“Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.”

Go read Tim Ferriss on killing distractions.

Josh Sowin on going after your Self-taught MBA.

Tim Challies has a drawing during September for volumes from the Reformed Expository Commentary series. Click the image to enter–doing so also gives me another entry. You’d like to help build my library wouldn’t you?

How to Write Faster, Better, and Easier

Cool business card designs. May go with the “Hello my name is” design someday myself.

Adam Gurno shares a great idea about how to use post-it flags to organize and cross reference your reading. (from)

Lifehacker points to Virginia Tech’s page on How to read a difficult book.

These thoughts of one writer to Glenn Reynolds express well what we’ve been feeling around our home during the last few days of news coverage on the Katrina hurricane.

For the finger pointing reporters…

These guys and gals need to get a clue. Today’s story is not: “What went wrong and who can we blame?” — that story can wait for tomorrow. Today the story is: “What are the obstacles preventing help from arriving and what can we do to solve them?” Some of these people are reporting like they’ve never been through a natural disaster, like they have no idea of the logistical nightmares that occur when power, water, communications systems and transportation systems literally disappear overnight. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to who are disgusted with much of the national TV coverage.

In the spirit of the start of the college football season (Go Bucks!) check out this video and story on the Iowa Hawkeye’s locker room–the visitors’ locker room.

There are more great answers to the questions about the English Standard Version Bible over at Adrian Warnock’s blog. The most recent question answered is about whether an essentially word-for-word, literal translation like the ESV will cause a decline in the study of the original languages.