Wow! My brain hurts trying to figure out how this must work.

Forget Marketing, Christian Living Sucks

Forget polishing up that web site, planning your next series or training your greeters. Because if we can’t effectively live the gospel, how can we hope to communicate it?

Three new hobbies I intend to begin this year

Brewing my own beer

It’s actually pretty straightforward, but I bet the fun part is experimentally developing a really great recipe.

Roasting my own coffee

First: roasting coffee in a popcorn popper. Next: finding a good, inexpensive, fair trade green coffee bean. Also, the AeroPress is pretty great, some of the best coffee I’ve ever had came out of one of these. Mine shows up in a few days.

Managing my own World of Warcraft Guild

Not really a new hobby in some ways, since I already play World of Warcraft. But in another month or so when Travis and I hit level 70, I hope to have already started recruiting for some highly-tactical PvP battleground and arena matches. It’s fun practicing leadership skills in a recreational setting.

Earth at Night

These aren’t as good the next day. It could also be that I burnt the heck out of them.
—Doug Johnston

garfield minus garfield

How to Think

Or, how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure. This article is well worth a few more reads through.

Long term plans, working backwards from a goal, and logarithmic time scheduling have been fairly natural for me lately. There are a few others of these that I intend to start doing more: synthesize constantly (including conversation summaries), document obsessively, and writing up best-practices protocols.

xkcd - Watching the ex-marching band kids stumble. In other news, I have been having a lot of these recurring high school band dreams lately. Weird.