Daily Gleanings (23 April 2019)

Cal Newport reflects on the possibility of deleterious effects of social media on religious practice.

In part, he comments:

Courage, reassurance, revelation: these require a quiet mind capable of apophatic insight. One of the unintentional consequences of innovating an algorithmically-optimized, always-present source of attention-snagging noise is that this quiet disappears.

For more, see Cal’s original post or Digital Minimalism.


CSNTM preserves some new manuscripts currently kept in Texas, including a thus-far-unregistered manuscript still under review by INTF.

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