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Now hiring: operations manager →
My team at The Free Methodist Church – USA is looking to make a new hire:
The Operations Manager will be the first impression of LLCOMM. They oversee general day-to-day operations, answer phones, consult with WMC and FMCUSA teams as a project-intake coordinator, track budget, work with LLCOMM staff to assign tasks and help keep projects moving to completion.
One of the greatest blessings my family has received this past year is employment under Jason Archer. Our team is passionate about doing great work for the kingdom.
The job is located in Indianpolis, Ind.
Creativity, photography and Christ
Last night, I had the chance to share with the Junior High students in my church about photography.
It all starts with creation. It was invented by God. God’s first recorded act is the creation of the world. Then He made humans. In His image.
We have a built-in creative tendency. When we create something we’re proud of, we feel good, just like God did.
My Dad is the one who taught me this:
What I really like is that sharing God’s image allows us to explore the adjacent possibilities, creating both poetry and iPods
What have you created recently? Of the things you’ve created, what are you proud of?
The photos in the presentation are meant to get you thinking. Think about how you can look at the world differently. Think about how you can explore what’s around you visually.
Of course, inherent in creativity, is responsibility:
Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. – 1 corinthians 10:31b
Here are the slides from the talk, if you’d like to see them:
Sprint's gamble →
Horace Dediu, analyzing the numbers Sprint has committed to sell over the next four years:
So the gamble Sprint is taking is that they will be able to sell iPhones at the same rate as Verizon and AT&T.
How is this risky?
The WSJ article did seem a little sensational.
As Sprint customers, we’ll be switching. I know many others who will as well. Once carrier choice is moot, more people will select their phones based on merit, rather than availability.
As Dediu says:
If anything the riskiest thing for Sprint would have been not to do the deal at all. Indeed, we’ll get to see the effect of that option on T-Mobile.
Just write it down →
Jon Hoyt:
Keep a small notebook with you at all times, record important points from conversations, ideas you have in the middle of doing other things, any little piece of information that might actually be useful in the future.
Great advice. The sooner one can start this habit the better.
For me, this often ends up being in Evernote, but when I’m using actual paper, I love Field Notes.
Incompatible, slow and downright unusable →
Jacob Wilson isn’t thrilled with the HTC Thunderbolt:
Even though half this page has been about the failure of Verizon’s first 4G LTE device, it also shows how bad companies have become at making a phone with Google’s development kit. In addition to those issues, I’ve had countless lockups, crashing apps, lagging, and slow loading times on almost everything I do. The network speed doesn’t determine the speed of the device, sadly.
I’ve experienced a lot of these problems with my phone as well. I just can’t recommend Android to anyone anymore.
The "tablet market" →
Marco Arment, on the Kindle Fire:
A “tablet market” suggests that people first decide they want a tablet, then they comparison-shop and choose the one that best fits their needs and budget, like buying a dishwasher. I don’t think we’ve seen any plausible evidence that a meaningful number of customers think of tablets generically like that.
But if anything’s going to prove me wrong, it’s the Kindle Fire.
I guess Donald Trump is good for something →
Our afformentioned photo shoot with Lauren and Adam on Saturday.
Speaker Deck Wordpress Plugin →
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Speaker Deck →
A gorgeous and powerful web app for sharing presentations. From the fabulous team at Ordered List.
Our focus at Ordered List is simplicity and beauty. We asked ourselves, what is the most simple way to share a presentation? The answer we kept coming back to was a collection of images. This is exactly what Speaker Deck is.