2020–11–29 — Weekly Articles

Dr. Nathan Belcher
2 min readNov 29, 2020

Faith

A Vast and Vibrant Loveliness by Marshall Segal (Desiring God)

Thankfulness Is A Spiritual Discipline by Michael Hidalgo (RELEVANT)

Luke 1:1–25 by Rob Myallis

How to Harm a Heavy Heart by Vaneetha Rendall Risner (Desiring God)

Don’t Let 2020 Stop Your Thanksgiving by Clarissa Moll (The Gospel Coalition)

Advent 1 B: Small Things by David Lose

Leadership/Personal Growth/Parenting

How Julia Child Used First Principles Thinking by Farnam Street

The Case Against To-Do Lists (and What to Use Instead) by Nir Eyal

Why Gratitude Is More Important Than Ever by Michael Hyatt

Are You Missing This Essential Foundation for a Good Life? by Scott Young

A different kind of new manager checklist: The 4 essential questions to ask yourself as a leader by Claire Lew

The Maddening Paradox of Leadership by Dan Doriani (The Gospel Coalition)

Health/Fitness/Nutrition

Q&A on Alzheimer’s disease drug therapy with Dr. Richard Isaacson by Peter Attia

Create the perfect meal with this simple 5-step guide. [Infographic] by John Berardi (Precision Nutrition)

German Volume Training: The Best Kept Muscle Building Secret? by Scott Mayer

I Ditched All the Chairs In My House to Make Myself Move More by Silvia Bastos

Compassion Fatigue by Steve Barkley

Sports

Golf 101: How to hit a draw…the easy way by John Wunder (GolfWRX)

What makes a golf ball curve? by Ryan Barath (GolfWRX)

The Ballad of Bobby Firmino by Ryan O’Hanlon

Try to keep up with the Kordas: Jessica and Nelly make their mark in a family of star athletes by Keely Levins (Golfworld)

The Big Read: Bodø Glimt — Remarkable rise of Norway’s next champions despite challenges and perpetual change by Andy Mitten (The National News)

Mourning Diego Maradona by Brian Phillips (The Ringer)

The Art of Thought by Meg MacLaren

As good as Bobby Jones? Yes, she was, and then some by John Fischer (The Morning Read)

Why Is FiveThirtyEight’s Model Still So High on Manchester City? by Grace Robertson

Business/Finances

Substack got lucky, and so did Margins by Can Duruk

4 Things Your Fitness and Your Finances Have in Common by Zach Harris

Just One Thing or Every Single Thing? by Byrne Hobart

Education

Finding the Moment of Inertia from a Point to a Ring to a Disk to a Sphere. by Rhett Allain

What Makes for an Effective Secretary of Education? by Frederick Hess

Inertia is how much, not if by Joe Milliano

Science/Technology

A hypothesis is a liability by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher (Genome Biology)

Today is Worldwide Backup Day by Seth Godin

Quantum Fluctuations Were Experimentally Proven Way Back In 1947 by Ethan Siegal

Resonance with a Damped-Driven Mass-Spring System in Python by Rhett Allain

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Dr. Nathan Belcher

Helping people learn and grow. Lover of beautiful conversations, books, sports, education, family, and Jesus. W&M: B.S '08, M.A.Ed '10 U of SC: Ed.D. '17