Soren Kierkegaard
Beautifully Terrible Children’s Recitals, Doorbell Surveillance Cameras, Inexplicable Love, and the God of the Cosmos
1. Mere Orthodoxy has published an excerpt from an excellent book, Christ and Calamity: Grace […]
1. Over at Marginalia Thomas Millay reviews what looks to be a fantastic book on […]
Continuing from last week’s first part. Kierkegaard once (indirectly) wrote that it is an edifying […]
This comes from a new book out by Kierkegaard scholar, Gordon Marino, The Existentialist’s Survival […]
The real motive for every person is to be significant enough to never die.
“I wish I had never met you.” A person never wants to hear that from […]
“Here I stand…not at a crossroads — no, but at a multitude of roads, and […]
[T]ake away the possibility of offense, as they have done in Christendom, and the whole […]
FOMO’s not the whole story – nor is it new.
The Boston Magazine this week published a history of “Fear of Missing Out“, tracing its beginnings, like a careful epidemiologist, back to 2004, at Harvard Business School. Of greater interest were its comments on FOBO, Fear of a Better Option (more precisely, Fear that a Better Option Exists, but FOBO’s easier than FBOE, so there it is):
But this mentality had its costs: McGinnis and his group found they couldn’t commit to anything. Working with the rudimentary tools available to them (cell phones and address books), they developed complex algorithms to plan…