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I haven’t been writing as frequently for The New York Times over the past few months because I’ve been buried in book writing, but my current beat there can best be described as “things that give you diarrhea.” I’ve written for them about norovirus, listeria, salmonella, and, just this morning, E. coli. That last one completely took over my brain yesterday — I essentially reported, wrote, and went through edits for the piece in a day — which is why my newsletter is a little late today.

Today is National Marching Band Day. I LOVE marching bands. Marching bands make my heart race and they sometimes make me cry. They make me feel the patriotic feels and make me experience actual wonder. On the one hand, there are the going-to-war marching band songs with drumlines that sound like sadness and resolve. On the other hand, there is the unbri… ncG1vNJzZmiin66wprjIp5yhmZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq56mXZu8s3nTqJuasV2jrrW1zqeYpWWdlr%2BktMinnmaakaOx

Adam Grant says it best: Self-deprecating humor disrupts defensiveness and builds humility. It reminds you that you are only human. Taking your responsibilities seriously should never stand in the way of taking your ego lightly. So here are my favorite 10 growth memes I’ve created! 😊 Enjoy 😊 It’s.. confusing. Part product and part marketing. Accepted by neither. Hard reality behind Product-led Growth (PLG) is that product has to be able to sell itself.

Before The Chosen, there was The Bible. The ten-part miniseries—which spanned the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation—launched its first two episodes on the History Channel ten years ago today, and it was such a big, big smash hit that it led to spin-offs, sequels, and other projects that kept husband-and-wife producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey busy for years. In a sense, they’re still busy. They’ve got a new film coming out next month: On a Wing and a Prayer, starring Dennis Quaid as a real-life airplane passenger who had to land his plane safely after the pilot died.

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On December 11th, 1981 the composer Terry Jennings was robbed, beaten, and left for dead in San Pablo, California. Friends and family were informed that a drug deal had gone awry, and that, as they had so often predicted, Jennings’ years-long addiction to heroin had finally caught up with him. His broken skull and his senseless death, it seemed, were simply a result of poor choices, of a disregard for the workings of the world that led him to keep “unsavory” company and to shun treatment for his addiction.

“Terry is a bulldog on questions of Christianity and culture, and writes prophetically to Christian leaders, both ordained and lay, about their urgent responsibility to disciple the faithful in the world in which we actually live, as opposed to the world they wish we lived in (the one where they don't have to take hard stands against popular habits). I look forward to seeing what he does with this newsletter.”