Busyness

Getting Physical, Conan’s Exit, Forgiving a Father, the Algorithmic Mirror, Juneteenth, and Decelerating Busyness.

El Camino, Total Work, Acedia, More Judge Tammy, Nir Eyal, History’s Long Defeat, and the Only Character Jesus Ever Named

1. A really surprising-but-not-so-surprising study from Reason about moral outrage, and its psychological background. Not […]

Our first free-peek into The Work and Play Issue of The Mockingbird is our interview […]

A pair of (somewhat) related articles came across my desk yesterday that seem especially relevant […]

Another missive from the busy trap. This one comes from Brigid Schulte’s book, Overwhelmed: Work, […]

A quick update: we had some trouble with the Kindle version of The Mockingbird Devotional, but […]

1) To add to the Facebook files, this one came from the New Yorker. A […]

I’ve noticed a recent spat of very positive Christian books about vocation, basically work-affirming theologies, […]

This from her technology manifesto, Alone Together, social psychologist Sherry Turkle points to our longing […]

I believe “fish in a barrel” is the phrase that applies here. The NY Times’ […]