I'm presenting at the #Come30 online symposium tomorrow morning but won't have had a chance to add the Works Cited for my presentation before it's shown. Plus, there are a lot of sources to credit. So here we go. I'll list some in the traditional way where appropriate but also share the original sources for… Continue reading The Problem with Abundance (Sources Annotated)
My sense of faith, in the secular sense, is tested by my odd sense of careerism. Too often concerned about success, I become frozen by whatever Big Idea I'm chasing at the time and neglect the ordinary, plugging-away-at-it work I should be doing. If I were to have faith that actually doing the work would… Continue reading Slow Writing 2
The "presentism" diagnosed by Douglas Rushkoff in his book Present Shock has now, in this shelter-in-place era of COVID-19, revealed its most neurotic symptoms: near-total absorption into the endless stream of news and commentary, mental fluttering without end, and yet, a near-total inability to say anything. Or to write anything. For me, at least. Setting… Continue reading Slow Writing
Robert Loss 