The charming Jason Helton joined me on Ministry Bits this week to talk about a lot of stuff, but mainly church tech and outreach during a pandemic. This is a good one.
Dark Sky, one of my favorite weather nerd apps, has sold to Apple today. Guess I’ll be using Weather next year.
The excellent Tyler Stalman is back with a new episode of his podcast, this time talking all about about stream with the master of streaming, Alex Lindsay.
If you want to get behind not just the how but the why of streaming, give this show an hour of your time.
If you’d like to be totally freaked out - I mean geeked out, of course - then check out Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Status Page. It will both amaze and humble you for several minutes at least while you’re waiting on your third bowl of ramen to cook. It will not, unfortunately, check toilet paper inventory.
A classic from Seth Godin that I had forgotten about:
I’m sitting on a black couch in the lobby of a nice theater. The couch is cracked and peeling, with seven strips of black gaffer’s tape holding it together. And you don’t have to be an interior geologist to see that it has developed this patina over time, bit by bit.
The question is: Who was the first person who decided to fix the couch with tape?
The third or fifth person did a natural thing–here’s a ratty couch, let’s keep it the best we can.
But the first taper?
The first taper decided that it was okay for this theater to have a taped couch. The first taper didn’t make the effort to alert the authorities, to insist on getting the couch repaired properly.
The first taper decided, “this is good enough for now.”
This is how we find ourselves on the road to decay.