Month: July 2020

Startup Life vs Faith Life

This piece from a not-too-ancient Wired, Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life, has a glib headline, but does try to cover some interesting topics – notably, how does one start or operate a business in keeping with a central code of ethics, without burning oneself out.

It’s interesting to see this bound to "startup life" (though it’s clearly good target coverage), as faith-aligned businesses are certainly prominent and longstanding. Also missing – how would these discussions and deliberations be altered (or would they?) by different faiths? For a flippant example, how does Marie Kondo’s animist practices cover her recently sold business? What of business people who practice within islamic credit facilities, etc?

Small Town Newspapers: Marfa, Texas

My magazine reading tends to lag by weeks or months, so I’m just coming across this lovely piece from the October Texas Monthly – Long Live the ‘Big Bend Sentinal’, Viva ‘El Internaticional’. It’s a lovely not too long read (10m) about the life and turnover of two regional newspapers. I won’t spoil the ending, but if you’re like me and read lots of these media articles with a sense of trepidation, this is a rewarding one.

Related, this piece from Texas Monthly from 2006 profiling one of the Big Bend Sentinel’s reporters, Sterry Butcher. You’ll come for the hominess, stick around for the raciness.

Want to read the source? Check out Big Bend Sentinel Online.