Nathan Verghese
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Nathan Verghese
Jessica Zitter, the palliative-care physician, calls this tendency to always add another machine, or another drug, the end-of-life conveyor belt. “We’re always trying to do more and more and more to people, when maybe we shouldn’t,” Bigham said. “The overarching problem here is that we have this fear of letting people die,” he explained.
Clayton Dalton • How ECMO Is Redefining Death | the New Yorker
when your sketchbook is more valuable than your phone 🤝🏼🫶🏻✍🏽💓
instagram.comThose who successfully combine both schedules do so by clearly distinguishing between them, setting boundaries, and adjusting their environment accordingly. They don’t alternate between designing and meetings hourly.
Farnam Street • Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You
maker’s vs. manager’s schedules
The pastor is never a private chaplain to individuals; the pastor is never an impersonal speaker to crowds; the pastor is set in community and given the task of building that community.
Eugene H. Peterson • Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work
If you're feeling stuck, watch this.
youtube.comsometimes the best way to think through something is to just start “doing” and see what issues arise
So sometimes, it’s not about hoarding every moment as much as being able to value the experiences you’ve had. Because if you have one experience that is valuable that you could draw upon later on from the past week, that’s a whole lot better than mindlessly documenting everything you’ve ever done for the last week, right? And that’s going to be... See more
Becca Rashid • Can We Keep Time?
Comment “Let’s go Owen” and we’ll DM you our full interview with Owen.
Meet @owen_reiser — he just made one of the best docs of the year and uploaded it to YouTube for free.
If you haven’t watched “Listers”, stop everything and watch it.
instagram.comThe problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an uncertain future are in opposition to each other. Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory.
Mandy Brown • Against Optimization
We truly experience Sabbath when we orient our lives not around ourselves but around Jesus and listen and respond to his invitation: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”