But all of us try the best we can to help heal our loved ones, such as healing a child with a band aid, a spouse with a hug, a friend with a lunch. Thank you for doing the work of Christmas, all year round.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Music is a beautiful thing.\nI’m not much of a musician, but I do love it. The first time I learned to play the guitar I felt a new form of communication.\nI had known the piano before that, having played it in high school. But there was something about the guitar that taught me how to speak with music.\nYou speak with random noises from your mouth, surely you can speak with emotion from a musical instrument.\nAnd people do. Great musicians communicate something in a way that words alone cannot express. And sometimes the music itself evokes an identity you didn’t know existed.\nThat’s the power of music. And I think it’s really cool that humans all over the world understand this power.\n\n\n\nAt some point you wanted to be this guy or girl, admit it.\n\n\n\nReminds me as well of a close friend who wrote an album when a loved one passed away. Those were some of the most beautiful lyrics and music I had ever heard. Sometimes the best music comes from nobodies, including yourself.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/hard-work.html", - "href": "gratitude/hard-work.html", - "title": "Hard Work and its Reward", + "objectID": "gratitude/imagination.html", + "href": "gratitude/imagination.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Imagination", "section": "", - "text": "My dad grew up on a sheep farm. And his dad grew up farming too. Same with his dad, all the way back to when dads were a thing.\nOne of my grand/great grands worked on a beet farm. I read a story once about the beet farmers by Jay Jensen. It was called “Hoe to the end of the row” (apparently there’s a poem with that same title).\n\n\n\nBeet it, just beet it…\n\n\nThe principle the author shared was of planting to the end of the row. Some people got lazy and gave up 80% of the way through. But the hard workers went to the end. They took pride in it. And when the harvest came the boss knew who was coming back next summer: those with finished rows.\nI’m grateful for hard work. My grandpa told my dad to work with his mind, not his back.\nSo my dad got a desk job. And so did I.\nPerhaps if my grandpa had seen today maybe he would instead say “get off those screens and go plant a beet”. But hard work is hard regardless of it being mental or physical. “Hard work” is the reward itself.\nIn another quote my father shared with me: “the gift of a good life is having lived it”. Same applies to hard work. The reward of hard work is having done it.\nMost of what we do on a daily basis goes unnoticed. The rewards are for ourselves. This is a joy of life.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I was with my kids at the park as we go from tree to tree. One is my house. One is her house. One is his house. We’re playing neighbors, having ice cream, and cooking s’mores on a fire. None of these things exist.\nIt dawned on me for a moment: I wish I could see what they see. Where did it go - my constant imagination? It’s in there somewhere, the place where there’s no difference between dream and reality. The joy they feel at make believe Disneyland (the playground) and real Disneyland is in many degrees the same.\nThis is all because of their imagination. I’m grateful to have kids show me the many uses for a boring twig: a wand; a walking stick; a s’mores roaster; a knob to open a secret gate to the house; a portal to another world…\n\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/eyes.html", - "href": "gratitude/eyes.html", - "title": "Eyes", + "objectID": "gratitude/toothbrush.html", + "href": "gratitude/toothbrush.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for the Toothbrush", "section": "", - "text": "An eyeball\n\n\nThere are several reasons why I’m grateful for eyes:\n\nThey’re fun to look at. Ever look at a newborn’s eyes? Your significant other’s?\nThey interpret light. My ears can’t interpret light. My feet can’t. But my eyes can. They can perceive depth, color, texture, etc.\nThey inspired the creation of the camera, and we use to our eyes to look at photos of good memories.\n\nParaphrasing a quote from Dune, “don’t rely too much on sight, it dulls your other senses”. I wonder what I’d be able to see if I didn’t have eye sight. I suppose I could be grateful for that too: that life is still wonderful even without eye sight.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Is there anything more refreshing than brushing your teeth? Anything less satisfying than going to bed without brushing your teeth (camping, airplane ride?)?\nBrushing my teeth is a gift. And I know it prevents problems (cavities, disease, etc). It also enables me to have more sugar, which is probably bad for me but I enjoy regardless.\nIn The Power of Habit and learned about this great fact about tooth brushing (summarized by ChatGPT):\n\nYes, “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg does mention toothpaste. The book discusses how toothpaste companies, particularly Pepsodent, leveraged the power of habit to increase their product’s usage. Duhigg explains how Pepsodent created a daily habit for people by associating the use of toothpaste with the tingling sensation it produces, which wasn’t common in toothpastes before Pepsodent. This case study is used to illustrate how cues and rewards can create lasting habits.\n\nPepsodent and their marketing team in the 1920’s changed life for us all. Same goes for body wash, hand soap, and other soaps - they put the bubbles in them to make us think it’s “working”.\nBut I also like bubbles. Who doesn’t like bubbles? Toothpaste has bubbles. What a gift.\n\n\n\nFamily bonding through bubbling refreshment since the 1920s\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/small-things.html", - "href": "gratitude/small-things.html", - "title": "I’m grateful for small things", + "objectID": "gratitude/basketball.html", + "href": "gratitude/basketball.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Basketball", "section": "", - "text": "In my deli this morning (I’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops), there’s a cheesy quote on the pinboard:\n\nMaturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start appreciating the small things…\n\nThis is why I’ve started to give thanks daily. It’s a powerful rewiring of the brain.\n\nAnd the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls. Alma 37.7\n\nEffects so far of giving thanks daily:\n\nI think about what I gave thanks on later in the day\nWhile writing, ideas flood into the mind, building the thoughts more than initially realized\nit hones my mind to prepare ahead and think about something. What I write about I think about: before and after.\nIt’s fun to blog about things as they happen, such as I’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops.\n\nI learned once on my mission that “when I don’t have gratitude, I don’t have anything.” I remember the day I learned this, discussing the concept with my roommate/companion. Those who don’t give thanks end up complaining. If you’re complaining then you don’t have anything you want. If you give thanks, you have everything you could want. The list is endless on both ends.\nAlma 37.7\n\nAnd the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.\n\n\n\n\nSmaller the better\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Just played some ball tonight. Not sure who invented this game, but it’s really come a long way.\nThe cool thing is that you can be horrible at shooting and still find a way to contribute. There are a lot of skills and abilities that make a good team.\nI play with the same 20 guys, and it’s amazing how different combinations of 5 people play so differently. The flow, the passing, the defense - it all varies with who’ve you got on the court. And that’s what makes it fun. Sometimes you contribute more. Sometimes less.\n\n\n\nBasketball\n\n\nI’ve played it my whole life, though never well. I played in rec leagues in college. In rec leagues in high school. And now with a bunch of folks who just love the game. And that’s why it’s fun: it brings people together.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/my-childhood.html", - "href": "gratitude/my-childhood.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for My Childhood", + "objectID": "gratitude/grateful-for-artists.html", + "href": "gratitude/grateful-for-artists.html", + "title": "I’m grateful for artists", "section": "", - "text": "I won the childhood lottery. I had good parents, good siblings, good friends, and luckily made a few good choices.\nThat’s all it takes: a few good choices. I credit my parents for giving me a good home to grow up in, a good religion to teach me good principles, and a lot of support.\nAs I grow older, time reveals itself. The dust under the childhood cushion is now identified. As I raise my own children I wonder: how did they do it?\nWhich perhaps is what my children will ask me someday.\n\n\n\nChildhood is playing\n\n\nI’m grateful I played a lot.\nI’m grateful for parents who take up the challenge to raise the next generation. I’m grateful for siblings to live, love, and learn from. For friends who make the journey an adventure, and for a family that I can always come back to.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Someone sent me this video:\n\nThis artist has 536 followers on YouTube. Not exactly an influencer.\nWhat makes someone special? Because other people think they’re special? Because they have a lot of followers?\nThis video has some cool insights, things I never considered before. The image is really meaningful.\n\n\n\nLittle Lamb, by Jenedy Paige\n\n\nIm grateful for people who do research. Who create. Who take on projects they don’t want to but feel inspired to take on. For people who connect the dots in new ways.\nCreativity is a process. Everyone has the capacity to be creative. Everyone has uniquely experienced a unique combination of things. Therefore, when they synthesize those things, they become like a little Da Vinci.\nNo, this isn’t the Mona Lisa. But it doesn’t have to be to be meaningful and powerful. Even if it only reaches 536 YouTube subscribers.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/heaven.html", - "href": "gratitude/heaven.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Heaven", + "objectID": "gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.html", + "href": "gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.html", + "title": "I’m grateful for blankets", "section": "", - "text": "I’m not sure what I would do if I didn’t have a concept of Heaven in my mind. It yields so very many benefits for me:\n\nGives me hope for when family members pass\nReminds me why life matters: I can only take with me my relationships.\nHeaven is about people, not money. Reminds me what matters in life and what will bring me happiness.\nGives me purpose as I raise my family.\n\nI have a sense that heaven is more like a peaceful home than a luxurious resort. Physical amenities don’t yield joy. True pleasure and enduring happiness in life come from inner peace.\n\n\n\nMy heavenly home would probably be more spruced up, but this is pretty peaceful.\n\n\nAs a concept alone, it guides you to make better decisions by living long term: death is only a door to the beyond. Even if I assume that heaven is a farce, still believing in it yields so much good for one’s life. But thankfully it’s not just some notion. It’s a real place. I’m grateful the Lord created the heavens.\n\nBelieve in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. Mosiah 4.9\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A blanket\n\n\nI’m outside right now enjoying the warmth of a blanket. It’s a special thing. It’s warm. It’s fuzzy. And the only question I have is: is it warm because it’s fuzzy? Or is it fuzzy because it’s warm?\nIn the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy the most important item any many could carry was a towel. It’s a multifaceted tool. Perhaps a blanket is the towel’s cousin.\nMy grandma loved to quilt, so me and all my family have hand crafted blankets. Even great grandchildren have blankets long after my grandma deceased because she had a surplus in her basement.\nThere’s something special about being wrapped in something warm, especially if it’s made by someone who loves you. Kinda sends a special hug in a way that a towel just can’t.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/zoom.html", - "href": "gratitude/zoom.html", - "title": "Zoom", + "objectID": "gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.html", + "href": "gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand", "section": "", - "text": "I first heard about zoom many years ago on a random podcast. Had no idea what it was or why it was useful. Now it’s enabled me to work remotely, chat with friends across the nation, and even attend church during lockdowns.\nBehind this is a person with an idea that changed the world. Surely they weren’t the first video service, but they build off the earlier, crappier products.\nI’m grateful for V1’s like Skype that paved the way for Zoom, which learned a ton, probably poached some talent, and gave me something with using.\n\n\n\nBeethoven Zooming with friends, ala Caravaggio\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I don’t know about or understand a lot of things. Here’s a random list:\n\nmolecular biology\nbrain surgery\nShakespeare\nDiplomacy between nations\nBest teaching methods for four year olds\nHow the heater in my house works\nHow Apple Silicon works\nA lot of data science stuff despite working as a data scientist for 10 years\n\nThe thing with knowledge is that the more you get of it, the more questions you have about the world. It was kind of hard even making that list above because I know enough to know that I don’t know enough about it. What about all the things I know nothing about. Or scarier, what about the things I think I know something about but really don’t.\nAll these things mean there’s something to be learned on every day, every minute. The world is full. We are all multi-faceted individuals who can do a ton of different things. Perhaps often we compare ourselves to those who know most about a subject vs the value and opportunity we bring with the unique set of knowledge each of us has accumulated.\nI’m grateful I’m usually wrong. It means there’s a better way. And if things turned out okay and I’m wrong, that’s even better: it means I can improve!\nI’m grateful I’m able to learn from anyone on earth, who at least has a guaranteed different life experience and set of knowledge gained. I’m also grateful that everyone else is as imperfect as me, which means I can challenge them to figure out how they came to their knowledge and whether their knowledge is actually that or just a belief/opinion/etc.\nAll of this is fun, gives diversity to life, lets me know that there’s hope for a better world.\n\n\n\nLearning from brains that learn from books written by brains\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.html", - "href": "gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.html", - "title": "Light", + "objectID": "gratitude/ice-skating.html", + "href": "gratitude/ice-skating.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Ice Skating", "section": "", - "text": "I installed 72 lights today. This took drilling a hole into my fence, then making the cord taught, then screwing the screw into the cord’s loopy thingy. Then I move on to the next one.\nThe whole process took three hours. But I’m glad it took three hours. I appreciate it so much more because I did it myself. I thought carefully about each hole I drilled.\nAnd it felt good to sit out there and listen to an audio book (lots of Dune today, some Killers of the Flower Moon).\nI’m grateful for Thomas Edison. For the inspiration he received, for the hard work he did to give the gift of light to the world. And if he hadn’t done it someone else would have, which is also something to be grateful for. There are a lot of smart, good people on this earth.\n\n\n\nNot what it looks like, but how it feels\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Today I went ice skating. It was great.\nI remembered a video about this old guy that wakes up at 5am or something and goes out and waters the ice rink. He fills up a few tubs of his own hot water and just treks over to the public park to fill up the rink. He uses his own homemade zamboni and what not.\nThere are good people in this world.\n\n\n\nIce rink\n\n\nWhat’s cool about an ice rink is I don’t think about it for 364 days a year. But it’s there when I want to go. So that means enough people love it to keep it in business, and I can go only when I want to (once a year). Thats a cool thing too: collective community makes so many things possible, like downtown restaurants and museums - places that if they relied just on me they’d never last. But the community keeps them afloat (pun?).\nI tried finding it, but this is the closest thing I could find. Just imagine this very old guy out there shlepping 55 gallon drums of water.\n\n\nI found it!\n\nIt’s just become a way of life. If I don’t do the rink I don’t feel right.\n\n\nWhat a guy.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.html", - "href": "gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.html", - "title": "Listening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music", + "objectID": "gratitude/audiobooks.html", + "href": "gratitude/audiobooks.html", + "title": "Audiobooks", "section": "", - "text": "I’m grateful for people who really know how to sing. This song moved me, and I’m grateful music has that capacity.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When I first discovered audiobooks it felt like a super power. I can listen while working out, while doing dishes, while folding laundry, etc. the possibilities! Then came Libby, the app that allows me to connect to my local library and do what?! Download audiobooks?! Yes plz.\nIn 2023 I got back into podcasts. Lots of All-in listening, a lot of Tim Ferris again, some Huberman, etc.\nDespite fascinating interviews that tell the story of now, the benefit of a book is that it’s hundreds if not thousands of hours of mental preparation, editing, preparing. Why wouldn’t I want to read something that someone spent thousands of hours curating vs them just spitballing for 60m.\nSome podcasts can tell a different story than you can get in a book, or tell the backstory, etc. but they’re usually on a podcast to get you to read the book!!\nThank you to the writers, and to all readers who give them an audience and a livelihood so they’ll keep writing.\n\n\n\nBoring chores are now some of my favorite parts of the day\n\n\nSee reading-ethos\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.html", - "href": "gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers", + "objectID": "gratitude/rescue-workers.html", + "href": "gratitude/rescue-workers.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Rescue Workers", "section": "", - "text": "My daughter brought home a book that introduced something I had never before heard about: Navajo code talkers.\nSince the Navajo language had never been written down, it wasn’t able to be translated by the Japanese in WWII. And so, the Navajo would encode English words and transmit their words across the radio to talk about positions and bombs and such. It helped them win the war.\nThey chose to serve a country they were being heavily persecuted in (Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI). It’s incredible to think about.\nI’m grateful for them and all like them that helped provide the freedoms I enjoy.\n\n\n\nCode talker on the radio\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Just read a book about the true “heroes” of this world with my kids. It illustrated the many perils that members of the coast guard, police department, fire department, and health care workers and such face.\nI think about the souls who lost their lives trying to save victims of 9/11. I think about someone close to me who was flown on a helicopter to another hospital and saved there. I think about a friend in high school who was carted away in an ambulance because they collapsed right on the ground during the middle of a game.\nWe have an amazing response team in America. The fact that anyone can pick up their phone and dial 3 numbers and get help within 5 minutes from people trained to help is pretty incredible. It’s a safety net we don’t appreciate until we need it. And many in the world live without it.\n\n\n\nHelp is on the way!\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/open-source.html", - "href": "gratitude/open-source.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Open Source", + "objectID": "gratitude/good-books.html", + "href": "gratitude/good-books.html", + "title": "Good Books", "section": "", - "text": "Open source software is incredible. I’m deeply grateful for the people who create it and share it.\nSo much of the world benefits from open source software. YouTube was built off Python. Samsung phones run on Android. Most modern websites are built off something Zuckerberg released. PyTorch and Tensorflow have ushered in the AI revolution.\nWe’d get along without open source. But we’d be using SAS or Stata, beholden to Oracle and Java everywhere and just enduring a slow pace of innovation.\nAI is open sourced. The future is now.\n\n\n\nOpen source as a person, according to ClosedAI\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m grateful for good books. They take time. They take effort. They’re art (I’m grateful for artists). I’m finishing Dune right now and I can’t imagine how long and how arduous the task must have been. They say it took Herbert six years, but many years in addition thinking about it. It’s powerfully creative, and has set the tone for science fiction for the next 60 years.\nI’m grateful people can be so powerfully curious, intelligent, motivated, and capable to create such a book. Humans can do incredible things.\n\n\n\nBooks are only enjoyed if read\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/chirping-birds.html", - "href": "gratitude/chirping-birds.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Chirping Birds", + "objectID": "gratitude/haircuts.html", + "href": "gratitude/haircuts.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Haircuts", "section": "", - "text": "Been hearing some birds chirp lately. It’s still January but around where I live it’s practically spring.\nOn early morning hikes I can sometimes hear the birds waking up. Sometimes a tree will be full of the little chirpers.\nWhy do birds sing? Why do they like singing more in the late winter, or after a rain storm? It’s a calming reassurance that we’ve all been hunkered down during a storm and are relieved to see the sun.\nMaybe it’s the beady eyes, the quick twitch of the head and neck, the instinctual liftoff when you get too close…maybe that’s why I like them. They’re just cool. Birds are cool.\n\n\n\nThe green and the birds make a great combo\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Growing up my mom would cut my hair. I would sit in the bathroom on a wooden stool, looking into the mirror.\nToday I cut my son’s hair for the first time. I couldn’t help but think of those many years of one-on-one conversations with my mom.\nSpending time just sitting and talking can be the best time we have to share. It can be something as simple as a boring haircut.\n\n\n\nTime together is time not apart\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/compliments.html", - "href": "gratitude/compliments.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Compliments", + "objectID": "gratitude/healing.html", + "href": "gratitude/healing.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Healing", "section": "", - "text": "I’m grateful for compliments. The ones I receive and the ones I can give.\nThe cheapest thing you can give someone is a compliment. Yet it may be the most valuable gift to be given.\nI’m reading Influence The Psychology of Persuasion which talks about “reciprocity”. People feel someone obligated to help you when you give them something, even if it’s nominal. Isn’t a compliment a gift?\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People also discusses the benefits of being kind, and putting yourself in another’s shoes. Kindness far exceeds the benefits of criticism. A compliment is a way to think about what that person may want to hear and to give them that. Not in an insincere way, but in a sincere way.\nPeople act how they want to be treated. If they show up to play basketball they want to be told they’re good at basketball. If they work on a task for you, it’s because they want to be told they’re good at that task. It doesn’t hurt to be nice. To give a compliment. So give away.\nBeing human is recognizing what other people aspire for and recognize that goodness in them. So notice. Notice what they’re after. Then give. Give freely, for so did He (Bread given freely, like His life).\n\n\n\nGiving a compliment is giving life to someone\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A scraped knee. A broken leg. A cancerous tumor. A fractured mind. Wounded soul. Torn relationship.\nHealing is possible. Thanks be to God for the gift of healing.\n\n\n\nHealing\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Baby formula is a miracle. According to the internet, without it, people would either use cows milk, goats milk, etc and mix it with water and honey.\nThe fact that people can go to the store and buy food to feed their infant is a miracle. It’s one of the things that has reduced infant mortality.\n\n\n\nRefreshingly delicious\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/strollers.html", - "href": "gratitude/strollers.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Strollers", + "objectID": "gratitude/youtube.html", + "href": "gratitude/youtube.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for YouTube", "section": "", - "text": "Plop them in, buckle them up. Go on a run, give them a cup.\n\nStrollers are how I take my kids to school every day. I strap them in (or they just sit down), and I hop on my Onewheel and we go on a ride.\n10 m.p.h., the wind in our hair, the cars waiting behind us because we’re fast enough and wide enough that they can’t pass us. All of this is good.\nMy kids get to see more of the world faster, even if that world is just here to school. My non-school kids can get out for a minute without a huge hassle on my part.\nThe best part is: the stroller rolls. I don’t have to drag it. I don’t have to slog it. It’s not a 50lb brick. It’s got wheels. The marvelous creation of the near frictionless geometric phenomena that is a wheel.\nSo I guess I’m also grateful for wheels and chariots. Thank you to whomever invented these things thousands of years ago.\n\n\n\nA chariot stroller\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Where else can you learn how to cook, listen to a book or podcast, watch a documentary, listen to music and so much more?\nYouTube is an amazing platform that offers so much to the world for free.\n\n\n\nYouTube glorifidd\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Cars are great.\n\n\n\nI like my Subaru, even if it’s salvaged and 14 years old\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m grateful for beaches. That they exist. That they haven’t been removed. That they are places where people can go and recharge.\nAt 5pm, hundreds of people showed up to take a photo of this hydrogen blob descending to the horizon line. Why?\nBecause sunsets are cool, and so are beaches.\n\n\n\nHydrogen descending over hydrogen dioxide\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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(Maybe that’s not a scientific thing, but I feel like it is 😂).\nI’m slightly less grateful that my 16 year old self could bench more than I’ll ever again be able to bench, and run more than I’ll ever again have time to run, but perhaps I’m grateful I can challenge myself to surpass my teenage years.\n\n\n\nGet up. Get going. Get on.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When I was a kid, I broke my wrist. I no longer would be able to play football. It was my senior year, the year where all the magic happens. The year you prepare for. The big leagues.\nMy mom told me, “when a door closes, open a window. This if life”.\nA new perspective is an opportunity to see something that was there all along, but because of myopia you didn’t previously see it.\n\n\n\nI felt like this when I dove for the football. But I didn’t look like this because I didn’t catch it. Instead I broke my wrist.\n\n\nPerspective is realizing that senior year wasn’t any more special than the junior year where I had fun on JV. Perspective is realizing it’s just a game. Perspective is years later realizing that something I cared so much about at the time now has little value or importance in my life, and other things have far more importance to me.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/similarities.html", - "href": "gratitude/similarities.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Similarities", + "objectID": "gratitude/time.html", + "href": "gratitude/time.html", + "title": "Time", "section": "", - "text": "Is there anything truly unique about any one individual? At the very least, any two people probably have eyes, ears, a mouth, and a nose. They probably have brain and a heart. Probably have fingers and toes.\nProbably have feelings. Experience love. Guilt. Shame. Anger. Resentment. Joy. Elation. Fear. Anxiety. Doubt. Faith. Fulfillment. Hope.\nThe reason why they feel these things will certainly be unique to them, but likely follow the themes of family, friends, food, shelter, fulfillment, etc.\nI learned after being in Honduras for 6 weeks just how different I was from people across the world.\n6 months later I learned (over time) just how deeply similar they are.\nAfter 2 years I came home and deeply missed Honduras. I felt alone and lost in this American world.\nNow I’m somewhere in between. But the point is: I’m grateful that humans can connect at a deeply human level no matter who they are or where they’re from.\n\n\n\nAn image from the content of this post\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m grateful for time.\nTime to live. Time to breathe. Time to eat. Time to walk. Time to sit at my computer and hope I’m making a difference in the world. Time to be with my family and realize I am.\nChildren are more affected by time than others. Time robs them of their youth, forcing them minute by minute into the world. But time is generous, equitable, and just. It’s fair to everyone. We all have time.\nBut we don’t all have the same time. Someone I know had cancer. Their time was marked. Another with cancer had their marking erased. Another on a bike passed out mid ride; time ran out. Another on a hill whose time was almost out recovered quickly. Time.\nAnd I’m grateful for that time is temporary. (The Dove (Forevermore))\n\n\n\nTime is measured by the sands of the beach, but the sands don’t measure time\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.html", - "href": "scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.html", - "title": "Ephesians 6.10–18", + "objectID": "scriptures/luke-7.36-38.html", + "href": "scriptures/luke-7.36-38.html", + "title": "Luke 7.36–38", "section": "", - "text": "10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;\n\nSee Ephesians 6.10–18\n\n10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;\n\nSee Ephesians 6.10–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.\n\nSee Luke 7.36–38\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 11.7", + "objectID": "scriptures/moses-6.31-32.html", + "href": "scriptures/moses-6.31-32.html", + "title": "Moses 6.31–32", "section": "", - "text": "7 And behold this thing shall be given unto thee for a sign, that after thou hast beheld the tree which bore the fruit which thy father tasted, thou shalt also behold a man descending out of heaven, and him shall ye witness; and after ye have witnessed him ye shall bear record that it is the Son of God.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 11.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "31 And when Enoch had heard these words, he bowed himself to the earth, before the Lord, and spake before the Lord, saying: Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad, and all the people hate me; for I am slow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant? 32 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Go forth and do as I have commanded thee, and no man shall pierce thee.\n\nSee Moses 6.31–32\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 4.1", + "objectID": "scriptures/mark-15.46.html", + "href": "scriptures/mark-15.46.html", + "title": "Mark 15.46", "section": "", - "text": "for behold he is mightier than all the earth, then why not mightier than Laban and his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?\n\nSee 1 Nephi 4.1\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.\n\nSee Mark 15.46\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 1.5", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 10.6", "section": "", - "text": "Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 1.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Wherefore, all mankind were in a lost and in a fallen state, and ever would be save they should rely on this Redeemer.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 10.6\n\nWherefore, all mankind were in a lost and in a fallen state, and ever would be save they should rely on this Redeemer.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 10.6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.html", - "href": "scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.html", - "title": "Matthew 16.24–26", + "objectID": "scriptures/revelation-3.16.html", + "href": "scriptures/revelation-3.16.html", + "title": "Revelation 3.16", "section": "", - "text": "24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?\n\nSee Matthew 16.24–26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.\n\nSee Revelation 3.16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.html", - "href": "scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.html", - "title": "Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem", + "objectID": "scriptures/john-15.26.html", + "href": "scriptures/john-15.26.html", + "title": "John 15.26", "section": "", - "text": "A natural effect of His immortal origin, as the earth-born Son of an immortal Sire, was that He was immune to death except as He surrendered thereto. The life of Jesus the Christ could not be taken save as He willed and allowed. The power to lay down His life was inherent in Himself, as was the power to take up His slain body in an immortalized state.\n\nSee Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:\n\nSee John 15.26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/john-14.16-18.html", - "href": "scriptures/john-14.16-18.html", - "title": "John 14.16–18", + "objectID": "scriptures/john-10.17-18.html", + "href": "scriptures/john-10.17-18.html", + "title": "John 10.17–18", "section": "", - "text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.\n\nSee John 14.16–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.\n\nSee John 10.17–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "did talk with them as he stood in a cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.\n\nSee Ether 2.5\n\nAnd it came to pass that the Lord commanded them that they should go forth into the wilderness, yea, into that quarter where there never had man been. And it came to pass that the Lord did go before them, and did talk with them as he stood in a cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.\n\nSee Ether 2.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And whoso doeth this shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, by the laying on of the hands of the elders of the church.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 49.14\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.\n\nSee 1 Kings 19.11–12\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "8 And she spake, saying: Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath commanded my husband to flee into the wilderness; yea, and I also know of a surety that the Lord hath protected my sons, and delivered them out of the hands of Laban, and given them power whereby they could accomplish the thing which the Lord hath commanded them.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I know that I am a visionary man; for if I had not seen the things of God in a vision I should not have known the goodness of God, but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished with my brethren. 5 But behold, I have obtained a land of promise, in the which things I do rejoice; yea, and I know that the Lord will deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban, and bring them down again unto us in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.4–5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And they said unto me: What meaneth the rod of iron which our father saw, that led to the tree? 24 And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction. 25 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I possessed, that they would give heed to the word of God and remember to keep his commandments always in all things.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 15.23–25\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord said unto him: Look upon the ball, and behold the things which are written.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 16.26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/moses-5.58.html", - "href": "scriptures/moses-5.58.html", - "title": "Moses 5.58", + "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.html", + "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.html", + "title": "‘Make Time for the Lord’, Russell M. Nelson", "section": "", - "text": "And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the beginning, being declared by holy angels sent forth from the presence of God, and by his own voice, and by the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Moses 5.58\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The voices and pressures of the world are engaging and numerous. But too many voices are deceptive, seductive, and can pull us off the covenant path. To avoid the inevitable heartbreak that follows, I plead with you today to counter the lure of the world by making time for the Lord in your life—each and every day. If\n\nSee “Make Time for the Lord”, Russell M. Nelson\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Articles of Faith 1.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.html", - "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.html", - "title": "“The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?”, Russell M. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters. 8 And under this head ye are made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free. There is no other name given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of your lives.\n\nSee Mosiah 5.7–8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord; and after I had prayed the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 18.21\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.\n\nSee Matthew 16.15–17\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "did murmur in many things against their father, because he was a visionary man\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.11\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "For it came to pass after I had desired to know the things that my father had seen, and believing that the Lord was able to make them known unto me, as I sat pondering in mine heart I was caught away in the Spirit of the Lord, yea, into an exceedingly high mountain, which I never had before seen, and upon which I never had before set my foot.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 11.1\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it.\n\nSee Alma 32.16–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 32.9\n\nye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 32.9\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "resurrection. 7 And now I would inquire what becometh of the souls of men from this time of death to the time appointed for the resurrection? 8 Now whether there is more than one time appointed for men to rise it mattereth not; for all do not die at once, and this mattereth not; all is as one day with God, and time only is measured unto men. 9 Therefore, there is a time appointed unto men that they shall rise from the dead; and there is a space between the time\n\nSee Alma 40.6–9\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.\n\nSee Deuteronomy 21.22–23\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 13.37\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.html", - "href": "scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.html", - "title": "18. 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Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I say unto thee, Peter, this was a good desire; but my beloved has desired that he might do more, or a greater work yet among men than what he has before done. 6 Yea, he has undertaken a greater work; therefore I will make him as flaming fire and a ministering angel; he shall minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation who dwell on the earth.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 7.5–6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/moroni-10.4.html", - "href": "scriptures/moroni-10.4.html", - "title": "moroni-10.4", + "objectID": "scriptures/mosiah-27.14.html", + "href": "scriptures/mosiah-27.14.html", + "title": "Mosiah 27.14", "section": "", - "text": "And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Moroni 10.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Behold, the Lord hath heard the prayers of his people, and also the prayers of his servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has prayed with much faith concerning thee that thou mightest be brought to the knowledge of the truth; therefore, for this purpose have I come to convince thee of the power and authority of God, that the prayers of his servants might be answered according to their faith.\n\nSee Mosiah 27.14\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.\n\nSee Matthew 12.40\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.\n\nSee John 14.25–26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "the other plates are for the more part of the reign of the kings and the wars and contentions of my people.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 9.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.\n\nSee Alma 34.26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.\n\nSee Leviticus 19.18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/hope-of-israel.html", - "href": "scriptures/hope-of-israel.html", - "title": "Hope of Israel", + "objectID": "scriptures/mark-4.31-32.html", + "href": "scriptures/mark-4.31-32.html", + "title": "Mark 4.31–32", "section": "", - "text": "Anytime you do anything that helps anyone—on either side of the veil—take a step toward making covenants with God and receiving their essential baptismal and temple ordinances, you are helping to gather Israel. It is as simple as that.\n\nSee Hope of Israel\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.\n\nSee Mark 4.31–32\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen. 8 And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open,\n\nSee 1 Nephi 1.7–8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.\n\nSee Alma 37.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And for the space of three hours did the Lord talk with the brother of Jared, and chastened him because he remembered not to call upon the name of the Lord.\n\nSee Ether 2.14\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And behold, ye shall meet together oft; and ye shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid them not;\n\nSee 3 Nephi 18.22\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.html", - "href": "scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.html", - "title": "“The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power”, Dale G. Renlund", + "objectID": "scriptures/alma-18.26-28.html", + "href": "scriptures/alma-18.26-28.html", + "title": "alma-18.26-28", "section": "", - "text": "opportunity to benefit from the Savior’s atoning power to the payload that a rocket delivers. Because of His atoning sacrifice,\n\nSee “The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power”, Dale G. Renlund\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "26 And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? 27 And he said, Yea. 28 And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth?\n\nSee Alma 18.26–28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/the-family-proclamation.html", - "href": "scriptures/the-family-proclamation.html", - "title": "The Family Proclamation", + "objectID": "scriptures/jacob-6.8.html", + "href": "scriptures/jacob-6.8.html", + "title": "Jacob 6.8", "section": "", - "text": "By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families.\n\nSee The Family Proclamation\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Behold, will ye reject these words? Will ye reject the words of the prophets; and will ye reject all the words which have been spoken concerning Christ, after so many have spoken concerning him; and deny the good word of Christ, and the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and quench the Holy Spirit, and make a mock of the great plan of redemption, which hath been laid for you?\n\nSee Jacob 6.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.\n\nSee John 16.7\n\nNevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.\n\nSee John 16.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.\n\nSee John 19.36\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Acts 10.45\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 6.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And I, Nephi, did go into the mount oft, and I did pray oft unto the Lord; wherefore the Lord showed unto me great things.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 18.3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.html", - "href": "scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.html", - "title": "2 Nephi 32.8", + "objectID": "scriptures/john-20.22.html", + "href": "scriptures/john-20.22.html", + "title": "John 20.22", "section": "", - "text": "for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 32.8\n\nAnd now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.\n\nSee Luke 7.39\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And now, if ye have choice, go up to the land, and remember the words which I speak unto you, that if ye go ye will also perish; for thus the Spirit of the Lord constraineth me that I should speak. 16 And it came to pass that when I, Nephi, had spoken these words unto my brethren, they were angry with me. And it came to pass that they did lay their hands upon me, for behold, they were exceedingly wroth, and they did bind me with cords, for they sought to take away my life, that they might leave me in the wilderness to be devoured by wild beasts.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 7.15–16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\n\nSee Matthew 7.3\n\nwhy beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\n\nSee Matthew 7.3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.html", - "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.html", - "title": "“Think Celestial!”, Russell M. 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Nelson\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Verily, I say unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts, there must needs be presiding elders to preside over those who are of the office of an elder; 61 And also priests to preside over those who are of the office of a priest; 62 And also teachers to preside over those who are of the office of a teacher, in like manner, and also the deacons\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 107.60–62\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And he left them, and departed.\n\nSee Matthew 16.1–4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.20\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 58.28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.html", - "href": "scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.html", - "title": "testimony-of-eight-witnesses", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 3.31", "section": "", - "text": "And we give our names unto the world, to witness unto the world that which we have seen. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "that they may have his Spirit to be with them.\n\nSee Moroni 5.2\n\nthat they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them.\n\nSee Moroni 5.2\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/alma-32.34-36.html", - "href": "scriptures/alma-32.34-36.html", - "title": "alma-32.34-36", + "objectID": "scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.html", + "href": "scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.html", + "title": "2 Nephi 2.7", "section": "", - "text": "and your mind doth begin to expand. 35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect? 36 Behold I say unto\n\nSee Alma 32.34–36\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 2.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Following a person’s baptism into the true Church of Jesus Christ, he receives the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands from one who has the proper authority\n\nSee Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nWhile someone is being confirmed a member of the Church, he or she is told to “receive the Holy Ghost.” The gift of the Holy Ghost is not forced on anyone. It becomes the responsibility of members to invite the Holy Ghost to be with them\n\nSee Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.html", - "href": "scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.html", - "title": "Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Therefore they hushed their fears, and began to cry unto the Lord that he would soften the hearts of the Lamanites,\n\nSee Mosiah 23.28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came unto my father; and he was truly chastened because of his murmuring against the Lord, insomuch that he was brought down into the depths of sorrow.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 16.25\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.2\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 15.24\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And whoso having faith you shall confirm in my church, by the laying on of the hands, and I will bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost upon them.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 33.15\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us, that while we did live upon raw meat in the wilderness, our women did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea, even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings without murmurings. 3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 17.2–3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/exodus-12.46.html", - "href": "scriptures/exodus-12.46.html", - "title": "Exodus 12.46", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 2.4", "section": "", - "text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.\n\nSee Exodus 12.46\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him,\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "christianity.html", - "href": "christianity.html", - "title": "Christianity", + "objectID": "creative.html", + "href": "creative.html", + "title": "Creative", "section": "", - "text": "Christianity is life. It’s a way of living. It’s an aspiration to follow the beattitudes, to be kind when others are harsh, to be calm when the storm is raging. These posts reflect my desire to reflect His light in every day living, through both study and application.\nI’m a Christian, which means I believe in a Savior and Messiah who was born miraculously, lived perfectly, gave His life selflessly, and resurrected divinely so that there’s hope in this life for all of us. He was the perfect example of how to treat everyone with kindness, respect, and decency. He also taught his students how to think deeply, lead unconventionally, and live life with selfless purpose. His life is filled with a richness worth studying.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nstrength\n\n\ntrust in the Lord\n\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nhand of the Lord\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBread in the Oven\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHe was laid in a tomb and rose again, as promised. I can trust His promises. I can keep mine to Him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBread given freely, like His life\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHe freely gave His life, and all I have to do is the little bit that’s my part\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-dress\n\n\n\nWe show up to church in our Sunday best, and He accepts us when we want to give our sacrifices of time, heart, and soul to Him\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBroken Bread, but No Broken Bones\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHis persecutors helped fulfill a prophecy without knowing it. How am I likewise ignorant of His hand in my life?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPorous Bread\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nThe pores in bread remind me of the pores that let blood for me\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nobedience\n\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReceive the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nsymbol-receive\n\n\n\nAnd not the gift of the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nlove\n\n\nlove of God\n\n\nagency\n\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArchitecture Reminds Me of His Cross\n\n\n\nsacrament symbol\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nsymbol-cross\n\n\n\nThe beam supporting the dome of my church reminds me of the cross He bore\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVaulted Ceilings\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nsacrament symbol\n\n\nsymbol-architecture\n\n\n\nThe vaulted ceilings of a chapel where sacrament is performed reminds me of the purpose of the sacrament: to help us return to Him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 31, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 27, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 27, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 17, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "text": "Creative writing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCuddles\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nNever ending cuddles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlow Blink\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nbabies\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nMakes you think: what are they thinking?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStairwell scoop\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\n\nA descend of Everest.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBound\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nEternal bonds\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLint\n\n\n\nbabies\n\n\nparenting\n\n\npoem\n\n\ncreative\n\n\n\na poem on lint\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Thief of Time\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\ntime\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nperspective\n\n\ndeep thought\n\n\n\nTime is a gift and a curse.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRed eyed\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\ndeep thought\n\n\nfunny\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nhypothetical\n\n\nangle of vision\n\n\n\nHow can I convince you this is a good idea?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCabinet Handle\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nbabies\n\n\n\nA baby can see what we cannot.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dove (Forevermore)\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\npoetry\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nThe phases of parenting, inspired by “The Raven”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeless\n\n\n\npoem\n\n\npoetry\n\n\nparenting\n\n\ncreative\n\n\n\nA poem.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", "crumbs": [ "Writing", - "Christianity" + "Creative" ] }, { @@ -1579,7 +1611,7 @@ "href": "index.html#recent-thoughts", "title": "Blog", "section": "Recent Thoughts", - "text": "Recent Thoughts\nPosts on tech and spurious thoughts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\nIndex your local files and chat with them\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGPT4All\n\n\nRun LLMs locally\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\nRun OpenAI in a native Mac App\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat startups and musicians have in common\n\n\nA recently signed Artist is their own startup\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nReading\nSee more books and my reading list.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nErnest Hemingway\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nJacob Ward\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\nRobert Cialdini\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nWilliam Esterly\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\nHis story.\n\n\n\nMatthew McConaughey\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\nHugh Howey\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\nGreg Lukianoff\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\nDale Carnegie\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nAdam Smith\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nHumphrey Carpenter\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he…\n\n\n\nThomas Sowell\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth…\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nGratitude\nSee more gratitude.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Compliments\n\n\nThey’re financially cheap, but when sincere are incredibly valuable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball\n\n\nIt brings people together, and many people can contribute in their own way\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for YouTube\n\n\nAnd for everything I’ve learned on it\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rescue Workers\n\n\nWe in America have hundreds of people ready to help us at a moment’s notice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Imagination\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chirping Birds\n\n\nI’m grateful for the time of day and time of year they make their presence known.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 27, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rock Climbing\n\n\nBecause I’m still alive, and I had fun.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Perspectives\n\n\nNever know when you’re gonna break a bone. But sometimes it’s a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Challenges\n\n\nLife has a way of refining us. But isn’t refinement what we seek?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers\n\n\nThe freedoms I enjoy come at the sacrifices of those who came before\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Early Morning Workouts\n\n\nIt was good then, and the effects have been lifelong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Similarities\n\n\nWe’re all very similar in many ways\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Social Gatherings\n\n\nHumans are made for social gatherings, whether you’re introverted or not\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nChristianity\nA Life worth following. Read more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items", + "text": "Recent Thoughts\nPosts on tech and spurious thoughts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\nIndex your local files and chat with them\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGPT4All\n\n\nRun LLMs locally\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\nRun OpenAI in a native Mac App\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nReading\nSee more books and my reading list.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nErnest Hemingway\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nJacob Ward\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\nRobert Cialdini\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nWilliam Esterly\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\nHis story.\n\n\n\nMatthew McConaughey\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\nHugh Howey\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\nGreg Lukianoff\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\nDale Carnegie\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nAdam Smith\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nHumphrey Carpenter\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he…\n\n\n\nThomas Sowell\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth…\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nGratitude\nSee more gratitude.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Compliments\n\n\nThey’re financially cheap, but when sincere are incredibly valuable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball\n\n\nIt brings people together, and many people can contribute in their own way\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for YouTube\n\n\nAnd for everything I’ve learned on it\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rescue Workers\n\n\nWe in America have hundreds of people ready to help us at a moment’s notice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Imagination\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chirping Birds\n\n\nI’m grateful for the time of day and time of year they make their presence known.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 27, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rock Climbing\n\n\nBecause I’m still alive, and I had fun.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Perspectives\n\n\nNever know when you’re gonna break a bone. But sometimes it’s a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Challenges\n\n\nLife has a way of refining us. But isn’t refinement what we seek?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers\n\n\nThe freedoms I enjoy come at the sacrifices of those who came before\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Early Morning Workouts\n\n\nIt was good then, and the effects have been lifelong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Similarities\n\n\nWe’re all very similar in many ways\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Social Gatherings\n\n\nHumans are made for social gatherings, whether you’re introverted or not\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nChristianity\nA Life worth following. Read more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items", "crumbs": [ "Blog" ] @@ -1615,1052 +1647,1027 @@ ] }, { - "objectID": "creative.html", - "href": "creative.html", - "title": "Creative", + "objectID": "christianity.html", + "href": "christianity.html", + "title": "Christianity", "section": "", - "text": "Creative writing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCuddles\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nNever ending cuddles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlow Blink\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nbabies\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nMakes you think: what are they thinking?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStairwell scoop\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\n\nA descend of Everest.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBound\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nEternal bonds\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLint\n\n\n\nbabies\n\n\nparenting\n\n\npoem\n\n\ncreative\n\n\n\na poem on lint\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Thief of Time\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\ntime\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nperspective\n\n\ndeep thought\n\n\n\nTime is a gift and a curse.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRed eyed\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\ndeep thought\n\n\nfunny\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nhypothetical\n\n\nangle of vision\n\n\n\nHow can I convince you this is a good idea?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCabinet Handle\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\nbabies\n\n\n\nA baby can see what we cannot.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dove (Forevermore)\n\n\n\ncreative\n\n\npoem\n\n\npoetry\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nThe phases of parenting, inspired by “The Raven”.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeless\n\n\n\npoem\n\n\npoetry\n\n\nparenting\n\n\ncreative\n\n\n\nA poem.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "text": "Christianity is life. It’s a way of living. It’s an aspiration to follow the beattitudes, to be kind when others are harsh, to be calm when the storm is raging. These posts reflect my desire to reflect His light in every day living, through both study and application.\nI’m a Christian, which means I believe in a Savior and Messiah who was born miraculously, lived perfectly, gave His life selflessly, and resurrected divinely so that there’s hope in this life for all of us. He was the perfect example of how to treat everyone with kindness, respect, and decency. He also taught his students how to think deeply, lead unconventionally, and live life with selfless purpose. His life is filled with a richness worth studying.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nstrength\n\n\ntrust in the Lord\n\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 30, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nhand of the Lord\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBread in the Oven\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHe was laid in a tomb and rose again, as promised. I can trust His promises. I can keep mine to Him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBread given freely, like His life\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHe freely gave His life, and all I have to do is the little bit that’s my part\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-dress\n\n\n\nWe show up to church in our Sunday best, and He accepts us when we want to give our sacrifices of time, heart, and soul to Him\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBroken Bread, but No Broken Bones\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nHis persecutors helped fulfill a prophecy without knowing it. How am I likewise ignorant of His hand in my life?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPorous Bread\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nsymbol-bread\n\n\n\nThe pores in bread remind me of the pores that let blood for me\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nobedience\n\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReceive the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\nsacrament-symbols\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nsymbol-receive\n\n\n\nAnd not the gift of the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nlove\n\n\nlove of God\n\n\nagency\n\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 18, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArchitecture Reminds Me of His Cross\n\n\n\nsacrament symbol\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nsymbol-cross\n\n\n\nThe beam supporting the dome of my church reminds me of the cross He bore\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVaulted Ceilings\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nsacrament symbol\n\n\nsymbol-architecture\n\n\n\nThe vaulted ceilings of a chapel where sacrament is performed reminds me of the purpose of the sacrament: to help us return to Him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 31, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 27, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 27, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday December 17, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", "crumbs": [ "Writing", - "Creative" + "Christianity" ] }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 2.4", - "section": "", - "text": "And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him,\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" - }, - { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 17.2–3", - "section": "", - "text": "And so great were the blessings of the Lord upon us, that while we did live upon raw meat in the wilderness, our women did give plenty of suck for their children, and were strong, yea, even like unto the men; and they began to bear their journeyings without murmurings. 3 And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 17.2–3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.\n\nSee Exodus 12.46\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 5.2", + "objectID": "scriptures/mosiah-4.9.html", + "href": "scriptures/mosiah-4.9.html", + "title": "Mosiah 4.9", "section": "", - "text": "she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.2\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.\n\nSee Mosiah 4.9\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 16.25", + "objectID": "scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.html", + "href": "scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.html", + "title": "Ephesians 4.4–6", "section": "", - "text": "And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came unto my father; and he was truly chastened because of his murmuring against the Lord, insomuch that he was brought down into the depths of sorrow.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 16.25\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.\n\nSee Ephesians 4.4–6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:\n\nSee John 19.31–33\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 6.5", + "objectID": "scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.html", + "href": "scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.html", + "title": "3 Nephi 10.4–5", "section": "", - "text": "Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 6.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "how oft have I gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and have nourished you. 5 And again, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,\n\nSee 3 Nephi 10.4–5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.html", - "href": "scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.html", - "title": "Gift of the Holy Ghost", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 8.27–28", "section": "", - "text": "It is the right of every worthy baptized member of the Church to have the constant influence of the Holy Ghost. Following a person’s baptism into the true Church of Jesus Christ, he receives the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands from one who has the proper authority\n\nSee Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nWhile someone is being confirmed a member of the Church, he or she is told to “receive the Holy Ghost.” The gift of the Holy Ghost is not forced on anyone. It becomes the responsibility of members to invite the Holy Ghost to be with them\n\nSee Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "and they were in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit. 28 And after they had tasted of the fruit they were ashamed, because of those that were scoffing at them; and they fell away into forbidden paths and were lost.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 8.27–28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.\n\nSee Mosiah 3.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/moroni-5.2.html", - "href": "scriptures/moroni-5.2.html", - "title": "Moroni 5.2", + "objectID": "scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.html", + "href": "scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.html", + "title": "Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial", "section": "", - "text": "that they may have his Spirit to be with them.\n\nSee Moroni 5.2\n\nthat they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them.\n\nSee Moroni 5.2\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The Jewish officials, who had not hesitated to slay their Lord, were horrified at the thought of men left hanging on crosses on such a day, for thereby the land would be defiled; so these scrupulous rulers went to Pilate and begged that Jesus and the two malefactors be summarily dispatched by the brutal Roman method of breaking their legs, the shock of which violent treatment had been found to be promptly fatal to the crucified. The governor gave his consent, and the soldiers broke the limbs of the two thieves with cudgels. Jesus, however, was found to be already dead, so they broke not His bones. Christ, the great Passover sacrifice, of whom all altar victims had been but suggestive prototypes, died through violence yet without a bone of His body being broken, as was a prescribed condition of the slain paschal lambs.\n\nSee Chapter 35. Death and Burial\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 3.31", + "objectID": "scriptures/ether-2.6.html", + "href": "scriptures/ether-2.6.html", + "title": "Ether 2.6", "section": "", - "text": "And after the angel had departed, Laman and Lemuel again began to murmur, saying: How is it possible that the Lord will deliver Laban into our hands? Behold, he is a mighty man, and he can command fifty, yea, even he can slay fifty; then why not us?\n\nSee 1 Nephi 3.31\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that they did travel in the wilderness, and did build barges, in which they did cross many waters, being directed continually by the hand of the Lord.\n\nSee Ether 2.6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.html", - "href": "scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.html", - "title": "Doctrine and Covenants 58.28", + "objectID": "scriptures/alma-32.34-36.html", + "href": "scriptures/alma-32.34-36.html", + "title": "alma-32.34-36", "section": "", - "text": "For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 58.28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "and your mind doth begin to expand. 35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect? 36 Behold I say unto\n\nSee Alma 32.34–36\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 2.20", + "objectID": "scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.html", + "href": "scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.html", + "title": "Doctrine and Covenants 58.27", "section": "", - "text": "And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.20\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 58.27\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And we give our names unto the world, to witness unto the world that which we have seen. And we lie not, God bearing witness of it.\n\nSee Testimony of Eight Witnesses\n\nBe it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come:\n\nSee Testimony of Eight Witnesses\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/matthew-7.3.html", - "href": "scriptures/matthew-7.3.html", - "title": "Matthew 7.3", + "objectID": "scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.html", + "href": "scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.html", + "title": "2 Nephi 28.30", "section": "", - "text": "why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\n\nSee Matthew 7.3\n\nwhy beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\n\nSee Matthew 7.3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more\n\nSee 2 Nephi 28.30\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/moroni-4.3.html", - "href": "scriptures/moroni-4.3.html", - "title": "Moroni 4.3", + "objectID": "scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.html", + "href": "scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.html", + "title": "Matthew 16.1–4", "section": "", - "text": "that they may always have his Spirit to be with them.\n\nSee Moroni 4.3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.\n\nSee Matthew 16.1–4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 7.15–16", + "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.html", + "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.html", + "title": "“Think Celestial!”, Russell M. Nelson", "section": "", - "text": "Now behold, I say unto you that if ye will return unto Jerusalem ye shall also perish with them. And now, if ye have choice, go up to the land, and remember the words which I speak unto you, that if ye go ye will also perish; for thus the Spirit of the Lord constraineth me that I should speak. 16 And it came to pass that when I, Nephi, had spoken these words unto my brethren, they were angry with me. And it came to pass that they did lay their hands upon me, for behold, they were exceedingly wroth, and they did bind me with cords, for they sought to take away my life, that they might leave me in the wilderness to be devoured by wild beasts.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 7.15–16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "As you think celestial, you will find yourself avoiding anything that robs you of your agency. Any addiction—be it gaming, gambling, debt, drugs, alcohol, anger, pornography, sex, or even food—offends God. Why? Because your obsession becomes your god. You look to it rather than to Him for solace.\n\nSee “Think Celestial!”, Russell M. Nelson\n\nAs you think celestial, you will find yourself avoiding anything that robs you of your agency. Any addiction—be it gaming, gambling, debt, drugs, alcohol, anger, pornography, sex, or even food—offends God. Why? Because your obsession becomes your god. You look to it rather than to Him for solace.\n\nSee “Think Celestial!”, Russell M. Nelson\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.\n\nSee Matthew 5.45\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that I beheld a tree, whose fruit was desirable to make one happy.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 8.10\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Go to work and build, after the manner of barges which ye have hitherto built.\n\nSee Ether 2.16\n\nbuilt barges after the manner which they had built, according to the instructions of the Lord.\n\nSee Ether 2.16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost. What\n\nSee “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives”, Russell M. Nelson\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 32.8\n\nAnd now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray, ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 32.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Verily I say unto you, ye shall both have according to your desires, for ye both joy in that which ye have desired.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 7.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "behold, I have obtained a land of promise\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.5\n\nand I know that the Lord will deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban, and bring them down again unto us in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/jacob-6.8.html", - "href": "scriptures/jacob-6.8.html", - "title": "Jacob 6.8", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 8.24", "section": "", - "text": "Behold, will ye reject these words? Will ye reject the words of the prophets; and will ye reject all the words which have been spoken concerning Christ, after so many have spoken concerning him; and deny the good word of Christ, and the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and quench the Holy Spirit, and make a mock of the great plan of redemption, which hath been laid for you?\n\nSee Jacob 6.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I beheld others pressing forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end of the rod of iron; and they did press forward through the mist of darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 8.24\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/alma-18.26-28.html", - "href": "scriptures/alma-18.26-28.html", - "title": "alma-18.26-28", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 19.10", "section": "", - "text": "26 And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? 27 And he said, Yea. 28 And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth?\n\nSee Alma 18.26–28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And the God of our fathers, who were led out of Egypt, out of bondage, and also were preserved in the wilderness by him, yea, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, yieldeth himself, according to the words of the angel, as a man, into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up, according to the words of Zenock, and to be crucified, according to the words of Neum, and to be buried in a sepulchre, according to the words of Zenos, which he spake concerning the three days of darkness, which should be a sign given of his death unto those who should inhabit the isles of the sea, more especially given unto those who are of the house of Israel.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 19.10\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.html", - "href": "scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.html", - "title": "3 Nephi 18.22", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 1.5–6", "section": "", - "text": "And behold, ye shall meet together oft; and ye shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid them not;\n\nSee 3 Nephi 18.22\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people. 6 And it came to pass as he prayed unto the Lord, there came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock before him; and he saw and heard much; and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 1.5–6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families.\n\nSee The Family Proclamation\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/alma-37.7.html", - "href": "scriptures/alma-37.7.html", - "title": "Alma 37.7", + "objectID": "scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.html", + "href": "scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.html", + "title": "“The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power”, Dale G. Renlund", "section": "", - "text": "And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.\n\nSee Alma 37.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "opportunity to benefit from the Savior’s atoning power to the payload that a rocket delivers. Because of His atoning sacrifice,\n\nSee “The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power”, Dale G. Renlund\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And now I say unto thee, Alma, go thy way, and seek to destroy the church no more, that their prayers may be answered, and this even if thou wilt of thyself be cast off.\n\nSee Mosiah 27.16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And we had obtained the records which the Lord had commanded us, and searched them and found that they were desirable; yea, even of great worth unto us, insomuch that we could preserve the commandments of the Lord unto our children.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.21\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "But now I give unto thee a commandment, that thou shalt baptize by water, and they shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, even as the apostles of old.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 35.6\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And the mists of darkness are the temptations of the devil, which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of the children of men, and leadeth them away into broad roads, that they perish and are lost.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 12.17\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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It is as simple as that.\n\nSee Hope of Israel\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.\n\nSee Numbers 9.12\n\nThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.\n\nSee Numbers 9.12\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And for this cause the Lord said unto Peter: If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 7.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in,\n\nSee Mosiah 18.9\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\n\nSee Matthew 11.28–30\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that Jared spake again unto his brother, saying: Go and inquire of the Lord whether he will drive us out of the land, and if he will drive us out of the land, cry unto him whither we shall go. And who knoweth but the Lord will carry us forth into a land which is choice above all the earth? And if it so be, let us be faithful unto the Lord, that we may receive it for our inheritance.\n\nSee Ether 1.38\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Moroni 10.4\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/alma-40.6-9.html", - "href": "scriptures/alma-40.6-9.html", - "title": "Alma 40.6–9", + "objectID": "scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.html", + "href": "scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.html", + "title": "18. 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They place their hands lightly on the person’s head. Then the one acting as voice: Calls the person by his or her full name. States that the ordinance is being performed by the authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood. Confirms the person a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. States “receive the Holy Ghost” (not “receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”). Gives words of blessing as guided by the Spirit. Closes in the name of Jesus Christ.\n\nSee 18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 25.26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.\n\nSee Matthew 6.8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 2.11", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-93.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-93.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose", "section": "", - "text": "did murmur in many things against their father, because he was a visionary man\n\nSee 1 Nephi 2.11\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I have received a commandment of the Lord that I should make these plates, for the special purpose that there should be an account engraven of the ministry of my people.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 9.3\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "16 Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe. 17 Yea, there are many who do say: If thou wilt show unto us a sign from heaven, then we shall know of a surety; then we shall believe. 18 Now I ask, is this faith? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it.\n\nSee Alma 32.16–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "For behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the Lord Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity, shall come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.\n\nSee Mosiah 3.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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There is no other name given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the end of your lives.\n\nSee Mosiah 5.7–8\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.\n\nSee Psalm 34.19–20\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 3.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.html", - "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.html", - "title": "‘Make Time for the Lord’, Russell M. Nelson", + "objectID": "scriptures/introduction.html", + "href": "scriptures/introduction.html", + "title": "Introduction", "section": "", - "text": "The voices and pressures of the world are engaging and numerous. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 16.26", + "objectID": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.html", + "href": "scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.html", + "title": "“The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?”, Russell M. Nelson", "section": "", - "text": "And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord said unto him: Look upon the ball, and behold the things which are written.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 16.26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "My dear brothers and sisters, I promise that as you prayerfully study the Book of Mormon every day, you will make better decisions—every day. I promise that as you ponder what you study, the windows of heaven will open, and you will receive answers to your own questions and direction for your own life. I promise that as you daily immerse yourself in the Book of Mormon, you can be immunized against the evils of the day, even the gripping plague of pornography and other mind-numbing addictions.\n\nSee “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?”, Russell M. Nelson\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 15.23–25", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 14.14", "section": "", - "text": "And they said unto me: What meaneth the rod of iron which our father saw, that led to the tree? 24 And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction. 25 Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I possessed, that they would give heed to the word of God and remember to keep his commandments always in all things.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 15.23–25\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 14.14\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.html", - "title": "1 Nephi 5.4–5", + "objectID": "scriptures/moses-5.58.html", + "href": "scriptures/moses-5.58.html", + "title": "Moses 5.58", "section": "", - "text": "I know that I am a visionary man; for if I had not seen the things of God in a vision I should not have known the goodness of God, but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished with my brethren. 5 But behold, I have obtained a land of promise, in the which things I do rejoice; yea, and I know that the Lord will deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban, and bring them down again unto us in the wilderness.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 5.4–5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the beginning, being declared by holy angels sent forth from the presence of God, and by his own voice, and by the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\nSee Moses 5.58\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 82.10\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.html", - "href": "scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.html", - "title": "1-kings-19.11-12", + "objectID": "scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.html", + "href": "scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.html", + "title": "2 Nephi 9.51", "section": "", - "text": "11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.\n\nSee 1 Kings 19.11–12\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy. Hearken diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken; and come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul delight in fatness.\n\nSee 2 Nephi 9.51\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "36 Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 6.36\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/ether-2.5.html", - "href": "scriptures/ether-2.5.html", - "title": "Ether 2.5", + "objectID": "scriptures/mosiah-21.15.html", + "href": "scriptures/mosiah-21.15.html", + "title": "Mosiah 21.15", "section": "", - "text": "did talk with them as he stood in a cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.\n\nSee Ether 2.5\n\nAnd it came to pass that the Lord commanded them that they should go forth into the wilderness, yea, into that quarter where there never had man been. And it came to pass that the Lord did go before them, and did talk with them as he stood in a cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.\n\nSee Ether 2.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And now the Lord was slow to hear their cry because of their iniquities; nevertheless the Lord did hear their cries\n\nSee Mosiah 21.15\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other—either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 14.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.\n\nSee Alma 32.28\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And again, it shall come to pass that on as many as ye shall baptize with water, ye shall lay your hands, and they shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and shall be looking forth for the signs of my coming, and shall know me.\n\nSee Doctrine and Covenants 39.23\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.\n\nSee John 14.16–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/mark-15.46.html", - "href": "scriptures/mark-15.46.html", - "title": "Mark 15.46", + "objectID": "scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.html", + "href": "scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.html", + "title": "Chapter 25. 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Jesus Again in Jerusalem\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/john-3.16.html", - "href": "scriptures/john-3.16.html", - "title": "John 3.16", + "objectID": "scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.html", + "href": "scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.html", + "title": "Matthew 16.24–26", "section": "", - "text": "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.\n\nSee John 3.16\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?\n\nSee Matthew 16.24–26\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/moses-6.31-32.html", - "href": "scriptures/moses-6.31-32.html", - "title": "Moses 6.31–32", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 1.5", "section": "", - "text": "31 And when Enoch had heard these words, he bowed himself to the earth, before the Lord, and spake before the Lord, saying: Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad, and all the people hate me; for I am slow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant? 32 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Go forth and do as I have commanded thee, and no man shall pierce thee.\n\nSee Moses 6.31–32\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 1.5\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "scriptures/luke-7.36-38.html", - "href": "scriptures/luke-7.36-38.html", - "title": "Luke 7.36–38", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 4.1", "section": "", - "text": "And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.\n\nSee Luke 7.36–38\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "for behold he is mightier than all the earth, then why not mightier than Laban and his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?\n\nSee 1 Nephi 4.1\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/time.html", - "href": "gratitude/time.html", - "title": "Time", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 3.2", "section": "", - "text": "I’m grateful for time.\nTime to live. Time to breathe. Time to eat. Time to walk. Time to sit at my computer and hope I’m making a difference in the world. Time to be with my family and realize I am.\nChildren are more affected by time than others. Time robs them of their youth, forcing them minute by minute into the world. But time is generous, equitable, and just. It’s fair to everyone. We all have time.\nBut we don’t all have the same time. Someone I know had cancer. Their time was marked. Another with cancer had their marking erased. Another on a bike passed out mid ride; time ran out. Another on a hill whose time was almost out recovered quickly. Time.\nAnd I’m grateful for that time is temporary. (The Dove (Forevermore))\n\n\n\nTime is measured by the sands of the beach, but the sands don’t measure time\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Behold I have dreamed a dream\n\nSee 1 Nephi 3.2\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/new-perspectives.html", - "href": "gratitude/new-perspectives.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for New Perspectives", + "objectID": "scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.html", + "href": "scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.html", + "title": "1 Nephi 11.7", "section": "", - "text": "When I was a kid, I broke my wrist. I no longer would be able to play football. It was my senior year, the year where all the magic happens. The year you prepare for. The big leagues.\nMy mom told me, “when a door closes, open a window. This if life”.\nA new perspective is an opportunity to see something that was there all along, but because of myopia you didn’t previously see it.\n\n\n\nI felt like this when I dove for the football. But I didn’t look like this because I didn’t catch it. Instead I broke my wrist.\n\n\nPerspective is realizing that senior year wasn’t any more special than the junior year where I had fun on JV. Perspective is realizing it’s just a game. Perspective is years later realizing that something I cared so much about at the time now has little value or importance in my life, and other things have far more importance to me.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "7 And behold this thing shall be given unto thee for a sign, that after thou hast beheld the tree which bore the fruit which thy father tasted, thou shalt also behold a man descending out of heaven, and him shall ye witness; and after ye have witnessed him ye shall bear record that it is the Son of God.\n\nSee 1 Nephi 11.7\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/beaches.html", - "href": "gratitude/beaches.html", - "title": "Beaches", + "objectID": "scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.html", + "href": "scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.html", + "title": "Ephesians 6.10–18", "section": "", - "text": "I’m grateful for beaches. That they exist. That they haven’t been removed. That they are places where people can go and recharge.\nAt 5pm, hundreds of people showed up to take a photo of this hydrogen blob descending to the horizon line. Why?\nBecause sunsets are cool, and so are beaches.\n\n\n\nHydrogen descending over hydrogen dioxide\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;\n\nSee Ephesians 6.10–18\n\n10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;\n\nSee Ephesians 6.10–18\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/youtube.html", - "href": "gratitude/youtube.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for YouTube", + "objectID": "gratitude/similarities.html", + "href": "gratitude/similarities.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Similarities", "section": "", - "text": "Where else can you learn how to cook, listen to a book or podcast, watch a documentary, listen to music and so much more?\nYouTube is an amazing platform that offers so much to the world for free.\n\n\n\nYouTube glorifidd\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Is there anything truly unique about any one individual? At the very least, any two people probably have eyes, ears, a mouth, and a nose. They probably have brain and a heart. Probably have fingers and toes.\nProbably have feelings. Experience love. Guilt. Shame. Anger. Resentment. Joy. Elation. Fear. Anxiety. Doubt. Faith. Fulfillment. Hope.\nThe reason why they feel these things will certainly be unique to them, but likely follow the themes of family, friends, food, shelter, fulfillment, etc.\nI learned after being in Honduras for 6 weeks just how different I was from people across the world.\n6 months later I learned (over time) just how deeply similar they are.\nAfter 2 years I came home and deeply missed Honduras. I felt alone and lost in this American world.\nNow I’m somewhere in between. 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(Maybe that’s not a scientific thing, but I feel like it is 😂).\nI’m slightly less grateful that my 16 year old self could bench more than I’ll ever again be able to bench, and run more than I’ll ever again have time to run, but perhaps I’m grateful I can challenge myself to surpass my teenage years.\n\n\n\nGet up. Get going. Get on.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/healing.html", - "href": "gratitude/healing.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Healing", + "objectID": "gratitude/cars.html", + "href": "gratitude/cars.html", + "title": "Cars", "section": "", - "text": "A scraped knee. A broken leg. A cancerous tumor. A fractured mind. Wounded soul. Torn relationship.\nHealing is possible. Thanks be to God for the gift of healing.\n\n\n\nHealing\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When’s the last time I walked 40 miles? 30? 20? 10?\nIt’s been a minute. Only 150 years ago or 200 years ago I may have done one of those maybe once a month or year.\nWhile I’m not entirely sure it’s beneficial for my health not to walk a ton every day, I’m grateful for cars.\n\nI can live far from my workplace.\nI can visit my parents in a day, today if I wanted\nI can go to the hills, take a hike, and be back to take my kids to school\nI can go get groceries.\n\nMaybe life was simpler back in the days without cars, I’m not sure. But I’m grateful for the variety of life I can live with a car. 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I couldn’t help but think of those many years of one-on-one conversations with my mom.\nSpending time just sitting and talking can be the best time we have to share. It can be something as simple as a boring haircut.\n\n\n\nTime together is time not apart\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Plop them in, buckle them up. Go on a run, give them a cup.\n\nStrollers are how I take my kids to school every day. I strap them in (or they just sit down), and I hop on my Onewheel and we go on a ride.\n10 m.p.h., the wind in our hair, the cars waiting behind us because we’re fast enough and wide enough that they can’t pass us. All of this is good.\nMy kids get to see more of the world faster, even if that world is just here to school. My non-school kids can get out for a minute without a huge hassle on my part.\nThe best part is: the stroller rolls. I don’t have to drag it. I don’t have to slog it. It’s not a 50lb brick. It’s got wheels. The marvelous creation of the near frictionless geometric phenomena that is a wheel.\nSo I guess I’m also grateful for wheels and chariots. Thank you to whomever invented these things thousands of years ago.\n\n\n\nA chariot stroller\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/good-books.html", - "href": "gratitude/good-books.html", - "title": "Good Books", + "objectID": "gratitude/social-gatherings.html", + "href": "gratitude/social-gatherings.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Social Gatherings", "section": "", - "text": "I’m grateful for good books. They take time. They take effort. They’re art (I’m grateful for artists). I’m finishing Dune right now and I can’t imagine how long and how arduous the task must have been. They say it took Herbert six years, but many years in addition thinking about it. It’s powerfully creative, and has set the tone for science fiction for the next 60 years.\nI’m grateful people can be so powerfully curious, intelligent, motivated, and capable to create such a book. Humans can do incredible things.\n\n\n\nBooks are only enjoyed if read\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "This week I went to a tiny venue concert. The person who invited me said, “Can you believe that just two years ago we were forbidden to gather like this?”\nWe were listening to a Honky Tonk/Rockability Banjo jammer who just absolutely slayed the whole night. The energy was off the charts. Everyone was dancing and having a great time.\nI’m glad and grateful we can get together again.\n\n\n\nBuckle up\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/rescue-workers.html", - "href": "gratitude/rescue-workers.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Rescue Workers", + "objectID": "gratitude/compliments.html", + "href": "gratitude/compliments.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Compliments", "section": "", - "text": "Just read a book about the true “heroes” of this world with my kids. It illustrated the many perils that members of the coast guard, police department, fire department, and health care workers and such face.\nI think about the souls who lost their lives trying to save victims of 9/11. I think about someone close to me who was flown on a helicopter to another hospital and saved there. I think about a friend in high school who was carted away in an ambulance because they collapsed right on the ground during the middle of a game.\nWe have an amazing response team in America. The fact that anyone can pick up their phone and dial 3 numbers and get help within 5 minutes from people trained to help is pretty incredible. It’s a safety net we don’t appreciate until we need it. And many in the world live without it.\n\n\n\nHelp is on the way!\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m grateful for compliments. The ones I receive and the ones I can give.\nThe cheapest thing you can give someone is a compliment. Yet it may be the most valuable gift to be given.\nI’m reading Influence The Psychology of Persuasion which talks about “reciprocity”. People feel someone obligated to help you when you give them something, even if it’s nominal. Isn’t a compliment a gift?\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People also discusses the benefits of being kind, and putting yourself in another’s shoes. Kindness far exceeds the benefits of criticism. A compliment is a way to think about what that person may want to hear and to give them that. Not in an insincere way, but in a sincere way.\nPeople act how they want to be treated. If they show up to play basketball they want to be told they’re good at basketball. If they work on a task for you, it’s because they want to be told they’re good at that task. It doesn’t hurt to be nice. To give a compliment. So give away.\nBeing human is recognizing what other people aspire for and recognize that goodness in them. So notice. Notice what they’re after. Then give. Give freely, for so did He (Bread given freely, like His life).\n\n\n\nGiving a compliment is giving life to someone\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/audiobooks.html", - "href": "gratitude/audiobooks.html", - "title": "Audiobooks", + "objectID": "gratitude/chirping-birds.html", + "href": "gratitude/chirping-birds.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Chirping Birds", "section": "", - "text": "When I first discovered audiobooks it felt like a super power. I can listen while working out, while doing dishes, while folding laundry, etc. the possibilities! Then came Libby, the app that allows me to connect to my local library and do what?! Download audiobooks?! Yes plz.\nIn 2023 I got back into podcasts. Lots of All-in listening, a lot of Tim Ferris again, some Huberman, etc.\nDespite fascinating interviews that tell the story of now, the benefit of a book is that it’s hundreds if not thousands of hours of mental preparation, editing, preparing. Why wouldn’t I want to read something that someone spent thousands of hours curating vs them just spitballing for 60m.\nSome podcasts can tell a different story than you can get in a book, or tell the backstory, etc. but they’re usually on a podcast to get you to read the book!!\nThank you to the writers, and to all readers who give them an audience and a livelihood so they’ll keep writing.\n\n\n\nBoring chores are now some of my favorite parts of the day\n\n\nSee reading-ethos\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Been hearing some birds chirp lately. It’s still January but around where I live it’s practically spring.\nOn early morning hikes I can sometimes hear the birds waking up. Sometimes a tree will be full of the little chirpers.\nWhy do birds sing? Why do they like singing more in the late winter, or after a rain storm? It’s a calming reassurance that we’ve all been hunkered down during a storm and are relieved to see the sun.\nMaybe it’s the beady eyes, the quick twitch of the head and neck, the instinctual liftoff when you get too close…maybe that’s why I like them. They’re just cool. Birds are cool.\n\n\n\nThe green and the birds make a great combo\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Thats a cool thing too: collective community makes so many things possible, like downtown restaurants and museums - places that if they relied just on me they’d never last. But the community keeps them afloat (pun?).\nI tried finding it, but this is the closest thing I could find. Just imagine this very old guy out there shlepping 55 gallon drums of water.\n\n\nI found it!\n\nIt’s just become a way of life. If I don’t do the rink I don’t feel right.\n\n\nWhat a guy.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Open source software is incredible. I’m deeply grateful for the people who create it and share it.\nSo much of the world benefits from open source software. YouTube was built off Python. Samsung phones run on Android. Most modern websites are built off something Zuckerberg released. PyTorch and Tensorflow have ushered in the AI revolution.\nWe’d get along without open source. But we’d be using SAS or Stata, beholden to Oracle and Java everywhere and just enduring a slow pace of innovation.\nAI is open sourced. The future is now.\n\n\n\nOpen source as a person, according to ClosedAI\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.html", - "href": "gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand", + "objectID": "gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.html", + "href": "gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers", "section": "", - "text": "I don’t know about or understand a lot of things. Here’s a random list:\n\nmolecular biology\nbrain surgery\nShakespeare\nDiplomacy between nations\nBest teaching methods for four year olds\nHow the heater in my house works\nHow Apple Silicon works\nA lot of data science stuff despite working as a data scientist for 10 years\n\nThe thing with knowledge is that the more you get of it, the more questions you have about the world. It was kind of hard even making that list above because I know enough to know that I don’t know enough about it. What about all the things I know nothing about. Or scarier, what about the things I think I know something about but really don’t.\nAll these things mean there’s something to be learned on every day, every minute. The world is full. We are all multi-faceted individuals who can do a ton of different things. Perhaps often we compare ourselves to those who know most about a subject vs the value and opportunity we bring with the unique set of knowledge each of us has accumulated.\nI’m grateful I’m usually wrong. It means there’s a better way. And if things turned out okay and I’m wrong, that’s even better: it means I can improve!\nI’m grateful I’m able to learn from anyone on earth, who at least has a guaranteed different life experience and set of knowledge gained. I’m also grateful that everyone else is as imperfect as me, which means I can challenge them to figure out how they came to their knowledge and whether their knowledge is actually that or just a belief/opinion/etc.\nAll of this is fun, gives diversity to life, lets me know that there’s hope for a better world.\n\n\n\nLearning from brains that learn from books written by brains\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "My daughter brought home a book that introduced something I had never before heard about: Navajo code talkers.\nSince the Navajo language had never been written down, it wasn’t able to be translated by the Japanese in WWII. And so, the Navajo would encode English words and transmit their words across the radio to talk about positions and bombs and such. It helped them win the war.\nThey chose to serve a country they were being heavily persecuted in (Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI). It’s incredible to think about.\nI’m grateful for them and all like them that helped provide the freedoms I enjoy.\n\n\n\nCode talker on the radio\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Perhaps a blanket is the towel’s cousin.\nMy grandma loved to quilt, so me and all my family have hand crafted blankets. Even great grandchildren have blankets long after my grandma deceased because she had a surplus in her basement.\nThere’s something special about being wrapped in something warm, especially if it’s made by someone who loves you. Kinda sends a special hug in a way that a towel just can’t.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m grateful for people who really know how to sing. This song moved me, and I’m grateful music has that capacity.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Everyone has uniquely experienced a unique combination of things. Therefore, when they synthesize those things, they become like a little Da Vinci.\nNo, this isn’t the Mona Lisa. But it doesn’t have to be to be meaningful and powerful. Even if it only reaches 536 YouTube subscribers.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I installed 72 lights today. This took drilling a hole into my fence, then making the cord taught, then screwing the screw into the cord’s loopy thingy. Then I move on to the next one.\nThe whole process took three hours. But I’m glad it took three hours. I appreciate it so much more because I did it myself. I thought carefully about each hole I drilled.\nAnd it felt good to sit out there and listen to an audio book (lots of Dune today, some Killers of the Flower Moon).\nI’m grateful for Thomas Edison. For the inspiration he received, for the hard work he did to give the gift of light to the world. And if he hadn’t done it someone else would have, which is also something to be grateful for. There are a lot of smart, good people on this earth.\n\n\n\nNot what it looks like, but how it feels\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Surely they weren’t the first video service, but they build off the earlier, crappier products.\nI’m grateful for V1’s like Skype that paved the way for Zoom, which learned a ton, probably poached some talent, and gave me something with using.\n\n\n\nBeethoven Zooming with friends, ala Caravaggio\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "gratitude/toothbrush.html", - "href": "gratitude/toothbrush.html", - "title": "I’m Grateful for the Toothbrush", + "objectID": "gratitude/heaven.html", + "href": "gratitude/heaven.html", + "title": "I’m Grateful for Heaven", "section": "", - "text": "Is there anything more refreshing than brushing your teeth? Anything less satisfying than going to bed without brushing your teeth (camping, airplane ride?)?\nBrushing my teeth is a gift. And I know it prevents problems (cavities, disease, etc). It also enables me to have more sugar, which is probably bad for me but I enjoy regardless.\nIn The Power of Habit and learned about this great fact about tooth brushing (summarized by ChatGPT):\n\nYes, “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg does mention toothpaste. The book discusses how toothpaste companies, particularly Pepsodent, leveraged the power of habit to increase their product’s usage. Duhigg explains how Pepsodent created a daily habit for people by associating the use of toothpaste with the tingling sensation it produces, which wasn’t common in toothpastes before Pepsodent. This case study is used to illustrate how cues and rewards can create lasting habits.\n\nPepsodent and their marketing team in the 1920’s changed life for us all. Same goes for body wash, hand soap, and other soaps - they put the bubbles in them to make us think it’s “working”.\nBut I also like bubbles. Who doesn’t like bubbles? Toothpaste has bubbles. What a gift.\n\n\n\nFamily bonding through bubbling refreshment since the 1920s\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m not sure what I would do if I didn’t have a concept of Heaven in my mind. It yields so very many benefits for me:\n\nGives me hope for when family members pass\nReminds me why life matters: I can only take with me my relationships.\nHeaven is about people, not money. Reminds me what matters in life and what will bring me happiness.\nGives me purpose as I raise my family.\n\nI have a sense that heaven is more like a peaceful home than a luxurious resort. Physical amenities don’t yield joy. True pleasure and enduring happiness in life come from inner peace.\n\n\n\nMy heavenly home would probably be more spruced up, but this is pretty peaceful.\n\n\nAs a concept alone, it guides you to make better decisions by living long term: death is only a door to the beyond. Even if I assume that heaven is a farce, still believing in it yields so much good for one’s life. But thankfully it’s not just some notion. It’s a real place. I’m grateful the Lord created the heavens.\n\nBelieve in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. 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The joy they feel at make believe Disneyland (the playground) and real Disneyland is in many degrees the same.\nThis is all because of their imagination. I’m grateful to have kids show me the many uses for a boring twig: a wand; a walking stick; a s’mores roaster; a knob to open a secret gate to the house; a portal to another world…\n\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I won the childhood lottery. I had good parents, good siblings, good friends, and luckily made a few good choices.\nThat’s all it takes: a few good choices. I credit my parents for giving me a good home to grow up in, a good religion to teach me good principles, and a lot of support.\nAs I grow older, time reveals itself. The dust under the childhood cushion is now identified. As I raise my own children I wonder: how did they do it?\nWhich perhaps is what my children will ask me someday.\n\n\n\nChildhood is playing\n\n\nI’m grateful I played a lot.\nI’m grateful for parents who take up the challenge to raise the next generation. I’m grateful for siblings to live, love, and learn from. For friends who make the journey an adventure, and for a family that I can always come back to.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And I think it’s really cool that humans all over the world understand this power.\n\n\n\nAt some point you wanted to be this guy or girl, admit it.\n\n\n\nReminds me as well of a close friend who wrote an album when a loved one passed away. Those were some of the most beautiful lyrics and music I had ever heard. Sometimes the best music comes from nobodies, including yourself.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "In my deli this morning (I’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops), there’s a cheesy quote on the pinboard:\n\nMaturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start appreciating the small things…\n\nThis is why I’ve started to give thanks daily. It’s a powerful rewiring of the brain.\n\nAnd the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls. Alma 37.7\n\nEffects so far of giving thanks daily:\n\nI think about what I gave thanks on later in the day\nWhile writing, ideas flood into the mind, building the thoughts more than initially realized\nit hones my mind to prepare ahead and think about something. What I write about I think about: before and after.\nIt’s fun to blog about things as they happen, such as I’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops.\n\nI learned once on my mission that “when I don’t have gratitude, I don’t have anything.” I remember the day I learned this, discussing the concept with my roommate/companion. Those who don’t give thanks end up complaining. If you’re complaining then you don’t have anything you want. If you give thanks, you have everything you could want. 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Italians and their amazing propensity for delicious food and sandwiches seemed to flood the streets.\nA brilliant chicken salad melt that truly melts in your mouth.\nA chicken parm from D corner deli that would energize you from lunch through dinner - a classic among rabid pubescent football players.\nAdding “con papas” to any “BEC” meant you were in for a filling treat. It was the insider’s secret menu item, and the man behind the counter knew you had good taste.\n\n\n\nThe papas were on the sandwich tho. Thats how it’s done\n\n\nWhat happy memories.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "An eyeball\n\n\nThere are several reasons why I’m grateful for eyes:\n\nThey’re fun to look at. Ever look at a newborn’s eyes? Your significant other’s?\nThey interpret light. 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Time away. I’m grateful that by taking time away, my brain resets. Now I’m more energized to tackle the day.\nWhy is rest necessary? I don’t know. But it is. Bodies need sleep. Minds need breaks.\nI find that the mind is easier to overrule than a tired body. Why? Why can we push our brains more than is healthy for them? It’s hard to answer, but only rest tells us where our mind can be.\n\n\n\nResting in an abstract and surrealistic way\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "My dad grew up on a sheep farm. And his dad grew up farming too. Same with his dad, all the way back to when dads were a thing.\nOne of my grand/great grands worked on a beet farm. I read a story once about the beet farmers by Jay Jensen. 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Don’t let it trick you into walking into catacombs\n\nThe Masque of the Red Death:\n\nfruitless to avoid it\nallegory of phases of life\nPrince Prospero tries to fight death, but dies in the process\n\nThe Raven\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Storytelling - I love how he speaks a thought, then follows up with reality. Like “come on, catch the hook” “but the hook did not catch” - Repetitive words used in new ways evoke new meaning - Keep it simple. Mark Cuban Mogul Support - don’t use a big word when a simpler one will do. He evokes strong emotion without much fanciful language. - Your mind fills in the blanks. He encodes the intuition of 50 years of fishing in plain words. “I’ve got enough line…” is not a calculation. 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Great book.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Principles and Core Insights\nAfter 21% my takeaways are:\n\n“My mind is weighed down by all of the ideas of things I can do.” I waste my time on todos that are just “go to doctor”, but should be “schedule appointment to go to doctor”. Anything that only takes 2 min should be done immediately. Anything longer later. But I love that clarity - I’ve often written lots of todos but not from the “next action to take” perspective.\n“Visions can be built from the ground up rather than just top down.” I’ve tried writing down big visions for my 10 year future and it never works for me. I’ve got anxiety when I try to think where I want to be in 10 years. I mean, I know I want to be happy, be best friends with my wife and kids and have meaningful relationships but whether I’m still a data scientist or a farmer by then is anyones guess. (I wanna keep my options open.) But as I look at the things on my todo list and “eventual” to do list, a different picture emerges. I know I want to be a writer (hence this blog), I know I want to travel to XYZ location, to be involved in giving back, etc. TLDR: I know things I want to experience in life. I don’t have to craft value statements and invent ideas of what to do (seems forced). Instead I can reflect on what’s currently exciting and important to me and categorize those things into high levels values/missions. This will help me when I need to prioritize so not every whim of an idea gets my attention.\nGTD book just lays out what a todo is. It breaks down the problem of doing things (big and small) into what they are (time sensitive, someday, etc). Whether I’ll follow the system is up for debate, but I love the ideas so far. It very much fits my naturally organized mind, but may not work for more spontaneous folks that don’t like as much structure and list keeping.\nMost of my “todos” have been “intended outcomes”, but not “next actions”. For example, I see I have “change car battery” on my list right now and “plan yosemite trip”. But these aren’t todos. I can’t organize and prioritize outcomes. I can only organize and prioritize actions, he says. Changing these to “call mechanic to book oil and battery change and identify an hour in your calendar”. And “open recreation.gov when walking around the house and find a campsite.”\nOrganize tasks around where you’ll do them. This is in line with Atomic habits which states to be hyper specific about where and when you’ll do something. “Call grandma when I get into my car tomorrow morning to go to work.” Or “take a moment at my desk during lunchtime to find a mechanic by opening Google Maps and plan an oil change. Find 1 open hour on the calendar.”\n\n\n\nPutting it into practice\nI’ve been using TickTick for my task manager, which has Lists (folders) where I can put my tasks and tags so I can label and categorize each task. Here’s my organization strategy:\n\nWhen jotting ideas write intended outcome and next action as my todo.\nTag with where I’ll do it and provide day or time it’s due (if applicable)\n\nMove each item to a respective list:\n\nASAP - there’s a useful urgency to this task (begin memo)\nEventually - there’s no urgency but I know I’ll want to do this\nSomeday maybe - no urgency and no commitment, but it’s an idea of something I want to do.\n\nTagging system: tag each item with either Work or Personal. Then within that, some meaningful themes:\n\nProjectName (work deliverable or personal project like “ImproveMyHealth”, “BuildApp”)1\nLocation (where I’ll do it). Around the house. At desk. In car. While cleaning the house, etc. this is habit stacking. Most work stuff is done at my desk.\nwhen I’ll do it. Stack with other activities. Examples: Before lunch.\nDuration (how long it takes: 1, 2, 4 hours, 5, 30min). This might be useful for planning.\n\nList system. Move from inbox to list when properly categorized. I like “Work” and “Personal” lists. I think since you can use unlimited tags, and tags can be nested in TickTick, there’s no substantive differ ne between list and tag. Not sure yet how to use the TickTick lists when tags are so useful. Lists of work and personal.\n\nIn summary:\n\nIdea/task comes.\nDocument in inbox.\nClarify the intended outcome and the next action.\nOrganize: tag. Set up reminder. Move out of inbox to list.\nReview and Prioritize: understand where these ideas will take you and choose your adventure.\nDo!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeciding Vision: As I write this, choosing a project might be a good place to insert a goal (intended outcome) as a project name. Instead of Exercise, the intended outcome is improving health. The goal is being able to run a 5k. So perhaps goal/objective is “ImproveHealth” and KR is “run 5k”. These goals can be identified by asking the 5 whys. 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The man got what he wanted, David did some more work, and the unnecessary part was finished by whomever. - Joseph’s trouble was being heavily persecuted physically. Like the Israelites. Now, physical persecution has mostly stopped and instead it’s just verbal assaults at “the church” from press and random voices on social media. The challenge of our day is to remain faithful.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.html", - "href": "book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.html", - "title": "The Wealth of Nations", + "objectID": "book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.html", + "href": "book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.html", + "title": "How to Win Friends and Influence People", "section": "", - "text": "Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "2024-01-22 - father poem. Father forgets. - bate the hook to please the fish - Tell them what they want - And how to get it - Lavish with praise. This is greater incentive than any criticism - What do they want? (Not what do I want?) “smoking will keep you from making the bball team” - Ford: put yourself in their position. Consider it. And consider your own - Consider how they’ll receive your email. They have a ton of problems. They’re overwhelmed. Don’t sell them. Teach them the benefits they’ll get. - Flattery vs appreciation - flattery is lip service. If you’re trying to convince someone to do something and you’re using flattery, then thats manipulation. And you’re prone to get angry if they don’t want to do it (kids). But if you’re sincere, you’ll find a solution - Arouse in others an eager want - Don’t tell someone an idea. Plant the seed and make them think it’s their own.\n2024-01-20 - 85% of success is in non-technical skills. Communication. - We grow far faster by rewarding good behavior than punishing bad behavior - Kids. - Futility of criticism - Ask questions. “Does your hard hat not fit properly? It will save you.” - Don’t kick a beehive if you want honey - “I don’t see how I could have done any better” - Criticism - Abraham Lincoln never sent the letter -\n\n\n\nCore ideas\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to win friends and influence people\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.html", - "href": "book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.html", - "title": "The Coddling of the American Mind", + "objectID": "book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.html", + "href": "book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.html", + "title": "The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle", "section": "", - "text": "2024-01-25\n\nus vs them thinking\nLabeling.\ncognitive distortions.\nIllogical gaps.\nTribalism. It’s within us all.\nThe rhetoric in the world affects us all. We can overcome by paying heed. But the people who probably need to read this book don’t. Same with any book: it’s never received by the people who need it most, perhaps.\nanti-fragility: don’t want you to be safe. Want you to be strong. Armor. Don’t want you to run. Want you to have the strength to overcome.\nconcept creep.\nDon’t defend the attacked.\n“rallies are sometimes in the belief in a God, but always in the belief of a devil”\n\n\n\n2024-01-23\nCBT: Emotional Reasoning, catastrophizing, labeling, Overgeneralising, black|white, mind reading, negative filtering, discounting positives, blaming\n\nEmotional reasoning. Confusing feelings with thoughts or reality is a cognitive distortion.\nCatastrophizing imagines a sequence of events. But it’s seldom true.\nOvergeneralising.\nDichotomous thinking. All or nothing thinking.\nMind reading\nLabelling. Because someone belongs to a category doesn’t mean they embody all the traits of that category.\nNegative filtering. Amplifying negative signals, so it overwhelms the positive.\nDiscounting positives. Rationalising away positive evidence as if it doesn’t count.\nBlaming.\n\n\ntribalism.\nCARE framework for responding to challenges.\nTheory: we grow through being challenged, not the opposite. We are not our feelings.\nPrinciple of charity: assume the best intent (not the worst)\nprepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid. Life is the road.\nPeople are afraid to speak up For fear of being cancelled.\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The Oxford inklings\n\n\n2024-01-16 - critique. Harsh critique. Safe space. - Get together. Review. Discuss ideas. Listen. - Freely gathered friends. Not assigned. Friends. This was important. Innovation. - Creating worlds is hard. So Tolkien told many stories within the lotr world. Same with Lewis and\n2024-01-10\n\nlong walks. Lewis would walk with Tolkien. Tolkien then wrote about a super long walk in the hobit and lotr\nLanguage is the invention of objevts or ideas. Myth is the invention about truth. #post-ideas. Get this quote\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-09 Notes:\n\nTolkien build one language and derived it for two elvish languages.\n\nSaw beauty in languages\nWord at Oxford dictionary\nPlaces like the shire were inspired by his experiences\nOrcs represent machinists and wizards the old world.\nFellowship: his friends died in the war. The Tea Club. TCBS.\nMy grandma had the “double S” club.\n\n\n“Well read” - makes you more of what you already are?\nLewis:\n\nDymer: narrative poem\n\nPlato’s republic\nDante.\n\nfriendship is to disagree. To argue the other side just\n\nowen Barfield\n\nanyhroposophical\nEvolution of consciousness\n\ncreativity is grounded, not whimsical, thinking. Even scientists would agree as they become creative in the process of making new discoveries. If you need a creative mind to get to a new way of thinking (new theory that becomes truth), isn’t the creative thinking truth itself? (Or rather it’s not just whimsical).\nImaginative thinking is crucial for both artistic creation and scientific discovery\n\nOwenbarfield blog\n\n\n\n\nTakeaway - their creative ideas took decades to form. Or went years without being published. - Surround yourself with people who challenge you - They created a new syllabus. - power is to those who hold it. Everyone else adapts.\nBlog ideas: - don’t mistake challenge with truth. Someone who is on mistrurh side can convince you\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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It can also remind me to take up His cross.\n\n\n\nWooden beams\n\n\n\n24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16.24–26\n\nThe irony of the cross is that He was the Law, the one who gave Moses the book of Deuteronomy. And he was sentenced to death by the same law he gave to the Israelites:\n\nAnd if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 21.22–23\n\nThe irony is that while he fulfilled the law of Moses, he was condemned according to it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "TL;DR: 101 Ideas. This is like a modern day Meditations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023-12-20 9-11\n\nhappiness of pleasure, grace (appreciation), excellence (emotional resilience)\nsome of the poorest countries are the happiest.\n\n2023-12-19 Essays 1-8\n\nwe all started as strangers\nto change your beliefs, go have experiences that manifest and confirm the beliefs you want to have\ncan only have a few truly\nour relationship with others is a pure reflection of our relationship with our self. Work on your relationship with yourself to improve your relationship with others.\ndo you look at your leg and say “that’s me?” No. That’s my leg. Do you look at your eye, heart, hair? No. Do you look at your fears, hopes or dreams and say, that’s me?\nfear and Anxiety aren’t feelings. They’re symptoms.\nWhat emotion do you feel the most often? Is it positive? If not, why does a negative feeling deserve the spotlight? What does this tell you about your relationship with yourself?\n\n2023-12-22 essays 12+\n\nknowing doing gap. “If I lived today on repeat for 10 years where will I be?” What would happen if I didn’t do X?\n\nInsights: - self actualization is what we’re all doing. We all mostly have shelter, food, job, even if minimum wage.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.html", - "title": "Bread given freely, like His life", + "objectID": "book-review/dune-messiah.html", + "href": "book-review/dune-messiah.html", + "title": "Dune: Messiah", "section": "", - "text": "Symbol\nAll are welcome. Everyone. He doesn’t want a skimpy congregation. He wants it packed. The bread is offered to everyone, the way His life was.\nLikewise, his life was freely given. Free. He had control. And He gives the sacrament freely to all who see it.\n\n\nScriptures\nAll are invited to participate in the sacrament, which is symbolic of the life He freely gave. All souls in the chapel are invited to partake of His goodness.\nOnly He could give up His life:\n\nA natural effect of His immortal origin, as the earth-born Son of an immortal Sire, was that He was immune to death except as He surrendered thereto. The life of Jesus the Christ could not be taken save as He willed and allowed. The power to lay down His life was inherent in Himself, as was the power to take up His slain body in an immortalized state. Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem\n\nChrist alone was given power by God to control the fate of his otherwise immortal body:\n\nTherefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. John 10.17–18\n\nBy similar rite, all are welcome. He is in control.\n\nAnd behold, ye shall meet together oft; and ye shall not forbid any man from coming unto you when ye shall meet together, but suffer them that they may come unto you and forbid them not; 3 Nephi 18.22\n\n\n\nMeaning\nBecause Christ had a choice, and not the Romans, over the timing of His death, and He chose to be taken in captivity, and He chose to walk up the hill, the Lord showed he did all that He could to offer Himself to us.\nWhen I pray, I’m not praying to an unknown God. I’m praying to one who fully understands me (Porous Bread).\nWhen I pray, I can remember He’s already done His part. The only thing holding me back from feeling His love is me.\nHow can I pray in such a way to lower those barriers that I put up between Him and me ?\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Vibe:\n\ncoool ending. The blind guy sees out of his kids eyes.\nRefuses Chaney reincarnation.\nDuncan Idaho returns.\nTwins: Star Wars copies. And padme. And all that.\nMore political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth the read.\nPeople try to kill him. Want his blood. His children. But he can’t have his wife, and sacrifices her and himself for the Dunes. May he enjoy his rest.\n\nSequel to Dune.\n\n\n\nDune Messiah\n\n\n2024-01-13 - things were better when we only had one enemy: Harkonnen - more money more problems - Paul sees the prison cell. - Is anyone better off with more riches? - Religion and government. Government meant to be challenged. What happens when government\nQuestions: - where is Gurney? - What is a stone burner? - Why did he go to Othiem house to get the dwarf? - “It’s easy to confuse clear thinking with correct thinking. Was there a flaw in the Tleliaxieu logic? - What was the detailed plan of the dwarf? - kill Chaney, restore her body as a ghola and relinquish is throne - What’s the relationship of the dwarf with\n2024-01-10\n\nThe sea. Why join the jihad? I had to believe. → there are only a few conductors. The rest want to jump on the moving train. By definition, a conductor has people following.\n\n2024-01-08 Notes: - sometimes lies are easier to believe than the truth - He may be a mentat, Benegesseret, etc but he’s still human. He has a weakness. -\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.html", - "title": "Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones", + "objectID": "book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.html", + "href": "book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.html", + "title": "The Quest for Cosmic Justice", "section": "", - "text": "Symbol\nWe break bread, but His bones were not broken. Only His flesh.\n\n\n\nBread to be broken\n\n\n\n\nScriptures\nWhenever we break the bread, I’m reminded of many things. But one that sticks out is that Christ’s legs were commanded to be broken by the Roman leaders:\n\nThe Jewish officials, who had not hesitated to slay their Lord, were horrified at the thought of men left hanging on crosses on such a day, for thereby the land would be defiled; so these scrupulous rulers went to Pilate and begged that Jesus and the two malefactors be summarily dispatched by the brutal Roman method of breaking their legs, the shock of which violent treatment had been found to be promptly fatal to the crucified. Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial\n\nIt was a technique practiced by the Romans to hasten the death of the crucified:\n\nVictims in the head up position could spend several days on the cross before they died. One technique used by the Romans to hasten death was to break the legs below the knee with a blunt instrument1 (p. 25) Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion - PMC\n\nA bit graphic, but how did this technique possibly accelerate the death?\n\nAccording to those who have studied the grim mechanics of crucifixion, in order to breathe adequately, the crucified victim periodically had to push himself up using his legs. Breaking the legs prevented him from doing that, thus hastening his death. He would suffocate. Why are the crucified persons’ legs broken?\n\nBut Christ’s legs were not broken as instructed. Continuing the quote above from Jesus the Christ:\n\n…The governor gave his consent, and the soldiers broke the limbs of the two thieves with cudgels. Jesus, however, was found to be already dead, so they broke not His bones. Christ, the great Passover sacrifice, of whom all altar victims had been but suggestive prototypes, died through violence yet without a bone of His body being broken, as was a prescribed condition of the slain paschal lambs. Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial\n\nWhy? Why weren’t the bones broken? Why is this significant?\nThe bones of a paschal lamb were meant not to be broken.\nIt dates back to the Mosiac Passover in Egypt (when the firstborns of the Egyptians and the Pharaoh were killed)\n\nIn one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. Exodus 12.46\n\n\nThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. Numbers 9.12\n\nIt was prophesied that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” (Psalm 34.19–20)\nJohn testified of the fulfillment of this prophecy:\n\nThe Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: John 19.31–33\n\n\n36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. John 19.36\n\nSo while we break the bread, His bones were not broken. Just His flesh.\n\n\nMeaning\nThe details that were fulfilled at His death remind me of His prophetic life. The fact that he was killed according to the law, and the law predated him and is scripture in the Torah, is further evidence that Christ truly lived and that his life was a fulfillment of prophecy.\nLikewise, those same details apply to my life. He is involved in those details. Alma 37.7\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Quest for cosmic justice\n\n\n2024-01-17 - housing reform: makes observers feel better about themselves. People who saved money in slums were forced to move to more expensive housing. This causes them to be even more dependent on the government as housing is more expensive and now they need subsidies - Tyranny of visions. - The Problem with Public Opinions - money and power. Chapter 14. - Chapter 15. Napoleonic power. Men will rise to seek this.\n2024-01-16 - war preparedness prevents war. - Ego and vision vs evidence. What’s the evidence for my theory? People defend visions more than evidence even in spite of evidence.\n2024-01-10\n\ncosmic justice - principle of equity\nPeople who want equality will end up destroying it - Milton Friedman’s. They’ll be consumed by their power.\nWe must consider the costs given the world we live in now. We cannot recreate the world from scratch.\n“Through no fault of their own”\n4/5 of millionaires are self made\nProblems stated in 1960\nEnvy = social justice\nImposing any constraint creates other costs.\npower. Politicians like promoting ideas so they can get elected.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.html", - "href": "sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.html", - "title": "Receive the Holy Ghost", + "objectID": "book-review/innovators-dilemma.html", + "href": "book-review/innovators-dilemma.html", + "title": "Innovator’s Dilemma", "section": "", - "text": "Today at church someone was confirmed a member of the Church after having been baptized yesterday. This taught me something new about the sacrament and the covenant we make with Him every week.\n\n\n\nReceive the Holy Ghost\n\n\n\nEntry into His Church by Baptism\nAfter baptism, we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nBut now I give unto thee a commandment, that thou shalt baptize by water, and they shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, even as the apostles of old. Doctrine and Covenants 35.6\n\nThere is precedence for this, as the Savior gave the gift of the Holy Ghost to his apostles after he was no longer tarrying with them:\n\nAnd when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: John 20.22\n\nPausing on that thought for a moment, let’s consider the last sentence in the sacrament prayer on the bread:\n\nthat they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 4.3\n\nAlso consider that the last of the water prayer omits that word “always”:\n\nthat they may have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 5.2\n\nAre they contradictory? No. Because the full last sentence of the water prayer says:\n\nthat they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them. Moroni 5.2\n\nThis tells us that if we always remember him (the Savior), we’ll have His spirit to be with us.\nBack to the New Teatament. The Lord taught His disciples that the comforter would come to them once He left:\n\nNevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 16.7\n\nAnd in a prior chapter, Jesus had instructed that this was the plan - that he would give them the gift of the Comforter when He was gone. Notice the word “another”:\n\nAnd I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14.16–18\n\nPerhaps He said “another” Comforter because He is the first?\nHe further promised the role of the Holy Ghost is to teach of truth and testify of the Savior:\n\nBut when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John 15.26\n\nThe Lord also explained how He works with the Holy Ghost. It appears that, because the Savior was with them, He was their source of truth. But as He was planning to leave them He needed to leave them with a source of truth. As such, they were being prepared to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nThese things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 14.25–26\n\nThis doesn’t mean they didn’t have the spirit - how else could Peter have received His spiritual witness of the Savior? matthew-16.15-17\nWhat do these scriptures all teach me?\n\nIf we always remember the Savior, we’ll have His spirit to be with us\nHis spirit teaches us what is truth: it testifies of Christ\nHe gave this gift because we can’t always be in His presence.\nEven if we were in His presence, we’d need the spirit to let us know that He is the Christ\nWhen we receive the Holy Ghost after baptism, we are commanded to “receive the Holy Ghost” by confirmation into the church.\n\n\n\nWhat is the “gift” of the Holy Ghost?\nThis last one is powerful, because of a clarifying point in the handbook of the church:\n\n\nStates “receive the Holy Ghost” (not “receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”).\n18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings\n\n\nOr, the “gift” of the Holy Ghost perhaps isn’t a thing like the priesthood - something bestowed upon us. (This is something I’ve thought it was my whole life - a gift I receive.) why aren’t we told to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?\nWhat, then, is legally binding about the Lord’s covenant? And what is the “gift of the Holy Ghost” as mentioned in the scriptures? (Articles of Faith 1.4, Moses 5.58, Jacob 6.8, Doctrine and Covenants 39.23, Doctrine and Covenants 49.14, Acts 10.45, and like 4 other references…it’s referenced in every standard work!)\nEven the Lord says he’ll bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost:\n\nAnd whoso having faith you shall confirm in my church, by the laying on of the hands, and I will bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost upon them. Doctrine and Covenants 33.15\n\nBecause we don’t “receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”, perhaps the gift of the Holy Ghost is instead the promised blessing of the constant companionship as a result of keeping our covenant. Things consistent with the definitions in the Guide to the Scriptures:\n\nIt is the right of every worthy baptized member of the Church to have the constant influence of the Holy Ghost. Following a person’s baptism into the true Church of Jesus Christ, he receives the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands from one who has the proper authority Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nAnyone on earth can enjoy the Holy Ghost. It teaches those of truth. But only those of the covenant of baptism, who keep that covenant and the Sacrament Covenant (To always remember Him, keep His commandments, and take His name upon us), are blessed always with His spirit. Things the gift of the Holy Ghost: its constant companionship.\n\nWhile someone is being confirmed a member of the Church, he or she is told to “receive the Holy Ghost.” The gift of the Holy Ghost is not forced on anyone. It becomes the responsibility of members to invite the Holy Ghost to be with them Gift of the Holy Ghost\n\nAnd perhaps the ordinance of the confirmation is to start that covenant: “receive the Holy Ghost now, and always as you remember Me.”\nAnd why do we always want His spirit to be with us? Because the spirit is a proxy for Him: the Comforter, the Source of Truth, the Light and Life of the World. When we have that spirit, we are of the Kingdom of Heaven (on earth).\nSo when I take the sacrament every week, I’m making the covenant to always remember Him so that I can enjoy the gift of receiving the Holy Ghost always.\n\nWhy is this relevant to me personally?\n\nthe gift isn’t some separate power that I can offend or please. It’s not some separate God. Instead, the gift is a covenant. This changes my focus away from a relationship with the Holy Ghost and instead a relationship with the Savior. The purpose of the holy ghost is to point me to the Savior. And if I’m not feeling the spirit, it’s not about trying to please the Holy Ghost - I just need to begin remembering the savior in that moment.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.html", - "href": "tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.html", - "title": "This drug is habit forming", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.html", + "title": "Bread in the Oven", "section": "", - "text": "Sometimes they tell you that at the pharmacy: “this drug is habit forming”. Or, the saline nasal spray bottle thing I tried once, “this spray is refreshing, but not habit forming.” Oh, how nice.\nWhy doesn’t everything have this distinction? Driving in the car: non habit forming. Eating a bag of goldfish when I’m noodling on a work problem: def habit forming.\nOne time, someone put a candy jar with skittles right beside my desk. It was for the whole floor, but my consumption was certainly not a pro-rata share. Buggy code? Gimme some skittles. Habit formed.\nSocial media? Someone likes your post? Habit formed.\n\n\n\nIronically Dalle put “habit farming”, which is kinda what social media is\n\n\nWhy don’t they warn that social media is one of the most addictive digital things we do? That we’ve just accepted as a society?\nIt took until 1964 before the surgeon general announced smoking caused cancer. The first cigarette machine was invented in 1881 by Albert Bonsack. That’s +80 years, not to mention it was popular for much longer before that.\nSo yes, society can get it wrong for many years before they change course and do the more healthful thing.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Symbol\nBread is placed in an oven. Likewise His body was placed in a sepulcher. And he was in that sepulcher three days. When he came out, He was finished as a resurrected Lord.\n # Scriptures\n\nFor as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12.40\n\n\nAnd he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. Mark 15.46\n\n\n\nMeaning\nChrist prophesied he’d be in the tomb three days, and He was. He keeps His promises. The covenant of the sacrament is a promise, one I can trust. For “I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.” (Doctrine and Covenants 82.10)\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/gpt4all.html", - "href": "tech/gpt4all.html", - "title": "GPT4All", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.html", + "title": "Sunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him", "section": "", - "text": "description\nGPT4All train and deploy customized LLMs.\n\n\n\nGpt4all screenshot\n\n\n\n\nsimilar tools\nSeems like a different use case than LM Studio, but hard to say. LM Studio is likely focused on people wanting to download and use the open source models, where this is to help you train and fine tune locally.\nUse it to connect with your notes:\nHow to Use GPT4All with Langchain to Chat with Your Documents | by Vikas Tiwari | Medium\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Symbol\nWe show up to take the sacrament in our Sunday best. There were many “sinners” who came and adored the Lord. A lady gave him oil and washed His feet. The widow gave two mites. The publicans prayed for forgiveness while the Pharisees judged them.\nWe give Him our best when we show up, as sinners, to offer Him a broken heart and contrite spirit.\n\n\n\nSunday best dress\n\n\n\n\nScriptures\n\nAnd one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Luke 7.36–38\n\nThe Pharisees didn’t like that she was a sinner.\n\nNow when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. Luke 7.39\n\nWe are redeemed by Him when we come with such a spirit as this woman.\n\nBehold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered. 2 Nephi 2.7\n\n\n\nMeaning\nThe sacrament isn’t for those who are perfect. It’s for me, a sinner. One who sins. And is sinning and doesn’t even know it. One who is separated from the happiness God would have me fully feel because of my ignorance, my natural state. I am good. I am loved. When I pray, He already knows I’m a sinner and loves me regardless. He doesn’t want me to see myself as a sinner, but as a worshipper who has much to grow from. And I am growing.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.html", - "href": "tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.html", - "title": "Replacing human work with AI", + "objectID": "sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.html", + "href": "sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.html", + "title": "Vaulted Ceilings", "section": "", - "text": "In a recent MIT article, the author discusses how to know if you’re ready for AI adoption. It boils things down to a rather obvious four-step questioning process:\n\nHow much time would I save if I used AI?\nHow expensive is the task? (How expensive is the salary of the person doing the task.)\nHow capable is the AI of completing the task successfully?\nHow easy is it to determine if the output is good/correct?\n\nI say obvious because these are actually just questions you’d ask of any task worth doing by any person at your company. In every decision in running a business, there is an ROI question at play - what does this person cost me, what’s the return?\n\n\n\nIt’s not: “should I use AI?” It’s “how?”\n\n\n\nKnowing what you don’t know, and how to know you know it\nThe author lays out the hypothetical “I asked this ChatGPT to write something in Perl and it did it well on the second try!”\nConsider that. Do you know what Perl is? Would you know how to evaluate if the code is complete? How would you execute such code - do you know the programs to run?\nAI cannot solve these environmental, contextual problems yet. It can’t think through all the nuance. And, if you have an expensive salary, there’s a reason: you have a lot of experience. Experience to know what Perl is. Experience to recognize the code’s flaws and poor design patterns. This makes you all the more valuable with AI.\nOn the other hand, a highly creative, curious person could just ask AI “what programming languages are good for this task?” Like Neo in The Matrix when he “downloads kung-foo” into his brain, we all can get up to speed a lot faster.1\n\n\nHow do I adopt AI? (Not “should”)\nTo me, the question isn’t “do these four questions check the box”? Instead, I see AI as an always-on strategy with various ranges of usefulness:\n\nDo you care what the final product looks like?\n\nAre you okay with an 80% solution?\nIs this throwaway work?\nDo you plan to maintain this code as part of a 10,000 line code base?\nDo you just need ideas to get started?\n\nWhat are the risks in firing my experts?\n\nWho will catch the mistakes of the AI? What if it’s wrong?\nIn many aspects of your business the risk of being wrong might be a lot lower than you think.\n\nWhat can’t it do well?\n\nAssume AI is doing everything at your company - what would that look like?\nGive AI the benefit of the doubt first, then work backward from what it can’t do.\n\n\nI think that AI holds great power to aid our jobs in a lot of ways. It will replace a lot of jobs, just as there are far fewer farmers today than a hundred years ago. Those farmers are far more effective than ever before - we get more yield for less. It will replace part of your job - the stuff you know how to do but would rather have someone else do it.\nCoders will be highly automatable, especially those who think otherwise. Lawyers. Graphic designers. Marketers. This is a cycle as old as time: people and businesses who think they have a strong hold on the market (think: BlackBerry, Innovators Dilemma) are the ones who always get eclipsed. # Learn the new skillset\nHave everyone at your company use it today. It’s the new programming language. It’s the new way of authoring. And yes, prompt engineering (how you ask it questions) widely impacts its usefulness. Therefore, we all need to learn how to prompt engineer.\nThat is the new skillset: knowing what question to ask and how to pressure test its validity. In essence, the learning acceleration curve has skyrocketed, and one person can now actually be good at many things a lot faster. It’s the curious person who will win. It’s the visionary. The evaluator. The one who knows where they want to go, can discern if the steps they’re taking are taking them to their destination, and who have the ability to adapt and course correct when necessary.\nFor now, AI can hardly do things outside data it was trained on. In the future 10 years that may change. If so, we’ll all be on the edge of scientific discovery, pushing the bounds of creative work, and focusing on the nuance that will win/lose that legal case. AI will have a seat at the table. But so will we.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’ve read stories of people without technical backgrounds building websites with GPT. On the surface this is cool. Now do they care to keep doing that? Is that their personality? Are they going to get bored? This is the differentiator. And the people who stick with GPT to build a website and remain curious are the ones who will get ahead. Those who give up won’t.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Every chapel I’ve been in has a vaulted, high ceiling. This is common across many church architectures.\nIt reminds me of the stable where he was born. It reminds me of above, how he came down. It reminds me that there’s space for everyone. Even if it’s crowded on the ground, there’s a ton of space Above. This is why he came: to make space for all of us.\n\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 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A/B testing.\n\n\n\nShipping software like fashion, every season\n\n\nSoftware releases are free, but development is not. Therefore, research and development is constant, whereas the Hammer company hasn’t needed to update its product in a couple…millennia. That’s why they call it software. It’s not hard to make.\nIs there a way to sell software like you sell a hammer?\nNo. Because per Innovator’s Dilemma, those who can out-do you will. And software is easy to alter and improve. I’m not convinced all “updates” done in the software industry are actually improvements, but people like change. Ever see a fashion line repeat itself?\nSoftware is like fashion.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Symbol\nBread is porous.\n\nIn the sacrament, the bread (flesh) is first broken, then the water (blood) is administered.\nBlood follows broken flesh. Blood flowed through the broken flesh. The pores of the flesh.\n\nBread, being porous, is also absorbent. → He absorbed our problems. He internalized them inside His flesh to the point that his own blood didn’t have space internally anymore and exited through the pores.\n\n\n\nThe pores in bread remind me of the pores that let blood for me\n\n\n\n\nSupporting Scriptures\n\nAnd lo, he shall suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can suffer, except it be unto death; for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people. Mosiah 3.7\n\n\n\nMeaning\nThe Savior suffered an enormous amount. Even the thought of imagining blood coming out of my pores evokes thoughts of feeling so much physically overwhelming internal pressure or emotional agony that it would make a human body explode.\nI can remember this when I pray. I can feel heard because He not only felt what I feel today, but he knows the future me, the past me, and the past/present/future everyone else. When I pray, I’m not approaching a distant God. I’m approaching the one that understands humanity better than any human possibly could. Someone that understands me more than I’ll ever understand myself. Someone who’s been there.\nWhen I pray, I don’t have to give pretenses, because “your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” (Matthew 6.8)\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And once you do, you feel alone in a crowded room: you get the jokes that nobody else in your family gets. (Presumably because they have lives not on social media.)\nDetach from social (A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media) and you start to see something else: when you’re not on your phone at a party, you start to see just how much everyone is on social. Checking their SMS, their posts, etc. That’s when you really feel alone in a crowded room.\n\n\n\nAlone in a crowded room\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I was reminded of a video I watched a while back on YouTube. It was a great documentary about these new artists and their debate about whether to sign a record label (there’s a recent trend to selling music as an independent artist).\n\n\n\nPutting pen to ink\n\n\nI forget all the details, but there are some roughly insane trends that are generally interesting as I recall:\n\nnew record labels are for $500k give or take. This is so the artist can invest a year into their music and get an album out, pay for production, etc.\nmany artists at that early stage aren’t financially literate and end up wasting the (they’re musicians, not bankers)\nSome have to pay back the money\nUp to 85% of the streaming royalties are owed to the label (started when streaming became a thing)\nLabels also take a large portion of touring revenues now (something that wasn’t common 10 years ago)\n\nWhy is this similar to tech startups? Lots.\nMusicians have to find product market fit. They need to find their customers. Their monthly listeners.\nThey need to keep them coming back.\nThey need to differentiate.\nThose who are customer focused and build a following are those who succeed. (Money in the bank and relying too much on the label can cripple you)\n\nThe Musicians in Town\nI remember hanging out with some new artists while I was running my startup (we both used the same videographer). I couldn’t help but notice how similar the dynamics were. The founders. The first hires (replacements). The convos about who gets what. It’s all very fascinating.\nNot much else to say.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "tech/private-gpt.html", - "href": "tech/private-gpt.html", - "title": "Private GPT", + "objectID": "tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.html", + "href": "tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.html", + "title": "AI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.", "section": "", - "text": "Private GPT\nPrivateGPT\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\nChat with your notes.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I recently got back into writing some poems. The Dove (Forevermore) was fun to write. After the fact, I tried getting ChatGPT to create something similar. I only tried once before declaring victory.\nWhy is this poem meaningful to me? Because it has my soul in it. It’s the summation of my experience as a parent. Should you find it interesting, perhaps that’s why.\nReading The Best of Edgar Allen Poe recently I’m amazed (besides how depressing he is) at how excellent a writer he is. He peers into the mind and soul and extricates anything interesting. It’s interesting because a human wrote it.\nDo we still paint, even if a camera can take a picture? Do we still ride bikes and horses even with cars and things? Do we still read even though we have TV and movies?\nWords. Creative expression. They will always be interesting to us. Humans are interesting to us. Stories. Social acceptance is a fundamental human need. We desire connection. We’ll like reading something because a human wrote it.\nBut what about that guy I heard about who makes a ton of money using ChatGPT to create fake digital books on Amazon. People don’t know it’s AI-written. Digital GenAI images now are insanely accurate - it’s only 2024. It’s very possible great AI art will inspire us more than non-AI art (whatever that means because everyone uses photoshop anyway).\nI’m not saying we won’t find value in AI art (creative writing, digital, video, etc.). We will. It’s clear we’ll have a really hard time knowing what’s human vs not.\nBut I am saying that creativity will never disappear. We’re always going to be interested in creating - even if machines can do it better. Machines can beat us at Go and StarCraft (AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans), but we’ll still play. Because what else will there be to do?\n\n\n\nI guess I’ll pick up painting now…\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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AI can be an interface to your users’ data or a means of transforming that data into shapes that are more useful to your users.\n\nChatGPT will likely never build a todo list app that manages sending you notifications, etc. (Not until they have their own OS at least).\nFocus on building AI-augmented experiences.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Tim Ferris describes why he doesn’t have social media on his phone:\n\nI recently deleted social media from my phone 14 days ago. I had been using Instagram until April when I quit and Twitter all year. I realized within days how much better I felt without social media. Happier. Legitimately happier.\nAnd why? What do I get out of it? I’m not growing closer to friends. That’s what texting and calling and spending time in person does. But I’d argue even texting doesn’t really strengthen a relationship because it’s so hard to properly interpret emotions and cues via text: you interpret them how you read those texts. You interpret it according to your emotional state, not the sender’s.\nPhone provides vocal emotional cues. Body language another set of emotional cues. I can get probably 70% of this out from FaceTime or Zoom. But being in person is what we’re meant for.\nThis is why we strengthen relationships locally, and fail to continue ones from high school or our previous job.\nSo what was I doing on social media? Watching clips of either strangers I don’t care about or college associates I friended (once lived locally with) that I no longer talk to.\nSo what’s the knife you’re bringing to the gun fight? When at YouTube I heard the CEO praise a team for increasing “seconds watched” by 15% by reducing the lag of the swipes between YouTube shorts (TikTok clone). The lag reduction was in the milliseconds. Your attention is being bought and manipulated by the shareholders of these companies.\n\n\n\nYes, they’re targeting specifically you. You don’t stand a chance. And you have a pocket knife, and you’re 50 feet away. Who’s gonna win?\n\n\nThey A/B test everything. This isn’t morally wrong. It’s actually quite human: we all A/B test everything every day. A joke here. A smile there. We put out feelers and see if we get a reaction. Don’t believe me? Ask my kid why he keeps throwing things in the toilet!\nBillions of dollars and the brightest minds on earth are working at FAANG. Why? They need to provide for their families and academics doesn’t pay. Non-profits don’t pay. This isn’t immoral, it just is. There are very good people working there: honest, moral people. Some of the best I’ve seen in the industry. But when you get paid to maximize swipes, you maximize swipes. It’s just human nature. And some of them buy into the odd notions of “snackable content”, as if swiping for 30 minutes while on the toilet is what anyone wakes up excited to do. Keep on snacking…\nSocial media and Netflix provide a ton of value to the world in my opinion. I can use them to call anyone I want, raise money for a cause, or get likes on a cute pic of my cat (I don’t have a cat). I do see the value.\nBut the costs for me have outweighed the value.\nI do miss laughing about some random Reel. There’s nothing that can get you laughing faster than a 10 second clip paired with the right cuts and music and everything. The right meme just nails it in a way nothing else can. I miss seeing memes from my friends. But when all I do is send memes to these friends, is that a friendship?\nSince being off social media I feel like my senses have grown. I now find my kids a lot funnier, my wife funnier, and I’m able to make heavy situations lighter much easier.\nThere’s a quote in Dune that’s something like “If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken”. I’d argue my other relationships weakened too. Time to leave the fight. I was losing.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "news/2024-01-19-news-notes.html", - "href": "news/2024-01-19-news-notes.html", - "title": "News Notes for 2024-01-19", + "objectID": "tech/lm-studio.html", + "href": "tech/lm-studio.html", + "title": "LM Studio", "section": "", - "text": "Social media platforms make $11B in ad revenue from U.S. teens — Harvard Gazette\n\nkids have always been targeted though. Don’t tell me the disease ridden McPlay place with its sad meals isn’t to blame too.\nAfter reading The Quest for Cosmic Justice I’ve considered how negative regulation can be. Let’s thought experiment: stop advertising to kids. Well then why not stop advertising to people of any other demographic? Old people are vulnerable too right? Okay so then let’s have free market. Advertise to anyone - okay let’s enable smoking ads again for kids. No that’s not good.\n\n\nYouTube derived the greatest ad revenue from users 12 and under ($959.1 million), followed by Instagram ($801.1 million) and Facebook ($137.2 million). Instagram derived the greatest ad revenue from users ages 13-17 ($4 billion), followed by TikTok ($2 billion) and YouTube ($1.2 billion). The researchers also calculated that Snapchat derived the greatest share of its overall 2022 ad revenue from users under 18 (41 percent), followed by TikTok (35 percent), YouTube (27 percent), and Instagram (16 percent).\n\nOpenAI announces first partnership with a university - education is going to be greatly commoditized. - Academic researchers can enjoy researching again instead of teaching (what some of them are horrid at) - I took an accounting class where half was online, half in person. This will be the future for all classes, but probably 10% in person. - The value of the professor will be in office hours.\nMeta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence - The Verge\n\nWe’re used to there being pretty intense talent wars,” he says. “But there are different dynamics here with multiple companies going for the same profile, [and] a lot of VCs and folks throwing money at different projects, making it easy for people to start different things externally.\n\n\nBig tech has the compute resources to develop AGi\nMultiple AGI competition will increase security, lower cost.\nWe’ll all have access eventually to open source AGI. And the same bad guys that have access will be countered by the good guys who have access. Just like today.\n\nGitHub - FlagOpen/TACO - It’s good to have benchmarks everyone can rely on. Hopefully they don’t leak into the training data.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "description\nLM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "books.html", - "href": "books.html", - "title": "Book Reviews", + "objectID": "tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.html", + "href": "tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.html", + "title": "The future wave of AI hype", "section": "", - "text": "Goal: To spend less time consuming more, more time consuming intentionally.\nMostly incoherent bullet points of thought provoking moments.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\nclassics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nErnest Hemingway\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nJacob Ward\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\nRobert Cialdini\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nWilliam Esterly\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHis story.\n\n\n\nMatthew McConaughey\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\napocalyptic\n\n\nfiction\n\n\ndystopian\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\nHugh Howey\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\npsychology\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neducation\n\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\nGreg Lukianoff\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\nDale Carnegie\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nAdam Smith\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nHumphrey Carpenter\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he…\n\n\n\nThomas Sowell\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth…\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday December 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday December 23, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday December 22, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday December 18, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday June 24, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\nx\n\n\nSaturday April 30, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Charles Duhigg\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday May 3, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", - "crumbs": [ - "Writing", - "Book Reviews" - ] + "text": "Reading about Airplane’s failure per OnlyCFO. A few notable quotes:\n\nAirplane’s shutdown and future shutdowns like this will have negative consequences for many early stage companies. For many years buyers of these tools haven’t had to deal with a tool being abruptly killed. It only takes this happening once for you to really second guess purchasing a startup tool that is mission critical, deeply integrated, or would take a long time to replace.\n\nAlso:\n\n\n\nCarta showing shutdowns\n\n\nThis chart is misleading for a few reasons:\n\nWhat’s the denominator?\nWhat’s the denominator…\nDenomi…\n\nAs Carta grows, their user base grows, their churn rate grows.\nI’m also concerned for Carta’s investors. If they’ve got this many churning users, I’d really like to know the denominator.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts.html", - "href": "posts.html", - "title": "Posts", + "objectID": "tech/beam-ai.html", + "href": "tech/beam-ai.html", + "title": "Beam AI", "section": "", - "text": "“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday December 25, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 16, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 15, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 6, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday November 12, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday July 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday July 3, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday June 25, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday June 22, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday June 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday July 17, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 19, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 16, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "AI\nTesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving | Electrek - 300k rules based system down to a model - you’ll need both: a model and overrides. - Or, you train the model by learning from the scenarios encoded in your 300k rules engine (like DeepMind’s AlphaGo)\nFast Tracking RAG Model Evaluation with Synthetic Data - synthetic data to evaluate RAG responses? - A response is non-deterministic, random - Perhaps do a Levenshtein distance of sorts to evaluate of response is as good as you want? - But isn’t this the same as question-answer pairs and instruction tuning?\nAuto Wiki by Mutable.ai - this proves how powerful AI is. Just add data and watch it churn. - An example of an AI product.\n\n\nCoding\nPython Does Not Fully Deliver OOP Encapsulation Functionalities - I learned how attributes are names in a Python class. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Public accountability is the greatest motivator.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese goals are correlated with, but not causal to happiness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThey’re anti-sad, but pro-happy comes not from checking off boxes but by building meaningful relationships with God, self, family, and friends.\nWhy do I measure? Because whenever things aren’t going well I often attribute it to a lacking of one of these things. But I don’t keep this checkbox list to make me happy. Happiness is perspective and relationships. Purpose. So why this list? Well, they’re the foundation of a guided, structured, and prosperous life.\n\nStudying scriptures and praying teaches me who I am and what my purpose is here on earth. It also gives me perfect role models to follow (Christ’s example in the scriptures, and God’s influence on me during prayer). What better way to guide your rudder (as Christensen says), than to be influenced by God on a daily basis. They say you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Why not make the number 1 person you spend your most valuable time to be God? (I don’t have to spend 5 hours. 5 very meaningful minutes can correct my day.)\nWriting about my study is my little attempt to share God’s light with the world. Imagine what social media would look like if everyone shared an insight from Marcus Aurelius, Buddha, Ghandi, Jesus, Mohammad, on a daily basis and how that insight affected their perspective? Be the change you want to see in the world, they say.\nWriting gratitude rewires my brain. It causes me to see things I wouldn’t. Why not just say things I’m grateful for during prayer or a gratitude journal? I dunno. Those things don’t help me for some reason. It always feels forced (I’ve tried it dozens of ways). Somehow, writing in public, gives me a great sense of “I mean it.” Helps me think about that thing. Give it real thought.\nPhysical health. Strength helps my bones. The effects of weight lifting are seen over decades, not months. I need to take better care of my bones. Same with cardio. They both energize today, but they prevent a whole host of bad things tomorrow and beyond. The effects are compounding - in both directions. Physical health also drives me to eat better. Eating better doesn’t cause me to exercise, but exercising caueses me to eat better. Less snacks.\nMeditating helps me train my mind. It’s a moment where I think about something I want to improve on. Less reactivity as a dad to kids misbehaving. More optimism. More appreciation for the body I have, the health I enjoy, the freedom I have in this world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024 Goals: Read, hike, pray, meditate, workout, give thanks daily, study scripture daily\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObjective\n\nDeepen my relationship with and connection to God, self, family, and friends.\nEnjoy intellectual growth and historical understanding\nHave fun.\n\n\n\nKPIs\nReading:\n\n52 books. 12 fiction. 12 biographies. 12 business/self help. 4 religious. And 12 free choice (history, philosophy, career/data-ai). See Reading List.\n\nDaily Habits:\n\nPray\nMeditate\nWorkout (strength and cardio)\nGive thanks (write a post)\nStudy scriptures (write a post)\n\nWeekly Habits: Family Home Evening with my kids (Come Follow Me study + activity)\nMonthly: Date night.\nQuarterly: Attend the temple - a religious building (separate from church).\nFun:\n\n52 hikes (1x/wk)\nCall a friend\n4 weekend trips/vacations to new destinations and parks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHabitsRecords\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 1: Goals\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaily Habits\n\n\n\n☀️\n💧\n📖\n🙏🏻\n🚴🏻\n🏋🏼‍♂️\n🧘🏼‍♂️\n🛐\n🔗\n\n\n\n\nFri 2/2\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nThu 2/1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nWed 1/31\n1\n0\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n\n\nTue 1/30\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nMon 1/29\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nSun 1/28\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n0\n0\n\n\nSat 1/27\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nFri 1/26\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nThu 1/25\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n1\n0\n1\n0\n\n\nWed 1/24\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n0\n0\n\n\nTue 1/23\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n\n\nMon 1/22\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n\n\nSun 1/21\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n0\n1\n1\n0\n\n\nSat 1/20\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n\n\nFri 1/19\n1\n1\n1\n1\n0\n1\n1\n0\n1\n\n\n\n📖: Study, 🙏🏻: Gratitude, 🛐: Pray, 🚴🏻‍♂️: Cardio, 🏋🏼‍♂️: Strength, 🧘🏼‍♂️: Meditate\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 2: Recent streak\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBike Records\n\n\nTime\nKJ\nAvg W\nDay\nNotes\n90%\n80%\n70%\n\n\n\n\n10\n156\n260\n2024-01-20\nAbout 1pm workout. No lunch. Just hopped on and immediately shot for 240 avg. stayed there for 5, doing about 73%, then last 5 min pushed it more.\n140.4KJ (234avg)\n124.8KJ (208avg)\n109.2KJ (182avg)\n\n\n15\n216\n240\n2024-01-27\nNA\n194.4KJ (216avg)\n172.8KJ (192avg)\n151.2KJ (168avg)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigure 3: Peloton Records\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nDate\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n2024-02-02\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n2024-02-01\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 31, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-31\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 30, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-30\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 29, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-29\n\n\nTabata. Pushups, crunches, squats, lower back raises. 45s on, 30s rest.\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 28, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-28\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 27, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-27\n\n\nPelo 20. Bench. Kettlebells, triceps.\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-26\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-25\n\n\n10m Tabata bodyweight. Push-up, sit-up, body squat, lower leg. 45on, 30s rest, 1m round rest.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 24, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-24\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-23\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 22, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-22\n\n\n15m pelo zone 2. Triceps at 20lb+5-way shoulders super at 8lb. Shrugs + calves 20 at 60 and 50lbs\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 21, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-21\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 20, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-20\n\n\n10m pelo 156kj. Bench-65x5,67x5,70x 6. Nothing else.\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 19, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-19\n\n\nTabata. Pushups, crunches, squats, lower back raises. 45s on, 30s rest.\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 18, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-18\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 17, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-17\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-16\n\n\nBike 15. Kettle bell. Drop ser.\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 15, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-15\n\n\nJump rope. Bench. 60,65,67.5. Arms.\n\n\n\n\nSunday January 14, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-14\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nSaturday January 13, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-13\n\n\n2 min workout in room. Pushups then lower back lifts. 20 of each, 2 sets. L\n\n\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n2024-01-12\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\ngoals\n\n\nPelo 200avg for a few min, then get up to 230avg by 5 min. Superset of DB bench at 50, 60, 60 with leg raises of 10 on last two\n\n\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\nGoals\n\n\n10m bike 210avg. 3x superset of calves+shrugs and dbdlift 50lbs both. About 8-10 reps each.\n\n\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\nWorkout\n\n\nTwo Tabatas. First was kettlebell, then pushups then sit ups. Two rounds. Second Tabata was rows and biceps. Three rounds.\n\n\n\n\nMonday January 8, 2024\n\n\nBody: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata\n\n\n60s sit-up, 60s pushup, 60s squat. 2 sets. 30s rest in between. Replaced squats with squat jumps. Didn’t rest. Stayed in plank, down squat, or descending sit-up position.\n\n\n\n\nThursday January 13, 2000\n\n\ntest\n\n\n2 min workout in room. Pushups then lower back lifts. 20 of each, 2 sets. L\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "crumbs": [ + "Other", + "Goals" + ] }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-slow-blink.html", - "href": "creative/poem-slow-blink.html", - "title": "Slow Blink", + "objectID": "creative/red-eyed.html", + "href": "creative/red-eyed.html", + "title": "Red eyed", "section": "", - "text": "Slow Blink\nSlow blink\n\"What do you think?\"\nNot much. \nJust got here. \nWhat's that?\n\"Are you looking at the cabinet handle?\"\nYea. What is it.\nWhy is it?\nWhere am I?\nMy eyes are doing this thing.\nOh, hi there, orbital cavity. Thought I'd..\n\"Awww, slow blink...\"\nCabinet Handle\n\n\n\nSlow blink\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "How would you like to sleep next to a stranger?\nHow about between two strangers?\nAnd sometimes you cuddle! But you can’t pick the strangers.\nOh! And all three of you are sleeping in chairs!\nDoes that sound like something you’d like? No!?\nBut what if you got a midnight snack, would that make it better?\nOr if someone interrupted your sleep at 4am with an irrelevant megaphone announcement?\nBut what if there were not two, but 200 strangers?\n…Why can’t I convince you? Okay, last try:\nWhat if you all were sleeping in a moving object?\nGoing 700mph?\nAnd everyone is suspended at 30,000 feet?\nYea, you’d like that? You’d pay a lot of money for that experience? Wow.\nWell, I guess everybody has their limit.\n\n\n\nEyeballs\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-lint.html", - "href": "creative/poem-lint.html", - "title": "Lint", + "objectID": "creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.html", + "href": "creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.html", + "title": "The Dove (Forevermore)", "section": "", - "text": "Lint between your fingers\nLint between your toes\nWhere does it comes from?\nOnly the windtraps know\n\nYou clench it like a prized possession\nIts presence makes you my obsession\n\n\n\nCute toes\n\n\nSeriously, it’s like a windtrap of Arrakis (Dune). Just appears.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A twist on “The Raven”, from The Best of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe got it all wrong.\nIf you haven’t read “The Raven” recently, take a moment first to remember, remember that Raven of yore.\n\nThe Dove (Forevermore)\nA twist on “The Raven” by Bryan Whiting\nThree A.M., I hear you wrapping.\nDesitin, I keep slapping.\nDiapers fresh, for poop, post napping.\nDiapers fresh, for my Adore.\n\nIt was a cold and bleak December.\nDark and dreary, I remember.\nSleepless nights and occasional frights, \nI'd forgotten the parent's implore:\n please protect my Sweet Adore \n\nNothing strange, just parents living.\nBabies growing, always swimming\nthrough the tides of life they're dipping, \n dripping, \n tripping, slick socks \n slipping \n lovey, pants, they all keep ripping \n\"Will it stop?\", my mind is tipping\nI love them so, my Adore. \nBut I just ask rest, I implore. \nWill I get it? \n \"Nevermore.\" \n\nWhat's that I hear, is something slapping? \nNo! by Jove! A creature crapping! \nCrapping on my kitchen floor!! \nRight next to the. bathroom..door...\nI just cannot believe for sure.\nNot another chore.\nI just mopped there, I can assure.\nI feel denial swelling more.\n That creature must be \n her \n Adore. \n\nThen in Jan the rain starts stalling. \nOn my chest, her eyes are falling, \nNapping, cooing, smiling, fawning,\nMy bedroom window, in Jan is calling\nCalling in a creature, sure.\n\n\"What's this?\" I wonder, as I slumber.\nIs it just me, or am I dumber? \nIs that a bird?! What's that number? \n\"Animal control!\" I now thunder,\n\"For the dove! Not one mess more!!\"\n\"Begone, you bird!\" I implore!\nIt cocks its head, \n \"Nevermore.\"\n\nSomething changed, as I remember,\nafter that, cold, bleak December.\nThe sleep rolled in, and so I weather,\n weather just a little bit more.\n\nThe baby's coos I now see freshly.\nThe piqued smiles now enmesh me.\nThe drools of milk now refresh me.\n\"Refresh me, my Adore.\"\nHow could I ever\n have seen anything more?\n Please don't let it end, I implore.\nThe dove then whispers, \n \"Evermore.\"\n\nThe children calling, wailing, falling\nat my feet, screaming, brawling,\nincessant thumping, pounding, hounding,\n is pleasant to my ears once more.\nPleasant because they're my Adore.\n\nI see it now, that bright December.\nIt wasn't dark, I now remember.\nJust a dog, a fog, but nothing more. \nBut now it's gone, and nevermore.\nI took photos, Polaroids, sure.\nBut now it's gone. \n And I want more. \n\nRemembered now are the cuddles.\nLong forgotten: spilled milk puddles.\nSpilled milk puddles are \n nevermore. \n\nDays asleep and nights awake.\nDream eyes open, for goodness sake.\nWhat I wouldn't give to take\nanother look at my Make.\nAnother look at \n my \n Adore.\n\nWhen I could hold her, and nothing more. \nWhen in my hands, and on the floor\nwe cuddle, huddle, muddle more.\n\"Bring it back\", I implore\n\"Turn back time\", I plead pure.\n\nThen entered in that dove once more, \nthe welcomed bird, the dove of yore.\n\"The past is gone, time pressed its seal.\nBut yours to keep, for it is real\npast and present, space time is traveled\nIn eternity, your gift unravels\n Forevermore.\"\nThe tides of parenting are just phases. The good, the bad, the guilt, the love, the denial you even have kids to the overwhelming joy you could never express adequately in words…it all comes and goes - sometimes within the same hour.\nThen suddenly we realize it’s all gone before we can blink.\nThe newborn is now walking at my feet. The eighteeen-month-old-diaper-generator is now riding his bike. The four-year-old brother slapper is now six and creating “Daddy, I love you” cards. Thankfully families are forevermore.\n(Mostly) written 5:02am on Jan 5, 2024, after a sweet midnight feeding, where she cooed and smiled right before passing out peacefully on my chest.\n\n\n\nMessy rooms, a memory forevermore\n\n\nOther lines…\nPints of puke are never more\nOnce held lovey is now a bore\nonce scraped knees now never sore\ngoing to the park now a chore\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-lint.html#lint", - "href": "creative/poem-lint.html#lint", - "title": "Lint", + "objectID": "creative/cuddles.html", + "href": "creative/cuddles.html", + "title": "Cuddles", "section": "", - "text": "Lint between your fingers\nLint between your toes\nWhere does it comes from?\nOnly the windtraps know\n\nYou clench it like a prized possession\nIts presence makes you my obsession\n\n\n\nCute toes\n\n\nSeriously, it’s like a windtrap of Arrakis (Dune). Just appears." + "text": "Cuddles\n\n\n\nCuddled\nYou cuddle Cuddles,\nI cuddle you. \nAn inception of cuddles. \nLaps within laps. \nI squeeze cuddles\nand get you too.\nKid was sitting on my lap with a lovey in their lap.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-timeless.html", - "href": "creative/poem-timeless.html", - "title": "Timeless", + "objectID": "creative/the-thief-of-time.html", + "href": "creative/the-thief-of-time.html", + "title": "The Thief of Time", "section": "", - "text": "The days pass by like weeks.\nThe weeks pass by like days.\nThe sun continues to set\nin it's old, familiar way\n\n\nTime is an illusion,\nrestful nights, a delusion, \nmy state of mind, a confusion,\nBut still my kids want to play\n\n\n\nTime slips away, under our watchful eye\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "There are only two robbers of childhood: death and time.\nTime is a death in a way. A cessation of your four year old self. Of your 10 year old self. Of your ignorant self. Of your yesterday self.\nTime is constant, pushing us closer to one inevitable.\nTime is a gift, the only gift we all share while here on earth.\nWhat is the time constant? There’s a gravitational constant. A Planck constant. What about a time constant - the rate at which time ticks? At which our molecules age. At which our beings move from one state to another?\nI don’t think I’ll get the time to answer that…\n\n\n\nTime robbing time\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "creative/poem-timeless.html#timeless", - "href": "creative/poem-timeless.html#timeless", - "title": "Timeless", + "objectID": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", + "title": "De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person", "section": "", - "text": "The days pass by like weeks.\nThe weeks pass by like days.\nThe sun continues to set\nin it's old, familiar way\n\n\nTime is an illusion,\nrestful nights, a delusion, \nmy state of mind, a confusion,\nBut still my kids want to play\n\n\n\nTime slips away, under our watchful eye" + "text": "Building a Data Science culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTL;DR: Always keep it simple and always bring it back to the business need.\n\n\n\nA coworker once asked me for advice on how to bring technical rigor into a non-technical culture.\n\n\nWhen the Simple Solution Wins\nA few years back I wanted to see if I could predict which NBA team would win in their next match. FiveThirtyEight is a blog that does this every day. Could I build a model as good as theirs?\nI built a few models and put up a site. Below I have a table of accuracies for each of my models compared to FoveThirtyEight’s.\n\nWhat I learned is that Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight three models are only 66% accurate. In 20 hours I got a model as accurate (V02 above) as his using just team level data (win %, recent win streak, etc.) and no player data (injuries, etc.). Also my model was built using data from 2005-2017 to predict 2019 performance. His model was updated daily with recent stats.\nBut even more glaring is that if I made a prediction on a single feature (Home % > Away %) I could achieve 63.7% accuracy. This feature is a 1 if the home teams win % is greater than the away teams win %, 0 otherwise. Meaning, the home team wins 63.7% of the time their season win % is higher than the away teams season win %.\nWas it worth building an XGBoost model with 30 features to get 65.8% accuracy when just a simple calculation is 63.7% accurate? Depends on business context and how valuable that 2% gain is and what the development/engineering cost of deploying a model is. But if I were you I’d start with the simple model to get it into production to start generating value and then come back later to optimize.\nCaveat: it took a lot of work to discover that feature. 90% of the problem was building the data set. So at the end, building a model was pretty simple once I had the data. (This is where cloud AutoML will take over going forward, sorry!.) And I needed the model to see the feature importance (this was the top feature.) This is a valid data science approach: use modeling to discover the patterns. But just because you have a model doesn’t mean it’s worth deploying.\nKeep it business focused: when building a recommendation system, start with “what’s most popular”. Why would you need K-means or whatever to begin? And can’t you build your own K-means by creating heuristic filters? For example: if you want to recommend me a shirt based on shirts I’ve searched, you can find all shirts of same color, price, and size and recommend those. Building a model to take into account dimensions, patterns, what others buy, etc is fine but should be a V2.\n\n\nMindsets\nThere’s a temptation to act like an academic professor and use fancy jargon when working with your coworkers. Even worse, there’s a temptation to think you’re smarter than your coworkers because you know this mathy thing that they don’t. But remember this quote:\n\nWhen they are learned they think they are wise…1\n\nThis pride power struggle is your downfall for two reasons:\n\nIt blinds you to thinking your solution is good just because someone else can’t understand it.\nIt blinds you from focusing on what matters most: getting the simplest and best solution.\n\nYour coworkers aren’t your students eating you. They’re your smart coworkers solving the same problems you are.\nA better mindset is that of a professional athlete, like a football player. They might be dumb as bricks at times but they’re all incredibly smart players. Can you explain your technical solution like a pro football player would?\n\nBad: “I built an XGBoost classification model that reduces the RMSE by minimizing the Gini coefficient on each node…”\n\nBetter: “I noticed that most users close the app after they reach this page. I tried looking at some reasons why and found a few common behaviors (DISCUSS, get feedback). I think we can predict when this will happen and here’s a framework to do that.”\n\nThere’s a temptation to think “I did all this technical work, I should get credit for it!” My manager once coached me, “Your stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.”\nThe best example I know of this is Chris Voss, an FBI negotiator. Listen to his podcasts or YouTubes. He’s a humble guy and doesn’t get into the technical stuff. He knows the principles and keeps the explanations simple. He helps you feel smart when you listen to him. He’s one of the best negotiators in the world and if you were having dinner with him you’d think he was a normal guy. This is how data scientists should be.\n\n\nBugs\nThere are two types of bugs in data science: Software bugs and data bugs. You’ll spend 80% of your ramp up time on a project setting up your environment, learning the data, trying to understand the primary keys and logging and unique values, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNobody cares about how you do any of this (the same way you don’t care about how cereal ends up in your grocery store), but they do care that you do it because it shows that you’re thinking about the right things.\nThey’ll also worry that you’re spending too much time on the wrong thing, so make sure you believe your actions are solving a business purpose.\n\n\n\n\n\nTakeaways\n\nFocus on principles, not technical details.\nGet the simplest, useful solution into production first to start creating value. Then figure out if it’s worth optimizing. If your product gets deprecated in 3 months then the fancy model will be wasted time anyway.\nYour stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.\nIf you can’t explain a trend with a simple bar/line chart, a fancy regression model won’t do.\nStart with the non-technical (basic math) solution. Then see if you can beat the basic math with a fancy model. Evaluate the cost/benefit of the technical solution relative to the dumb version.\nwhen you have a fancy solution, make sure you compare it to the basic solution. Make sure you can beat the solution your teammates come up with. And make sure you carefully lead them from “their” solution to yours. “At first I tried X. X was fine. But X didn’t account for Y. So I built a model M and saw that M out performs X by 10%.”\nJust because you know/use math, doesn’t mean it’s right for the business. Data Scientists can easily be myopic because the work we do is challenging and deep in the weeds.\nYour boss doesn’t care about the nature of the bugs, but you should try to bring first principles to the table so she can cover for you. “I keep hitting this bug in the data. Can we ask/work with Infra team to solve this because it eats my time.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9:28↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", - "href": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", - "title": "Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author", + "objectID": "posts/2016-11-07-starting-with-jekyll/starting-with-jekyll.html", + "href": "posts/2016-11-07-starting-with-jekyll/starting-with-jekyll.html", + "title": "Starting with Jekyll", "section": "", - "text": "If you’re a bad author, your writing will only make sense to you.\nProblem is, we’re all bad authors.\n\nMy writing makes sense as I put it fown\nIt doesn’t always make sense to me 5 minutes later (my future self is practically another person)\nThe probability of it being perfectly interpreted by someone who isn’t even me, is likely near zero.\n\nSo when we write, we send out an idea. It then becomes a painting on the wall, up for anyone to interpret how they may.1 therefore, it’s best to put yourself as much in your audience’s shoes as possible (something discussed often in How to Win Friends and Influence People).\n\n\n\n“Now what on earth was Bryan trying to say?!?” “I think he was inspired” “nah man, he just wrote scribbles on the wall. That’s not writing!” “Yea, maybe he should slap a banana with duct tape on there. Would have gotten the point across better”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoing to an extreme - ever write a kind word that was taken as an insult, or sent something sarcastic and it was interpreted as literal?↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Hello world.\nI wanted to start a blog. I wanted to set it up for free, use a custom URL (and not something.bloggingplatform.com), and be able to both blog and create tutorials. I didn’t mind it possibly being technical1. Enter Jekyll.\nIf you want to get your blog in 10 minutes, skip to below.\n\nWhy Blog with Jekyll?\nHere’s why you can and should blog with Jekyll (if you’re a data scientist):\n\nJekyll has beautiful, free, open-source templates.\nGitHub will host your website for free2.\nJekyll is static.\nJekyll can be simple to set up3.\nI tried Wordpress and blogger.com and got frustrated.\nThe blogging content you create is very portable (easy to take your posts from one blog site to another).\nCreating blogs in Markdown syntax is a dream (even for non-technical folks).\nYou can manage your blog from your terminal\nYou can manage your blog from your phone (if you have a GitHub-editing app)\n\nBut if you don’t like debugging occasional errors, you probably shouldn’t blog with Jekyll.\nWhat is Jekyll, you ask? Jekyll is an open-source blogging platform. Anyone can write a template and post it, and anyone else can use that template. Perusing Jekyllthemes.org, you can pick out any template you’d like.\n\n\nHow did I get started with Jekyll?\nAs a blogging noob, I’ve discovered there are hundreds of ways to generate a blog (e.g., WordPress, Squarespace, blogger.com, Weebly, etc.). But when my colleague Arthur Lui showed me his blog, I wanted something similar. I first tried Wordpress, then tried blogspot, then gave up and followed Arthur’s example and landed with Jekyll.\n\n\nSet up a blog in 10 minutes!\nI followed this Jekyll tutorial to set up my first blog. I’ll simplify those steps here to get you up and running quickly:\n\nGet a GitHub account. (2 min)\nGo to Jekyllthemes.org. All of these blog themes are free. Find one you like, and Fork the repo (i.e., “repository”). (2-60 min, depending on how long you peruse)\nIn GitHub, rename the newly-forked repo from “REPO name” to “yourgithubusername.github.io”. (1 min)\nNow go to “githubusername.github.io”. Voila, you have a blog.\n\nAnd if you want to start writing posts, go to your “_posts” folder. Then create new files and follow the default templates that the repository provides. (The blogs will need to be written in Markdown syntax.)\nThat was my 10 minute promise. If you feel a bit cheated or lost, go to the well-done tutorial and do all the steps. But the steps I listed are the essential steps to setting up a blog from scratch. So if you want to make a few blogs really quickly, after you figure out the first one the others follow nicely. For example, once I finished the tutorial, I followed those steps above to try two other themes before deciding on the Centrarium theme.\nTo get Centrarium to work, I did have to change some configurations in the “_config.yml”, so there can be some minor debugging depending on the theme you choose. But with a little patience and some Googling, you’ll get it.\n\n\nAdd to Jekyll a custom URL from GoDaddy\nYou’ll notice I have a custom URL and not “bryanwhiting.github.io”. I used GoDaddy to get a domain. (I have no affiliation with GoDaddy.) Here’s how I linked GoDaddy with my GitHub Jekyll blog:\n\nGet a domain.\nIn your Github repo, change (or create) a CNAME file in the main directory. (See my CNAME file for an example). And for the CNAME file contents, just type in the new “www” that you registered through GoDaddy.\nThen, on GoDaddy, go to the section “DNS Management”. Here’s where you tell GoDaddy how to connect your newly purchased “www” with GitHub. Create the following connections:\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [A, @, 192.30.252.153, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [A, @, 192.30.252.154, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [CNAME, ftp, yourgithubusername.github.io, 600 seconds]\n[Type, Name, Value, TTL] = [CNAME, www, yourgithubusername.github.io, 600 seconds]\n\nIf you have the CNAME file in your GitHub folder, GitHub and GoDaddy will talk and after a few minutes your custom “www” will work. You don’t technically need the two [A] steps, but those connections allow users to type “bryanwhiting.com” instead of “www.bryanwhiting.com”. It can take up to 24 hours before these [A] connections enable, so don’t be worried if the short URL doesn’t work first try. But the full URL should work soon enough.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecifically, I was interested in being able to use the command line for my posts. Additionally, I didn’t mind seeing or using a little bit of code.↩︎\nSomeone has to host it (i.e., store and display all the files). I started off trying to set up a WordPress blog, but you have to pay another company to host. I didn’t want to bother.↩︎\nIf you try to set it up by following the instructions on jekyllrb.com, that’s the complicated way. That’s how I originally started, got lost for five hours, and stopped. Six months later, I found a better way.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/write-a-thousand-songs.html", - "href": "posts/write-a-thousand-songs.html", - "title": "Write a thousand songs", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", + "title": "Data Beats Opinions", "section": "", - "text": "I listened to an interview with Imagine Dragons. The lead singer talked about how he writes several songs per day.\nNo wonder he’s so successful. Repetitions breeds opportunity.\nThis has two affects on the brain. 1) lowers the pressure of individual songs. Don’t need to knock it of the park. 2) you get better at writing that much faster.\nI heard once about a photography that let one half of the students only take 5 photos in a semester. The other half had to take 100. Which group had the better photos?\n\nYou miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky Michael Scott\n\n\n\n\nMore shots is more opportunities for a goal. Worry about good shots later.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When I co-started a company several years ago, my founders and I would canvass neighborhoods knocking doors. We’d discuss our ideas for a new product one door at a time. After each conversation, the product took a new form. Eventually, the product took shape and we had a successful kickstarter launch.\nSince that time, I’ve thought about how valuable it was to get information straight from the source.\nAlberto Savoia’s new book, “The Right It”, is re-teaching me this principle. Data beats opinions, he says. In another book I’m reading, “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments”, the former CEO of Netscape is quoted saying,\n\nIf we have data, let’s go with data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. - Jim Barksdale\n\nData sourced from your manager, your stakeholder, or your customer are invaluable to help you know if you’re solving their problem. Too often it’s easy to get stuck in the original solution that comes to our mind.\nData from customers directly shape the product. Data sourced at scale from online experiments refine it.\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. Frequently, it’s challenging to correlate the two. We’re left to guess why someone actually clicked, bought, churned. It’s a beautiful cycle.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", - "title": "Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore", + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", + "title": "Learn by doing", "section": "", - "text": "Been here before, eh?\nI probably shouldn’t write this post considering I’ve also written posts “blogging with Jekyll”, “Blogdown”, and “distill” before. I’m flaky, what can I say. I’ve changed my blogging framework 7 times in 5 years (I started with blogger.com and Wordpress before Jekyll, and even used Medium for 25 posts.)\nBut it’s not my fault. There are too many static site generators and it seems that Rstudio is as flaky as me. Meaning, they built rmarkdown, created hugodown, blowdown, bookdown, and distill. Hugodown is a lightweight version of blogdown, and I never figured out why it exists. Then there’s workflowr and so many other great, random products out there.\nWhy quarto for me? It seems to have all the stuff that distill has, and then some. And given its design and collaboration with Wes McKinney (pandas guy) in building quarto, and given that Wes wrote his latest book with it, I think this will be here to stay for at least 5 years.\n\n\nWhy do I avoid Medium\nWhy don’t I blog with Medium? I wrote 25 posts there over 9 months and loved it. It makes writing and publishing incredibly easy, which is why I did it. With distill/blogdown the limiting factor was I’d have to be at my computer to get a post in. I love writing on my phone - I have over 2000 journal entries with Day One over seven years, several of which are “draft” posts for a blog that won’t see the light of day since I don’t care about them after I’ve written it. I want to be able to blog frequently, a short little blurb to keep up my writing, and medium enabled this.\nBut 1) I didn’t get many views (not that I care) and 2) my writing is stuck on their platform (confirmed to me this week as I’ve tried several old, broken tools that attempt to export posts out of medium).\nI got 50x the views on my blogdown site just from organic google searching. From reading other people’s posts about leaving Medium, it’s seems that most traffic to Medium posts comes from outside of Medium.\nSo while I’m certainly not into blogging for the money, I wouldn’t mind getting the content to people who it can help. And if medium didn’t enable this, what is its purpose?\nSo I’m back and finally decided that I’m going to own my own platform. Seth Godin wrote a blog about this topic once. Why be on Medium, substack, Facebook, etc or any other up an coming platform? We’ll they’re all skewed toward the 1% of people who make money on the platform. Everyone else is wasting their time. So might as well own your content. And better to focus on writing than waste time catching up on every platform.\nAlso, it’s fun! There’s a fuzzy feeling to blogging.\n\n\nFuture of quarto?\nI’m speculating here, but Quarto can be used withR Studio, Jupiter or VS Code. The last editor seems excitingly suspicious.\nPerhaps R Studio sees the writing on the wall that VS Code is taking over the IDE world and perhaps taking over the long term future of R Studio IDE. I personally don’t see why anyone would pay for R Studio when VS Code is free and has a better interface. And while R Studio has a few better integrations for R at the moment, it won’t once enough people see the light for VS Code and turn their contributions there. I’ve been using R on VSCode for two years now and it rivals R Studio in 95% of the feature set, but 100% has better window management.\nSo Quarto seems like a great opportunity for R Studio to begin monetizing on a publishing platform like R Studio connect. Platforms like Notion and Confluence are great for everyone except data scientists trying to share reproducible research. But a quarto server seems like a great way to finally bring in Python data scientists into the markdown-flavored documentation world. (Man, I personally can’t use Jupyter/Google colab notebooks when I can use R Markdown!) I’d heartedly welcome this prospect, though I have no idea what their plans for Quarto really are.\nTill next blog post about what blogging tool I’m going to use…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "TL;DR: Yes, unintelligent people can use things without fully understanding them\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany people have their noses up their ass when they claim you can't use an algorithm you don't fully understand.They give themselves this fake moral superiority. They must be the only ones who belong because they know every detail.This is all bullshit.Here are a few simple…\n\n— Santiago (@svpino) December 12, 2023\n\n\nWhile the language is perhaps a bit strong, I agree with the sentiment here.\nI don’t have a PhD but have been limited twice in my career by those who wish I had one. What would having a PhD give you that I don’t have?\nWell, I trust you more if you had one.\nJeremy Howard, a world renowned research and creator of fast.ai and answers.ai started his lectures on deep learning with “you don’t need to have a math degree, you just need to know a little bit of code”. With that philosophy he’s helped entrepreneurs create amazing products that left his free online program.\n\nBlindspots tho\nConcepts are important to understand. Understanding your training data and how the machines learn from them and the biases they’re prone to is very useful, perhaps mission critical, to creating value.\nSo what’s the line? Well, if you got a PhD you’d probably spend 80% of your time on your dissertation and taking some non relevant coursework. How does that help you today?\nWell, you should learn as many concepts as you can. Like driving a car, you don’t need to know hydroplaning but you should learn hydroplaning. You don’t need to know how to drive in snow but you should know that driving a car in the snow with rear wheel drive is a different experience.\nIf you live in Arizona you don’t need to know how to drive in the snow. Your bias is you’ll never know why that would be necessary.\n\n\nPrinciple\nBe so curious that you explore the boundaries of your space such that you learn “oh, cars work differently in snow, but I don’t have snow so I’m safe”. Once you reach the boundary you probably know enough. Then ship your code and learn by how you messed things up.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.html", - "title": "The Allegory of the Dodo", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", + "title": "Get rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.", "section": "", - "text": "The scoop\nThere’s a great kids book, called “There’s a dodo on the wedding cake”.\nSo there’s this dodo, right, who walks in and hops on a cake. The attending violinist then scares it away and is praised for protecting the cake.\nTo the reader’s delight, more animals start appearing and the violinist excitedly protects the cake through hilarious misadventure. (My favorite is when he says, “begone beavers!”)\nTwo funny things happen though:\n\nThe guy soon realizes that all these creatures are wedding guests.\nThe guy has such a big nose and he’s allergic to marshmallows, that when he’s offered some cake he sneezes and the cake goes flying.\n\n\n\n\ndodo on a cake\n\n\n\n\nMorale?\n\nWhen you praise someone for doing something good, they do it again and again. → There’s a natural hero inside all of us.\nBut only the first animal was a problem. The beavers were the chefs. So he ends up creating all these problems thinking they’re problems. → In tech, when you fix a bug you then think other things are bugs and go off fixing those too. No, just do the first. Then check in.\nThe irony is that, despite saving the cake, he sneezes and ruins the cake. → Despite all the effort, the greatest protection to the cake was him staying away from it. Sometimes by trying to solve a problem we can make things way worse and create all these problems. (Politics? Create problems by creating solutions to problems that need solutions.)\n\nDon’t mistake a beaver for a dodo. But don’t mistake a dodo for a wedding guest.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’ve had less meetings and more unstructured time during WFH. It can be isolating, which can slow down productivity.\nHere’s a tip I read today on how to be productive with unstructured time: put your to-do list directly into a calendar.\nThat way, you’ll always have time for the important things. Remove the things that take up your time and aren’t as important. I like it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", - "title": "When data collection goes too far", + "objectID": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", + "href": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", + "title": "Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy", "section": "", - "text": "Self Surveillance\nI came across this article in Flowing Data and thought it was fascinating.\nI’ve been on a productivity kick lately and notice these apps have habit trackers. I’ve tried using them in the past and have realized it gets too much too quickly. But that doesn’t mean as a data guy that I don’t think it’s a cool idea. It just overwhelms me.\nWe’ll I discovered that me tracking a few habits a day is junior varsity level. Felix’s blog is how it’s done to the extreme. Clearly this guy isn’t worried about Big Tech or Big Government harvesting his personal data. I love the boldness!\nThis is just 1/20th of the full page screen shot:\n\nThe number of slices and views he has is endless. It’s crazy to see everything he’s tracking, partly I’m sure because he has fun with it and the other part because he deep down hopes there’s something there.\nHis quote on Flowing Data has stuck with me:\n\nOverall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.\n\nThis guy probably knows himself in a way that none of us ever will. He can’t ever lie to himself and say “yea, I’m good at exercising every day” because he’s got the data to back it up. But is this the life we want?\n\n\nSelf Surveillance as a Service\nSSaaS? Apparently. Exist.io tries to find patterns in your personal data and tell you when your most happy.\n\n\n\nExist.io\n\n\nWhen I researched the Apple Watch team a few years back I came to appreciate what they were/are trying to do: correlate heart monitoring with insurance claims data to proactively identify preemptive signs of cardiac arrest and other health issues.\nThat seems meaningful in theory because information about other people can be correlated with information about me.\nBut does info about myself correlate with info about myself? Probably. I have cycles. I have common traps and pitfalls like any human walking this earth. Some pitfalls are daily, some are quarterly or seasonal.\nBut I can also take 5 minutes to ponder reflectively or talk to a close friend and identify those patterns. What’s more human?\nAnd what’s more: if you end up changing your behavior then your past can’t really predict your future. So all of the data becomes moot once it achieves its purpose: true lasting change. Because if you truly change your behavior based on the insights you glean about yourself, those past triggers and anomalies no longer affect you in the way they did. So when you experience a personal step change in life, you’re a new you. Maybe not. But maybe.\nAlso, the new generations growing up on smartphones have a unique challenge: their online identities are given to them before they’re really conscious enough to determine if that’s what they want to show the world. Parents posting YouTube or TikToks of their kids are cementing for these kids an identity they themselves didn’t choose. We’ve all gone through phases of deleting Facebook photos from 15 years ago because it doesn’t reflect our current self image. What’s to be said of giving people an opportunity to change if everything they’ve ever said or done is recorded somewhere? Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. Every post is cementing us in a way.\nI think it’s better to forget yesterday. Because it doesn’t have to have any bearing on where you’re going tomorrow. It can if you let it. But your past doesn’t have to define you.\n\n\nTakeaways\nWould you rather spend hours setting up digital automatic and manual tracking systems just to learn what you could by opening a gratitude journal every day? Sometimes less is more. I don’t think digital self surveillance is a direction we should go. (Not to mention the moment you do get hacked you’ll deeply regret it.)\nEven blogging can be dangerous for your career. Never know what’s gonna come back to haunt you years later.\nSo I should be careful what I say here, that is if I ever care to work for a self surveillance company in the future.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Just watched this clip:\n\nImportant discussion points: as a novice you’re worried about where to go or picking the wrong thing.\nI remember not taking an opportunity to learn C++ because “that’s not what I want to do”. In another occasion I wanted to learn PySpark over SQL because Python…\nWhile I don’t regret that choice per se, because I chose something else I was interested in, I’ve largely come to realize that I don’t care what programming language I’m using. I care about getting the job done.\nAlso, I’m probably over the 10,000 hours of something, I just don’t know what. Am I an ML expert? Data expert? SQL? Python? R?\nIs it the application of the skill that makes you an expert? I’m not sure. Because I think novices can do some incredible things if they hone in.\nIf you read one book on a topic, you’re by no means an “expert”, but you probably know more about that topic than 99% of the nation. I learned this when I spent 6 months diving into the home security industry for my first job. Pretty sure I knew more about that than anyone I spoke to. Was I an expert? I really only had maybe 300 hours. Maybe I was inexperienced. Sure.\nAnd who spends literally 10,000 hours on any one thing? Like 10,000 hours on XGBoost? Image classification? Deep learning? Machine learning? A/B testing? Spreadsheets? Generalist vs specialist, etc. if you’re an ML scientist at Google, you worry about very different things than an ML scientist at a startup. At a startup, you worry about your bigquery allocation and pipeline failures. At Google you worry about what your 5th skip VP is going to deprecate that month.\nThat’s just the nature of education. There are so many things in the world to know…that being an “expert” is a relative thing. But I agree that working hard and learning useful things helps you innovate faster.\n\n\n\nI’d change my opinion on being an expert if I needed to beat Rocky.\n\n\nLast thing, the crux is: don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to yourself. That’s how you assess your progress.\nBut I’d argue: why even compare yourself to yourself? Compare your solution to the problem. Does it matter if you have 10,000 hours? No. What matters is if the solution fits. This is why innovations and disruptions come from unexpected places: because novices can nail solutions.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.html", - "href": "posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.html", - "title": "The Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative", + "objectID": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", + "href": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", + "title": "The Compounding Interest of Reading", "section": "", - "text": "The easiest thing one can do is see the world through their own viewpoints. It takes no effort. Takes no work. It’s already done: your viewpoints are there. Either you care about climate change today or you don’t. Either you care about opossums or you don’t. You are who you are, right now.\nThe only gap between who you are today and who you are tomorrow is what you learn and experience and how you see the world because of what you learn and experience.\nYou learn from others. You learn from your experiences. You learn from other’s experiences.\nThe goal isn’t to be right. The goal is to understand.\nAnd so, I believe in the value of learning from those around me, especially those I disagree with. It’s hard work to grind through walls of disbelief or misunderstanding. But it’s always worth it, even if at the other side you merely understand. That in and of itself is a destination worth pursuing because of the many benefits it yields.\nBut beware, with an assumption of understanding comes peril. Therefore, the goal is to constantly seek understanding, because no person is every the same one day to the next.\n\n\n\nSeeing through a glass darkly and then clearly\n\n\nSources: - How to Win Friends and Influence People - the constant focus of the book is to put yourself in the other’s shoes. - Greenlights African tribe: don’t seek to be right. Seek to understand. - The Coddling of the American Mind - tribalism is when you don’t see another’s viewpoint and only feel you are right.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m on my way to get 52 books read this year. I think I can do it.\nBut it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?\nBecause of compounding interest. One book doesn’t level you up. But multiple books over time will affect you for a long while to come.\nIf you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).\nSo don’t worry what any one book gives you. Just keep investing. A few will pay off big, and the many “wasted” will have little downside.\n\n\n\nImage: compound interest and reading a book\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html", @@ -3073,7 +3080,7 @@ "href": "sitemap.html", "title": "Sitemap (All Posts)", "section": "", - "text": "<li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/posts/the-power-of-a-good-book.md\">The Power of a Good Book</a> [posts,ai,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/book-review/1984.md\">1984</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/private-gpt.md\">Private GPT</a> [tech,ai tools,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/lm-studio.md\">LM Studio</a> [tech,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/gpt4all.md\">GPT4All</a> [tech,ai tools,edge device,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/beam-ai.md\">Beam AI</a> [tech,ai tools,ai,local ai,privacy,edge device,closed source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-02.md\">2024-02-02</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/compliments.md\">I'm Grateful for Compliments</a> [gratitude,leadership,charity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-19-yieldeth-himself.md\">1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md\">The Old Man and the Sea</a> [book-review,fiction,classics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.md\">Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian</a> [posts,tutorial,python,libby,quarto,blogging]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-01.md\">2024-02-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.md\">1 Nephi 19.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-18-prayer.md\">1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer</a> [christianity,come follow me,prayer,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/the-loop.md\">The Loop</a> [book-review,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion.md\">Influence The Psychology of Persuasion</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-31.md\">2024-01-31</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.md\">1 Nephi 17.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.21.md\">1 Nephi 18.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.3.md\">1 Nephi 18.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-17-strength.md\">1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us</a> [christianity,come follow me,strength,trust in the Lord]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/youtube.md\">I'm Grateful for YouTube</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-30.md\">2024-01-30</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-16-christ-guides-us.md\">1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways</a> [christianity,prayer,revelation,hand of the Lord,come follow me,gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/rescue-workers.md\">I'm Grateful for Rescue Workers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-tyranny-of-experts.md\">The Tyranny of Experts</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.md\">Bread in the Oven</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-29.md\">2024-01-29</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.md\">1 Nephi 16.25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.md\">1 Nephi 16.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.md\">2 Nephi 2.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-82.10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 82.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.14.md\">Ether 2.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.16.md\">Ether 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.5.md\">Ether 2.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.6.md\">Ether 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.36-38.md\">Luke 7.36–38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.39.md\">Luke 7.39</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-15.46.md\">Mark 15.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-12.40.md\">Matthew 12.40</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-6.8.md\">Matthew 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.7.md\">Mosiah 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-28-jan-28-1-nephi-11-15.md\">2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.md\">Bread given freely, like His life</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/imagination.md\">I'm Grateful for Imagination</a> [gratitude,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.md\">Sunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-dress]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.md\">Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.md\">Porous Bread</a> [sacrament-symbols,prayer,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-28.md\">2024-01-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.md\">1 Nephi 14.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.md\">1 Nephi 15.23–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.md\">3 Nephi 18.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.md\">Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.md\">Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/deuteronomy-21.22-23.md\">Deuteronomy 21.22–23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.md\">Ephesians 6.10–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/exodus-12.46.md\">Exodus 12.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-10.17-18.md\">John 10.17–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.31-33.md\">John 19.31–33</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.36.md\">John 19.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/numbers-9.12.md\">Numbers 9.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/psalm-34.19-20.md\">Psalm 34.19–20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/chirping-birds.md\">I'm Grateful for Chirping Birds</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-27.md\">2024-01-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.24.md\">1 Nephi 15.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-15-hearken-and-hold-fast.md\">1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast</a> [christianity,come follow me,obedience]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.md\">Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks</a> [posts,data science,featured,career,recommendation systems,A/B testing,analytics,beginners]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/rock-climbing.md\">I'm Grateful for Rock Climbing</a> [gratitude,adventure,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-26.md\">2024-01-26</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.7.md\">1 Nephi 14.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-14-convincing-unto-peace.md\">1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/book-review/greenlights.md\">Greenlights</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.md\">The Only Mind that's Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative</a> [posts,my principles,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-perspectives.md\">I'm Grateful for New Perspectives</a> [gratitude,perspective,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-25.md\">2024-01-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.37.md\">1 Nephi 13.37</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-13-publish-peace.md\">1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/challenges.md\">I'm Grateful for Challenges</a> [gratitude,challenges]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/book-review/wool.md\">Wool</a> [book-review,apocalyptic,fiction,dystopian,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-24.md\">2024-01-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-12-broad-roads.md\">1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.md\">The Coddling of the American Mind</a> [book-review,psychology,politics,education]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.md\">I'm Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-23-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-23</a> [news,ai,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.md\">Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author</a> [posts,communication,writing,art]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-23.md\">2024-01-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-12.17.md\">1 Nephi 12.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/turn-to-god-not-your-idols.md\">Turn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols</a> [christianity,scripture of the day,prayer,faith,consecration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-11-seeing-signs-of-christ.md\">1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi</a> [christianity,come follow me,faith]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/early-morning-workouts.md\">I'm Grateful for Early Morning Workouts</a> [gratitude,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-22.md\">2024-01-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.md\">1 Nephi 11.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.md\">2 Nephi 32.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-6.36.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 6.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.28-30.md\">Matthew 11.28–30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.md\">Matthew 16.1–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.md\">\"Think Celestial!\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-21-jan-21.md\">2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/similarities.md\">I'm Grateful for Similarities</a> [gratitude,memories,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/book-review/saints-book-1-the-standard-of-truth-1815-1846.md\">Saints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/concepts/sacrament-covenant.md\">Sacramental Covenant</a> [concepts,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.md\">Receive the Holy Ghost</a> [sacrament-symbols,christianity,symbol-receive]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-21.md\">2024-01-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.md\">18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/acts-10.45.md\">Acts 10.45</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/articles-of-faith-1.4.md\">Articles of Faith 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-33.15.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 33.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-35.6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 35.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-39.23.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 39.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-49.14.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 49.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.md\">Gift of the Holy Ghost</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/jacob-6.8.md\">Jacob 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.16-18.md\">John 14.16–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.25-26.md\">John 14.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.26.md\">John 15.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-16.7.md\">John 16.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-20.22.md\">John 20.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-4.3.md\">Moroni 4.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-5.2.md\">Moroni 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-5.58.md\">Moses 5.58</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-choosing-to-press-forward.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually</a> [christianity,come follow me,love,love of God,agency]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/social-gatherings.md\">I'm Grateful for Social Gatherings</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md\">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-20.md\">2024-01-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.md\">1 Nephi 10.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.md\">1 Nephi 8.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.md\">Matthew 16.24–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/baby-formula.md\">I'm Grateful for Baby Formula</a> [gratitude,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.md\">The Wealth of Nations</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-inklings.md\">The Inklings</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-19-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-19</a> [news,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-10-rely-on-the-redeemer.md\">1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-19.md\">2024-01-19</a> [goals,tabata]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-9.4.md\">1 Nephi 9.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-9-write-with-a-purpose.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.md\">I'm Grateful for Things I Don't Understand</a> [gratitude,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-18.md\">2024-01-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.md\">1 Nephi 8.27–28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-93.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/news/ai-news-01.md\">AI News Recap</a> [news,ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/music.md\">I'm Grateful for Music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/the-power-of-habitual-prayer.md\">The Power of Habitual Prayer</a> [christianity,my testimony,personal stories,prayer,scripture of the day,book of mormon,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-what-others-think.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-17.md\">2024-01-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.md\">1 Nephi 3.31</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-34.26.md\">Alma 34.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-7.3.md\">Matthew 7.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-21.15.md\">Mosiah 21.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-23.28.md\">Mosiah 23.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.14.md\">Mosiah 27.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.16.md\">Mosiah 27.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-7-commitment.md\">1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don't go Halvsies</a> [christianity,commitment,learning,epistemology,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.md\">The Problem with Public Opinions</a> [posts,philosophy,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/book-review/paradise-lost-and-paradise-regained.md\">Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/open-source.md\">I'm Grateful for Open Source</a> [gratitude,tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-16.md\">2024-01-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.1.md\">1 Nephi 11.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.4.md\">1 Nephi 6.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.md\">1 Nephi 6.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.md\">1 Nephi 7.15–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/revelation-3.16.md\">Revelation 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-6-god-of-the-covenant.md\">1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/ice-skating.md\">I'm Grateful for Ice Skating</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-15.md\">2024-01-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-5-trusting-a-promise.md\">1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?</a> [christianity,faith,covenant,individual covenant,promised blessings,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/heaven.md\">I'm Grateful for Heaven</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/concepts/president-russel-m-nelson.md\">President Russel M. Nelson</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/sacrament-talk-on-missionary-work.md\">A Church Culture of Missionary work</a> [christianity,opinion,lds culture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/support-beams-represent-the-cross.md\">Architecture Reminds Me of His Cross</a> [sacrament symbol,christianity,scripture of the day,symbol-cross]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/creative/cuddles.md\">Cuddles</a> [creative,poem,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-14.md\">2024-01-14</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.md\">1 Nephi 4.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.8.md\">1 Nephi 5.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-40.6-9.md\">Alma 40.6–9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.4.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.5-6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.8.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-1.38.md\">Ether 1.38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/hope-of-israel.md\">Hope of Israel</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.31-32.md\">Moses 6.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-4.9.md\">Mosiah 4.9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/healing.md\">I'm Grateful for Healing</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-4-why-not.md\">1 Nephi 4 - Why not?</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-slow-blink.md\">Slow Blink</a> [creative,poem,babies,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.md\">Stairwell scoop</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-13.md\">2024-01-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-3-dreamed-a-dream.md\">1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.md\">You can plan your life in 5 minutes</a> [posts,purpose of life]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/my-childhood.md\">I'm Grateful for My Childhood</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-bound.md\">Bound</a> [creative,poem,parenting,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/junk-attracts-junk.md\">Junk attracts Junk</a> [posts,laws of human nature,observations,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-12.md\">2024-01-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.md\">1 Nephi 2.11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.md\">1 Nephi 3.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.md\">1 Nephi 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.md\">1 Nephi 5.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/creative/poem-lint.md\">Lint</a> [babies,parenting,poem,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.md\">Biden's debt relief won't relieve what he thinks it will</a> [posts,politics,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-11.md\">goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/strollers.md\">I'm Grateful for Strollers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-2-receiving-a-promised-land.md\">1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land</a> [christianity,covenant,individual covenant,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/lists/scripture-study-list.md\">List of Study Topics</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/concepts/christian.md\">Christian</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/find-the-fun.md\">Find the Fun</a> [christianity,parenting,mental health,mindfulness,philosophy,tech,A/B testing,mindset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.md\">AI and the Future of SaaS</a> [news,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.md\">1 Nephi 2.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.md\">1 Nephi 2.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.md\">The Quest for Cosmic Justice</a> [book-review,economics,social justice,politics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/cool-quarto-site.md\">Cool Quarto Site</a> [posts,quarto,tech,coding]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/lists/news.md\">Newsletters I follow</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/stop-trying-to-change-people.md\">Stop trying to change people. Stop it.</a> [christianity,prayer,agency,mindfulness,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-10.md\">Goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/1-Nephi-1-he-prepares-us-to-teach-us.md\">1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,book of mormon,revelation,prophets,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.md\">Listening to 'This is the Christ' right now, grateful for good music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-14-jan-14.md\">2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/gratus-sum-ergo-habeo.md\">Gratus sum, ergo habeo</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.md\">The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/my-mission.md\">my mission</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/small-things.md\">I'm grateful for small things</a> [gratitude,christianity,book of mormon,scripture of the day,retrospective,philosophy,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/sandwich-shops.md\">I'm Grateful for Sandwich Shops</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/the-six-hour-sandwich.md\">The six hour sandwich</a> [posts,sales,life musings,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.md\">1 Nephi 1.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.md\">1 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.7-8.md\">1 Nephi 1.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.md\">2 Nephi 28.30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-37.7.md\">Alma 37.7</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-4.31-32.md\">Mark 4.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-1-praying-for-other-people.md\">1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.md\">This drug is habit forming</a> [tech,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/the-matrix.md\">The Matrix: Social Media's Influence on Human Interaction</a> [social media,digital minimalism,tech,modern living]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.md\">The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle</a> [book-review,history,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/whats-your-decision-framework.md\">What's your decision framework?</a> [posts,insights from books,investing,memories,personal stories,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/organization-and-minimalism.md\">Organization and Minimalism</a> [posts,minimalism,organization,software,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-09.md\">Workout</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/lists/reading-ethos.md\">Reading Ethos</a> [posts,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/audiobooks.md\">Audiobooks</a> [gratitude,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/christianity/scriptures-within-scriptures.md\">Scriptures within Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day,scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/book-review/dune-messiah.md\">Dune: Messiah</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/lists/legal-ai.md\">Legal AI</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/toothbrush.md\">I'm Grateful for the Toothbrush</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.md\">A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I'm off Social Media</a> [tech,personal experiments,A/B testing,social media,big tech,incentives,decisions,relationships,ai,emotional intelligence,purpose of life,digital minimalism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-08.md\">Body: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata</a> [workout]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.7.md\">1 Nephi 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.21.md\">1 Nephi 5.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.10.md\">1 Nephi 8.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.26.md\">2 Nephi 25.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.md\">2 Nephi 9.51</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/the-thief-of-time.md\">The Thief of Time</a> [creative,time,parenting,perspective,deep thought]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/posts/becoming-an-expert.md\">Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy</a> [posts,personal development,growth,grit,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/concepts/hand-of-god.md\">Hand of God</a> [christianity,concept]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/my-testimony-2024-01-07.md\">My testimony: Moving across the Country</a> [christianity,fast sunday,my testimony,memories,let god prevail]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/what-does-it-mean-to-preside.md\">What does it mean to preside?</a> [christianity,book of mormon,doctrine and covenants,priesthood,leadership,the family a proclamation to the world,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.md\">Vaulted Ceilings</a> [christianity,sacrament symbol,symbol-architecture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-07-jan-7.md\">2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/cars.md\">Cars</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/red-eyed.md\">Red eyed</a> [creative,deep thought,funny,perspective,hypothetical,angle of vision]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.5.md\">1 Nephi 5.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.md\">3 Nephi 10.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.md\">\"The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power\", Dale G. Renlund</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-107.60-62.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 107.60–62</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.md\">Ephesians 4.4–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/introduction.md\">Introduction</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-3.16.md\">John 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures,sacrament]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-5.7-8.md\">Mosiah 5.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.md\">'Make Time for the Lord', Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.md\">\"The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/the-family-proclamation.md\">The Family Proclamation</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/haircuts.md\">I'm Grateful for Haircuts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.md\">AI won't replace us. We'll always create.</a> [tech,ai,futurism,humanity,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.md\">Mark Cuban Mogul Support</a> [posts,entrepreneurship,YouTube clip]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cabinet-handle.md\">Cabinet Handle</a> [creative,poem,babies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/time.md\">Time</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.28.md\">alma-32.28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-10.4.md\">moroni-10.4</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/christianity/how-to-use-the-book-of-mormon.md\">How I use the Book of Mormon</a> [christianity,book of mormon,testimony,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.9.md\">2 Nephi 32.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.md\">The Dove (Forevermore)</a> [creative,poem,poetry,parenting,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/hard-work.md\">Hard Work and its Reward</a> [gratitude,perspective,effort,life lessons,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.md\">What startups and musicians have in common</a> [tech,startups,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.md\">The future wave of AI hype</a> [tech,news,chart critique]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/write-a-thousand-songs.md\">Write a thousand songs</a> [posts,creativity,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/losing-to-yesmen.md\">When Leaders Lose their People</a> [posts,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.md\">The Multiverse of Careers</a> [posts,meditation,deathbed meditation,career,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives.md\">russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.34-36.md\">alma-32.34-36</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.15-17.md\">matthew-16.15-17</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-18.26-28.md\">alma-18.26-28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/christianity/a-change-in-witness.md\">When a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,epistemology,theology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/30-seconds-for-payment.md\">30 Seconds is All You Get</a> [music,economics,incentives,posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.9.md\">mosiah-18.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.md\">testimony-of-eight-witnesses</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/leviticus-19.18.md\">leviticus-19.18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/leonardo-da-vinci.md\">Leonardo da Vinci</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs-biography.md\">Steve Jobs (Biography)</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/love-thy-neighbor-but-have-friends.md\">Love Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends</a> [christianity,love,family,friendship]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/share-your-testimony.md\">Share your testimony</a> [christianity,testimony]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/zoom.md\">Zoom</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/lists/writing-ethos.md\">Writing Ethos</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/my-tombstone.md\">My Tombstone</a> [posts,mortality,work,work life balance,perspective,meditation,priorities]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/your-mood-is-contagious.md\">Your Mood is Contagious</a> [posts,leadership,parenting,emotional resilience,grit]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/tech/dreaming-software.md\">The Dream State of Software</a> [tech,design,ai,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.16-18.md\">alma-32.16-18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-5.45.md\">matthew-5.45</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.md\">1-kings-19.11-12</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.5.md\">mosiah-3.5</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/lists/gratitude-backlog.md\">Things I'm grateful for</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/innovators-dilemma.md\">Innovator's Dilemma</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/socrates-a-life-worth-living.md\">\"Socrates A Life Worth Living\" by Devra Lehman</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-miracles-of-christ.md\">The Miracles of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,miracles,faith,signs]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/good-books.md\">Good Books</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/tech/why-we-want-new-software.md\">The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion</a> [business strategy,saas,sales,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/rest.md\">I'm grateful for rest</a> [gratitude,observations]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/christianity/cfm-2023-12-31-rev-15-21.md\">Come follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21</a> [christianity,come follow me,raw notes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/eyes.md\">Eyes</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.md\">Replacing human work with AI</a> [tech,ai,automation,decisions,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/beaches.md\">Beaches</a> [gratitude,water,beach,sunset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/emotional-recovery.md\">Emotional Recovery</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/water-as-a-currency.md\">Water as a Currency?</a> [posts,water,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/creative/poem-timeless.md\">Timeless</a> [poem,poetry,parenting,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.md\">Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto</a> [obsidian,quarto,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.md\">Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog</a> [quarto,obsidian,pkm,build in public,tool,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md\">How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices</a> [decisions,philosophy,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/decisions-are-rivers.md\">Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft</a> [decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.md\">97 percent chance you'll fail</a> [success,decisions,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin.md\">Flipping the coins of life</a> [philosophy,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.md\">Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision</a> [decisions,storytelling,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-empty-tomb.md\">Post Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs</a> [christianity,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/unknown-god.md\">An Unknown God</a> [christianity,theology,faith,doubts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/grateful-for-artists.md\">I'm grateful for artists</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.md\">I'm grateful for blankets</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.md\">Things I'd like in a blog</a> [productivity,quarto]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-from-phone/index.md\">How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian</a> [productivity,tech,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/write-despite-ai/index.md\">Write despite AI</a> [ai,humanity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.md\">Writing is truly enlivening</a> [communication,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-25-grateful-for-doctors/index.md\">I'm grateful for doctors</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.md\">AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans</a> [ai,tech,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/let-your-light-so-shine.md\">His is the light that we should share</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/the-christ-child.md\">The Christ Child</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.md\">Light</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.md\">Twas the Night before Christmas</a> [christmas,ask gpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/dune.md\">Dune</a> [book-review,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-best-of-edgar-allen-poe.md\">The Best of Edgar Allen Poe</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-22 <a href=\"/book-review/killers-of-the-flower-moon.md\">Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a> [storytelling,murder mystery,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-github-copilot-levels-up/index.md\">GitHub copilot levels up</a> [ai,productivity,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.md\">The Allegory of the Dodo</a> [productivity,business,kids books]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/book-review/unbelievable.md\">Unbelievable</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/posts/the-little-red-hen.md\">The Little Red Hen</a> [book review,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.md\">101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest</a> [philosophy,mindfulness,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-19-how-to-encourage-your-kids-/index.md\">How to encourage your kids</a> [parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-18 <a href=\"/book-review/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.md\">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> [storytelling,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-17 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-celebrates-a-living-christ.md\">Christmas celebrates a Living Christ</a> [christianity,ai,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-16 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-16-humanity-and-ai/index.md\">What is humanity</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.md\">LLMs can find a needle in the haystack</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-prompt-techniques/index.md\">Prompt techniques</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-14 <a href=\"/lists/ai.md\">Cool AI Tweets</a> [tech,futurism,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/christianity/three-little-pigs-christ.md\">Three Little Pigs</a> [book review,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.md\">Learn by doing</a> [data science,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/book-review/scientific-freedom.md\">Scientific Freedom</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-12-future-of-coding/index.md\">Future of Coding</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.md\">How do you want to be remembered?</a> [leadership,service]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-15-chatgpt-rshiny/index.md\">Building a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT</a> [data science,r,shiny,futurism,chatgpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-06 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.md\">Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science</a> [tech,startups,business,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.md\">Resume Substance over Style</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.md\">Writing a Tech Resume</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-12 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.md\">What is a model?</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.md\">De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person</a> [data science,communication,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-03 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.md\">When data collection goes too far</a> [productivity,futurism,tech,surveillance]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.md\">Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything</a> [productivity,musings,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.md\">Pomodoro Principles</a> [productivity,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-25 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.md\">How I use TickTick</a> [productivity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-things-done.md\">Getting Things Done</a> [productivity,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-new-ideas-are-distractingly-exciting/index.md\">New ideas are distractingly exciting</a> [productivity,priorities,ideation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.md\">What is the best todo list manager?</a> [productivity,app review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.md\">Downstream Impact</a> [data science,experimentation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.md\">Products for dads</a> [productivity,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.md\">The Power of Party Pay by Visible</a> [startups,strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.md\">Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-04-30 <a href=\"/book-review/never-split-the-difference.md\">Never Split the Difference</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-05-03 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-habit.md\">The Power of Habit</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2015-12-01 <a href=\"/lists/reading-list.md\">Reading List</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2000-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/test.md\">test</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Yieldeth Himself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md\">The Old Man and the Sea</a> [book-review,fiction,classics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.md\">Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian</a> [posts,tutorial,python,libby,quarto,blogging]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-01.md\">2024-02-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.md\">1 Nephi 19.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-18-prayer.md\">1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer</a> [christianity,come follow me,prayer,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/the-loop.md\">The Loop</a> [book-review,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion.md\">Influence The Psychology of Persuasion</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-31.md\">2024-01-31</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.md\">1 Nephi 17.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.21.md\">1 Nephi 18.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.3.md\">1 Nephi 18.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-17-strength.md\">1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us</a> [christianity,come follow me,strength,trust in the Lord]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/youtube.md\">I'm Grateful for YouTube</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-30.md\">2024-01-30</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-16-christ-guides-us.md\">1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways</a> [christianity,prayer,revelation,hand of the Lord,come follow me,gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/rescue-workers.md\">I'm Grateful for Rescue Workers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-tyranny-of-experts.md\">The Tyranny of Experts</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.md\">Bread in the Oven</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-29.md\">2024-01-29</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.md\">1 Nephi 16.25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.md\">1 Nephi 16.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.md\">2 Nephi 2.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-82.10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 82.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.14.md\">Ether 2.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.16.md\">Ether 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.5.md\">Ether 2.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.6.md\">Ether 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.36-38.md\">Luke 7.36–38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.39.md\">Luke 7.39</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-15.46.md\">Mark 15.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-12.40.md\">Matthew 12.40</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-6.8.md\">Matthew 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.7.md\">Mosiah 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-28-jan-28-1-nephi-11-15.md\">2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.md\">Bread given freely, like His life</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/imagination.md\">I'm Grateful for Imagination</a> [gratitude,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.md\">Sunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-dress]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.md\">Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.md\">Porous Bread</a> [sacrament-symbols,prayer,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-28.md\">2024-01-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.md\">1 Nephi 14.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.md\">1 Nephi 15.23–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.md\">3 Nephi 18.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.md\">Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.md\">Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/deuteronomy-21.22-23.md\">Deuteronomy 21.22–23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.md\">Ephesians 6.10–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/exodus-12.46.md\">Exodus 12.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-10.17-18.md\">John 10.17–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.31-33.md\">John 19.31–33</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.36.md\">John 19.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/numbers-9.12.md\">Numbers 9.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/psalm-34.19-20.md\">Psalm 34.19–20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/chirping-birds.md\">I'm Grateful for Chirping Birds</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-27.md\">2024-01-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.24.md\">1 Nephi 15.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-15-hearken-and-hold-fast.md\">1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast</a> [christianity,come follow me,obedience]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.md\">Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks</a> [posts,data science,featured,career,recommendation systems,A/B testing,analytics,beginners]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/rock-climbing.md\">I'm Grateful for Rock Climbing</a> [gratitude,adventure,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-26.md\">2024-01-26</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.7.md\">1 Nephi 14.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-14-convincing-unto-peace.md\">1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/book-review/greenlights.md\">Greenlights</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.md\">The Only Mind that's Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative</a> [posts,my principles,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-perspectives.md\">I'm Grateful for New Perspectives</a> [gratitude,perspective,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-25.md\">2024-01-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.37.md\">1 Nephi 13.37</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-13-publish-peace.md\">1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/challenges.md\">I'm Grateful for Challenges</a> [gratitude,challenges]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/book-review/wool.md\">Wool</a> [book-review,apocalyptic,fiction,dystopian,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-24.md\">2024-01-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-12-broad-roads.md\">1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.md\">The Coddling of the American Mind</a> [book-review,psychology,politics,education]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.md\">I'm Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-23-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-23</a> [news,ai,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.md\">Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author</a> [posts,communication,writing,art]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-23.md\">2024-01-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-12.17.md\">1 Nephi 12.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/turn-to-god-not-your-idols.md\">Turn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols</a> [christianity,scripture of the day,prayer,faith,consecration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-11-seeing-signs-of-christ.md\">1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi</a> [christianity,come follow me,faith]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/early-morning-workouts.md\">I'm Grateful for Early Morning Workouts</a> [gratitude,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-22.md\">2024-01-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.md\">1 Nephi 11.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.md\">2 Nephi 32.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-6.36.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 6.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.28-30.md\">Matthew 11.28–30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.md\">Matthew 16.1–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.md\">\"Think Celestial!\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-21-jan-21.md\">2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/similarities.md\">I'm Grateful for Similarities</a> [gratitude,memories,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/book-review/saints-book-1-the-standard-of-truth-1815-1846.md\">Saints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/concepts/sacrament-covenant.md\">Sacramental Covenant</a> [concepts,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.md\">Receive the Holy Ghost</a> [sacrament-symbols,christianity,symbol-receive]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-21.md\">2024-01-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.md\">18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/acts-10.45.md\">Acts 10.45</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/articles-of-faith-1.4.md\">Articles of Faith 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-33.15.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 33.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-35.6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 35.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-39.23.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 39.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-49.14.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 49.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.md\">Gift of the Holy Ghost</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/jacob-6.8.md\">Jacob 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.16-18.md\">John 14.16–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.25-26.md\">John 14.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.26.md\">John 15.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-16.7.md\">John 16.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-20.22.md\">John 20.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-4.3.md\">Moroni 4.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-5.2.md\">Moroni 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-5.58.md\">Moses 5.58</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-choosing-to-press-forward.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually</a> [christianity,come follow me,love,love of God,agency]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/social-gatherings.md\">I'm Grateful for Social Gatherings</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md\">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-20.md\">2024-01-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.md\">1 Nephi 10.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.md\">1 Nephi 8.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.md\">Matthew 16.24–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/baby-formula.md\">I'm Grateful for Baby Formula</a> [gratitude,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.md\">The Wealth of Nations</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-inklings.md\">The Inklings</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-19-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-19</a> [news,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-10-rely-on-the-redeemer.md\">1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-19.md\">2024-01-19</a> [goals,tabata]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-9.4.md\">1 Nephi 9.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-9-write-with-a-purpose.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.md\">I'm Grateful for Things I Don't Understand</a> [gratitude,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-18.md\">2024-01-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.md\">1 Nephi 8.27–28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-93.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/news/ai-news-01.md\">AI News Recap</a> [news,ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/music.md\">I'm Grateful for Music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/the-power-of-habitual-prayer.md\">The Power of Habitual Prayer</a> [christianity,my testimony,personal stories,prayer,scripture of the day,book of mormon,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-what-others-think.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-17.md\">2024-01-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.md\">1 Nephi 3.31</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-34.26.md\">Alma 34.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-7.3.md\">Matthew 7.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-21.15.md\">Mosiah 21.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-23.28.md\">Mosiah 23.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.14.md\">Mosiah 27.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.16.md\">Mosiah 27.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-7-commitment.md\">1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don't go Halvsies</a> [christianity,commitment,learning,epistemology,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.md\">The Problem with Public Opinions</a> [posts,philosophy,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/book-review/paradise-lost-and-paradise-regained.md\">Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/open-source.md\">I'm Grateful for Open Source</a> [gratitude,tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-16.md\">2024-01-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.1.md\">1 Nephi 11.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.4.md\">1 Nephi 6.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.md\">1 Nephi 6.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.md\">1 Nephi 7.15–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/revelation-3.16.md\">Revelation 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-6-god-of-the-covenant.md\">1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/ice-skating.md\">I'm Grateful for Ice Skating</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-15.md\">2024-01-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-5-trusting-a-promise.md\">1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?</a> [christianity,faith,covenant,individual covenant,promised blessings,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/heaven.md\">I'm Grateful for Heaven</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/concepts/president-russel-m-nelson.md\">President Russel M. Nelson</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/sacrament-talk-on-missionary-work.md\">A Church Culture of Missionary work</a> [christianity,opinion,lds culture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/support-beams-represent-the-cross.md\">Architecture Reminds Me of His Cross</a> [sacrament symbol,christianity,scripture of the day,symbol-cross]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/creative/cuddles.md\">Cuddles</a> [creative,poem,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-14.md\">2024-01-14</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.md\">1 Nephi 4.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.8.md\">1 Nephi 5.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-40.6-9.md\">Alma 40.6–9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.4.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.5-6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.8.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-1.38.md\">Ether 1.38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/hope-of-israel.md\">Hope of Israel</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.31-32.md\">Moses 6.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-4.9.md\">Mosiah 4.9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/healing.md\">I'm Grateful for Healing</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-4-why-not.md\">1 Nephi 4 - Why not?</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-slow-blink.md\">Slow Blink</a> [creative,poem,babies,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.md\">Stairwell scoop</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-13.md\">2024-01-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-3-dreamed-a-dream.md\">1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.md\">You can plan your life in 5 minutes</a> [posts,purpose of life]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/my-childhood.md\">I'm Grateful for My Childhood</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-bound.md\">Bound</a> [creative,poem,parenting,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/junk-attracts-junk.md\">Junk attracts Junk</a> [posts,laws of human nature,observations,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-12.md\">2024-01-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.md\">1 Nephi 2.11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.md\">1 Nephi 3.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.md\">1 Nephi 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.md\">1 Nephi 5.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/creative/poem-lint.md\">Lint</a> [babies,parenting,poem,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.md\">Biden's debt relief won't relieve what he thinks it will</a> [posts,politics,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-11.md\">goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/strollers.md\">I'm Grateful for Strollers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-2-receiving-a-promised-land.md\">1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land</a> [christianity,covenant,individual covenant,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/lists/scripture-study-list.md\">List of Study Topics</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/concepts/christian.md\">Christian</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/find-the-fun.md\">Find the Fun</a> [christianity,parenting,mental health,mindfulness,philosophy,tech,A/B testing,mindset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.md\">AI and the Future of SaaS</a> [news,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.md\">1 Nephi 2.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.md\">1 Nephi 2.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.md\">The Quest for Cosmic Justice</a> [book-review,economics,social justice,politics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/cool-quarto-site.md\">Cool Quarto Site</a> [posts,quarto,tech,coding]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/lists/news.md\">Newsletters I follow</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/stop-trying-to-change-people.md\">Stop trying to change people. Stop it.</a> [christianity,prayer,agency,mindfulness,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-10.md\">Goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/1-Nephi-1-he-prepares-us-to-teach-us.md\">1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,book of mormon,revelation,prophets,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.md\">Listening to 'This is the Christ' right now, grateful for good music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-14-jan-14.md\">2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/gratus-sum-ergo-habeo.md\">Gratus sum, ergo habeo</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.md\">The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/my-mission.md\">my mission</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/small-things.md\">I'm grateful for small things</a> [gratitude,christianity,book of mormon,scripture of the day,retrospective,philosophy,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/sandwich-shops.md\">I'm Grateful for Sandwich Shops</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/the-six-hour-sandwich.md\">The six hour sandwich</a> [posts,sales,life musings,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.md\">1 Nephi 1.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.md\">1 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.7-8.md\">1 Nephi 1.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.md\">2 Nephi 28.30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-37.7.md\">Alma 37.7</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-4.31-32.md\">Mark 4.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-1-praying-for-other-people.md\">1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.md\">This drug is habit forming</a> [tech,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/the-matrix.md\">The Matrix: Social Media's Influence on Human Interaction</a> [social media,digital minimalism,tech,modern living]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.md\">The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle</a> [book-review,history,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/whats-your-decision-framework.md\">What's your decision framework?</a> [posts,insights from books,investing,memories,personal stories,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/organization-and-minimalism.md\">Organization and Minimalism</a> [posts,minimalism,organization,software,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-09.md\">Workout</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/lists/reading-ethos.md\">Reading Ethos</a> [posts,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/audiobooks.md\">Audiobooks</a> [gratitude,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/christianity/scriptures-within-scriptures.md\">Scriptures within Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day,scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/book-review/dune-messiah.md\">Dune: Messiah</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/lists/legal-ai.md\">Legal AI</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/toothbrush.md\">I'm Grateful for the Toothbrush</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.md\">A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I'm off Social Media</a> [tech,personal experiments,A/B testing,social media,big tech,incentives,decisions,relationships,ai,emotional intelligence,purpose of life,digital minimalism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-08.md\">Body: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata</a> [workout]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.7.md\">1 Nephi 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.21.md\">1 Nephi 5.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.10.md\">1 Nephi 8.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.26.md\">2 Nephi 25.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.md\">2 Nephi 9.51</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/the-thief-of-time.md\">The Thief of Time</a> [creative,time,parenting,perspective,deep thought]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/posts/becoming-an-expert.md\">Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy</a> [posts,personal development,growth,grit,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/concepts/hand-of-god.md\">Hand of God</a> [christianity,concept]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/my-testimony-2024-01-07.md\">My testimony: Moving across the Country</a> [christianity,fast sunday,my testimony,memories,let god prevail]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/what-does-it-mean-to-preside.md\">What does it mean to preside?</a> [christianity,book of mormon,doctrine and covenants,priesthood,leadership,the family a proclamation to the world,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.md\">Vaulted Ceilings</a> [christianity,sacrament symbol,symbol-architecture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-07-jan-7.md\">2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/cars.md\">Cars</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/red-eyed.md\">Red eyed</a> [creative,deep thought,funny,perspective,hypothetical,angle of vision]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.5.md\">1 Nephi 5.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.md\">3 Nephi 10.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.md\">\"The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power\", Dale G. Renlund</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-107.60-62.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 107.60–62</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.md\">Ephesians 4.4–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/introduction.md\">Introduction</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-3.16.md\">John 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures,sacrament]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-5.7-8.md\">Mosiah 5.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.md\">'Make Time for the Lord', Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.md\">\"The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/the-family-proclamation.md\">The Family Proclamation</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/haircuts.md\">I'm Grateful for Haircuts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.md\">AI won't replace us. We'll always create.</a> [tech,ai,futurism,humanity,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.md\">Mark Cuban Mogul Support</a> [posts,entrepreneurship,YouTube clip]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cabinet-handle.md\">Cabinet Handle</a> [creative,poem,babies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/time.md\">Time</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.28.md\">alma-32.28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-10.4.md\">moroni-10.4</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/christianity/how-to-use-the-book-of-mormon.md\">How I use the Book of Mormon</a> [christianity,book of mormon,testimony,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.9.md\">2 Nephi 32.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.md\">The Dove (Forevermore)</a> [creative,poem,poetry,parenting,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/hard-work.md\">Hard Work and its Reward</a> [gratitude,perspective,effort,life lessons,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.md\">What startups and musicians have in common</a> [tech,startups,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.md\">The future wave of AI hype</a> [tech,news,chart critique]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/write-a-thousand-songs.md\">Write a thousand songs</a> [posts,creativity,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/losing-to-yesmen.md\">When Leaders Lose their People</a> [posts,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.md\">The Multiverse of Careers</a> [posts,meditation,deathbed meditation,career,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives.md\">russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.34-36.md\">alma-32.34-36</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.15-17.md\">matthew-16.15-17</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-18.26-28.md\">alma-18.26-28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/christianity/a-change-in-witness.md\">When a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,epistemology,theology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/30-seconds-for-payment.md\">30 Seconds is All You Get</a> [music,economics,incentives,posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.9.md\">mosiah-18.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.md\">testimony-of-eight-witnesses</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/leviticus-19.18.md\">leviticus-19.18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/leonardo-da-vinci.md\">Leonardo da Vinci</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs-biography.md\">Steve Jobs (Biography)</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/love-thy-neighbor-but-have-friends.md\">Love Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends</a> [christianity,love,family,friendship]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/share-your-testimony.md\">Share your testimony</a> [christianity,testimony]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/zoom.md\">Zoom</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/lists/writing-ethos.md\">Writing Ethos</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/my-tombstone.md\">My Tombstone</a> [posts,mortality,work,work life balance,perspective,meditation,priorities]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/your-mood-is-contagious.md\">Your Mood is Contagious</a> [posts,leadership,parenting,emotional resilience,grit]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/tech/dreaming-software.md\">The Dream State of Software</a> [tech,design,ai,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.16-18.md\">alma-32.16-18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-5.45.md\">matthew-5.45</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.md\">1-kings-19.11-12</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.5.md\">mosiah-3.5</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/lists/gratitude-backlog.md\">Things I'm grateful for</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/innovators-dilemma.md\">Innovator's Dilemma</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/socrates-a-life-worth-living.md\">\"Socrates A Life Worth Living\" by Devra Lehman</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-miracles-of-christ.md\">The Miracles of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,miracles,faith,signs]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/good-books.md\">Good Books</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/tech/why-we-want-new-software.md\">The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion</a> [business strategy,saas,sales,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/rest.md\">I'm grateful for rest</a> [gratitude,observations]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/christianity/cfm-2023-12-31-rev-15-21.md\">Come follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21</a> [christianity,come follow me,raw notes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/eyes.md\">Eyes</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.md\">Replacing human work with AI</a> [tech,ai,automation,decisions,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/beaches.md\">Beaches</a> [gratitude,water,beach,sunset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/emotional-recovery.md\">Emotional Recovery</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/water-as-a-currency.md\">Water as a Currency?</a> [posts,water,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/creative/poem-timeless.md\">Timeless</a> [poem,poetry,parenting,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.md\">Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto</a> [obsidian,quarto,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.md\">Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog</a> [quarto,obsidian,pkm,build in public,tool,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md\">How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices</a> [decisions,philosophy,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/decisions-are-rivers.md\">Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft</a> [decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.md\">97 percent chance you'll fail</a> [success,decisions,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin.md\">Flipping the coins of life</a> [philosophy,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.md\">Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision</a> [decisions,storytelling,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-empty-tomb.md\">Post Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs</a> [christianity,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/unknown-god.md\">An Unknown God</a> [christianity,theology,faith,doubts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/grateful-for-artists.md\">I'm grateful for artists</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.md\">I'm grateful for blankets</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.md\">Things I'd like in a blog</a> [productivity,quarto]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-from-phone/index.md\">How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian</a> [productivity,tech,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/write-despite-ai/index.md\">Write despite AI</a> [ai,humanity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.md\">Writing is truly enlivening</a> [communication,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-25-grateful-for-doctors/index.md\">I'm grateful for doctors</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.md\">AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans</a> [ai,tech,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/let-your-light-so-shine.md\">His is the light that we should share</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/the-christ-child.md\">The Christ Child</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.md\">Light</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.md\">Twas the Night before Christmas</a> [christmas,ask gpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/dune.md\">Dune</a> [book-review,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-best-of-edgar-allen-poe.md\">The Best of Edgar Allen Poe</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-22 <a href=\"/book-review/killers-of-the-flower-moon.md\">Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a> [storytelling,murder mystery,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-github-copilot-levels-up/index.md\">GitHub copilot levels up</a> [ai,productivity,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.md\">The Allegory of the Dodo</a> [productivity,business,kids books]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/book-review/unbelievable.md\">Unbelievable</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/posts/the-little-red-hen.md\">The Little Red Hen</a> [book review,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.md\">101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest</a> [philosophy,mindfulness,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-19-how-to-encourage-your-kids-/index.md\">How to encourage your kids</a> [parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-18 <a href=\"/book-review/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.md\">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> [storytelling,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-17 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-celebrates-a-living-christ.md\">Christmas celebrates a Living Christ</a> [christianity,ai,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-16 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-16-humanity-and-ai/index.md\">What is humanity</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.md\">LLMs can find a needle in the haystack</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-prompt-techniques/index.md\">Prompt techniques</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-14 <a href=\"/lists/ai.md\">Cool AI Tweets</a> [tech,futurism,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 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\n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.md\">Resume Substance over Style</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.md\">Writing a Tech Resume</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-12 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.md\">What is a model?</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.md\">De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person</a> [data science,communication,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-03 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.md\">When data collection goes too far</a> [productivity,futurism,tech,surveillance]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.md\">Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything</a> [productivity,musings,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.md\">Pomodoro Principles</a> [productivity,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-25 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.md\">How I use TickTick</a> [productivity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-things-done.md\">Getting Things Done</a> [productivity,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-new-ideas-are-distractingly-exciting/index.md\">New ideas are distractingly exciting</a> [productivity,priorities,ideation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.md\">What is the best todo list manager?</a> [productivity,app review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.md\">Downstream Impact</a> [data science,experimentation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.md\">Products for dads</a> [productivity,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.md\">The Power of Party Pay by Visible</a> [startups,strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.md\">Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-04-30 <a href=\"/book-review/never-split-the-difference.md\">Never Split the Difference</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-05-03 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-habit.md\">The Power of Habit</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2015-12-01 <a href=\"/lists/reading-list.md\">Reading List</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2000-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/test.md\">test</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, 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