This is a true story. It happened yesterday (as I write). I boarded the Elizabeth Line train at its South-Eastern terminus, Abbey Wood, opting for the train that wasn’t rammed-and-about-to-leave, in favour of getting a seat. I plonked myself down opposite a man perhaps in his fifties, bearded, big glasses, a little rotund, wearing a … More A Tale of Two Travellers.
Well, first, it’s now broken. Secondly, it broke because I’d done the fool thing of attaching it magnetically to the side of the iPad – you know, the way it’s designed – but my 6-year-old son picking it up was enough to jolt the Pencil off the side of the iPad so that it fell … More The Apple Pencil: An Honest Review
J.R.R. Tolkien, writing to his son Christopher, commenting on how long and sprawling The Lord of the Rings was becoming, compared with The Hobbit: ‘It is a curse having the epic temperament in an overcrowded age devoted to snappy bits!’ And to think that he wrote this in 1944, not 2024… but perhaps the sons … More Tolkien and the curse of the epic temperament
Hot tip: Don’t use your phone, tablet or computer as a glanceable timepiece. Well, maybe your computer taskbar/menubar is allowable while you’re working. But don’t be getting your phone out of your pocket to ‘check the time’… you’ll never be knowing where the time went after you’re done ‘just checking’. ‘Okay, but couldn’t I try … More Dispatch from the Digital Detox: Use an analogue watch
The promise of digital technologies is the ultimate kind of ‘distributed cognition’ – the ability to use different digital environments in order to help our thinking be streamlined – focused on one thing or another: on writing a report, or planning a project, or communicating with co-workers or loved ones. The fact is, though, that … More The Digital Era: Distributed vs. Fragmented Cognition
Let me take you back to 2014 Nerd Ben, to show you what using technology was like in its heyday. (Yes, I called 2014 technology’s heyday. Get over it.) 2014 Ben was knuckling down with a few key apps to get his world really tuned up and humming. Emails were getting filed and filtered in … More Tech Tools and Thinking – 2014 vs. 2024
So at the beginning of this new year, as I think ahead to how I would like to grow in understanding the Bible and applying it to life, I have a question: what system and tools do you readers find most helpful for studying the Bible? For some, a wide-margin edition for note-taking is indispensable. … More Bible Study – How Do You Do It?
Ben David Trigg 