Douglas-Estes

Doist provides a “complete guide to deep work.” The essay is mainly geared toward summarizing the advice of Cal Newport’s Deep Work with some additional insertions from Digital Minimalism.

Both books are definitely worth reading. But Doist’s essay is a thorough crash course on the basics.

Douglas Estes offers some helpful reflections on perfectionism, especially as it affects academic writing.

On perfectionism and writing, see also Ryder Carroll’s pithy analysis of perfectionism versus failure.

Gleanings about the Nathan-Melech bulla and goal setting.

Faithlife has launched a new journal specifically for faculty, Didaktikos, which focuses on issues related to theological education.

Since my previous post about Qumran Cave 12, a few other noteworthy articles have cropped up, including on:

• FoxNews (HT: Jordan Sekulow via Craig Evans),
• NPR (HT: Andreas Köstenberger), and
• Times of Israel (HT: Douglas Estes).

Much of what is in these articles about the new find is also in other reports. But, the Times piece confirms that

Experts at the Dead Sea Scroll Laboratories in Jerusalem … plan to carry out multispectral imaging of the [apparently blank parchment fragment] to reveal any ink invisible to the naked eye.

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