Finished reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 📚

🎧 The Art of Manliness Podcast #628: The Rise of Secular Religion and the New Puritanism

In particular, Howland makes the case that what we’re seeing today is the rise of a kind of secular religion, a new Puritanism, that worships at what he calls “the Church of Humanity.” This new Puritanism bases the idea of moral purity around one’s views on issues like race and gender, and seeks to purge anyone who doesn’t adhere to the proscribed dogma.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about “cancel culture” recently and what seems good as well as negative about it. This interview has certainly given me a lot to think about and I’d welcome critiques of Jacob’s views here. I wonder if he has misrepresented critical theorist views and I suspect that even if a critical theorist agreed with how he defined it, they might disagree about the practical outplaying in society.

Ideally, intelectual sparring partners “hone each other’s arguments so that they are sharper and better,” Yale historial Paul Sabin wrote. “the oposite happened with Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon.”

  • Range by David Epstein

Finished Listening 🎧: The New Testament in Its World Audio Lectures by N.T. Wright & Michael Bird

Welp. Looks like my edited post won’t update :S and is now just “T”.

The em-dash is a fantastic piece of punctuation but it’s okay to still use commas and even (gasp) colons and semicolons.

(Yes, this was inspired by work although my current work is full of colon and semicolon stans.)

🔗 The 80 best single-operator newsletters I’ve seen this list a couple of times in the last week so thought I’d share it. I’d love to get Learn Create Share on a list like this one day. I also remember someone @johnphilipin ? making a list of newsletter from microblog users. I’d like to find that again.

Back in the office for the first time in four…five months? I really can’t remember. Nice to be reunited with my fantastic clicky-clacky keyboard and a second monitor.

Me: I know how to use excel. 5 mins later Me: Why can’t I make this pivot table do what I want!

Learn Create Share edition 18 is flying across the internet searching for a nest in your inbox. 🦅 There’s a new creative challenge and some interesting resources inside. You can read it here now.