Freedom on J. David Stark

Daily Gleanings: Focus (2 December 2019)

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:00:46 +0000

Corey Pemberton discusses eight specific types of challenges with focus and provides some suggestions for overcoming each type.

Daily Gleanings: Digital Distractions (13 November 2019)

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings about avoiding digital distractions, prioritizing writing, using social pressure, and sleeping.

Daily Gleanings: White-listing (4 November 2019)

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings about Freedom’s release of white-listing for Windows users.

How to Use Freedom to Support Your Priorities

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Freedom is a powerful tool. It allows us to set priorities for our time ahead of time when we’re thinking clearly about what’s most important.

Daily Gleanings: Freedom for iOS (30 September 2019)

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:48 +0000

Daily Gleanings about the return of app blocking to Freedom for iOS.

Daily Gleanings: Thoughts from Freedom (31 July 2019)

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:00:45 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about avoiding procrastination and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s thoughts on how to foster focused work as a busy academic.

Daily Gleanings: Software (30 July 2019)

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:00:43 +0000

Daily Gleanings about Chrome’s new “Limit” extension by Freedom and Logos’s double- and triple-click shortcut options.

Daily Gleanings: Freedom (22 July 2019)

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:00:10 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about distractions (digital and otherwise) and how to overcome them to improve your focus on what matters.

Daily Gleanings (29 May 2019)

Wed, 29 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings from Freedom about the new Pause extension for Chrome and from Michael Kruger about contemporary cultural influences on the New Perspective.

Daily Gleanings (27 May 2019)

Mon, 27 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings on “Paul, a New Covenant Jew” and from J. T. Ellison on productivity as a writer.

Daily Gleanings (22 May 2019)

Wed, 22 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Freedom discusses how to use their “block all except” whitelisting feature to block out distractions and interruptions.

For more discussion of Freedom, see these prior posts.

John Meade surveys ch. 4 of Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten’s How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?(YUP, 2018) and promises a follow-up post “attempting to engage the authors on one of their examples from chapter 4 with a view to showing how they think diachony and TC work together.”

Daily Gleanings (17 May 2019)

Fri, 17 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Daily Gleanings about the “Text and Canon Institute” and improving performance by minimizing distractions.

Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)

Wed, 08 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access.

HT: AWOL

Freedom continues the dialog over Apple’s added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom’s functionality for new iOS users.

Are You Free to Focus? (Part 4: Acting)

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Continued review of Michael Hyatt’s “Free to Focus.” We discuss the three elements of “acting” on what you’ve identified as most important to pursue.

Daily Gleanings (19 April 2019)

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:00:14 +0000

Gleanings about Jewish Studies and beating distractions to write productively.

Scheduling focus

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:00:11 +0000

Freedom has a helpful tutorial about being “more productive in the afternoon.” The same principles apply to whenever is one’s preferred time for focused work.

Focus—there’s an app for that

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Digital devices and media can make focus difficult. Freedom provides helpful of “training wheels” to foster better focus amid such distractions.

July's Luther Resources @ Logos

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:37:58 +0000

Hans Iwand,

This month, Logos Bible Software is giving away Hans Iwand’s The Righteousness of Faith according to Luther (trans., Randi Lundell; Wipf & Stock, 2008, originally published in 1941). According to the product page, the volume: