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Tag Archives: Steve Jobs
How To Waste Your Life and How To Stop
What Do You Want? May is the month for commencement addresses. All over the country scholars, politicians, celebrities, teachers, and people considered to have something to say will stand up in front of graduating High School and College students to give … Continue reading
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Tagged Coveting, CS Lewis, Desire, Exodus, Phil Vischer, Steve Jobs, The Screwtape Letters, The Ten Commandments
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Religions as Communal Ulysses Contracts
Steve Jobs famously offered this advice in his 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s … Continue reading
Steve Jobs and the God-like Pursuit of Excellence
After a number of posts about Steve Jobs I’m sure some folks think I have a very negative fixation about the man. That isn’t true. I want to take a page from John Van Sloten’s book and do some reflecting … Continue reading
Answering Young Steve Jobs: The Problem of Expectations
There is a lot of wisdom in the old AA adage “expectations are preconceived resentments.” It recognizes the problem of judgment, that our judgments are based on our expectations and that we seldom own our own expectations. Young Steve Jobs … Continue reading
Answering Young Steve Jobs: The Problem of Judgment
The story of Steve Jobs’ last day at church highlights a number of issues, one of which is judging. Judging is a bad word in our culture today. The last thing you want to be known as is “judgmental”. This … Continue reading
Answering Young Steve Jobs: The Idolatry of Answers
One of the things JRR Tolkien got very right in his epic “Lord of the Rings” was the pull of “mastery” on our hearts. It’s not hard to see that below our strivings with technology, our market strivings, our relational … Continue reading
