2020–12–06 — Weekly Articles

Dr. Nathan Belcher
2 min readDec 6, 2020

Faith

Making The Most Of The Meantime by Daniel Darling (RELEVANT)

The Lost Giant Among Giants by Kenneth Ortiz (Desiring God)

How to Expose the Idols in Your Life by Joe Carter (The Gospel Coalition)

Advent in a Global Pandemic by David Mathis (Desiring God)

Oh How We Need Advent (This Year More Than Most) by E.M. Welcher (The Gospel Coalition)

Advent 2 B: Beginnings by David Lose

Make room by Northwood Church

Why Biblical Theology Is Needed for Preaching and Teaching by Matt Capps and Josh Wredberg (The Gospel Coalition)

Leadership/Personal Growth/Parenting

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge by Farnam Street

Thoughts on introducing my sons to the golf course by David Hill

5 Popular Lies About Family Discipleship by Matt Chandler and Adam Griffin

How to Beat Procrastination Like a Stoic Philosopher by Ryan Holiday

Understanding the automatic self by Seth Godin

How to Become More Curious by Scott Young

Why Mentoring Is Better Than Asking Alexa by Melissa Kruger (The Gospel Coalition)

Health/Fitness/Nutrition

Fitness Is the New Philosophy by Scott Mayer

Golf Balance Drills: Fix Your Body, Fix Your Swing by Team Joey D Golf

Fasting For Women Is Not As Effective For Weight-Loss. Here’s Why by Keenan Eriksson (The Ready State)

Sports

The Biggest Lie in Golf by Adam Young

How Tottenham Can Win the Premier League by Ryan O’Hanlon

Swing Path Drills Guide: How to Fix Your Excessive Club Path by Cory Olson

Personal, pure and symbolic: Messi’s perfect Newell’s homage to Maradona by Sid Lowe (The Guardian)

Business/Finances

Productive Uncertainty by Jerry Neumann

Should you invest in Wish? An S-1 Analysis by Adam Keesling

healthOS by Rob Litterst and Nathan Baschez

CWS Market Review — December 4, 2020 by Eddy Elfenbein (Crossing Wall Street)

Taiwan and Supply Chain Frenmity by Byrne Hobart

This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises. by Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno (New York Times)

Introducing “How America Invests” by Karin Risi (Vanguard)

Education

“My Physics Teacher Hates Me” by Greg Jacobs

Education Is Looking a Lot Like Cambridge, Mass. by Frederick Hess

Learners Investing in Learning: The IKEA Effect by Steve Barkley

Tutors to Teachers: Could a National Tutoring Corps Help Hard-to-Staff Schools? by Robert Slavin

Science/Technology

The “Well-Posedness” of Differential Equations: the Sense of Hadamard by Adam Taylor

Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? by Erik Engheim

Rethinking the Internet, Again by Cal Newport

The Physics Of Why You Must Never Deep Fry A Frozen Turkey by Ethan Siegel

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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