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::: Why Fifty Percent of Messengers Voice Traffic Comes from Cambodia 

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::: The Post Pandemic Church 

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 ::: Each section of this map contains 10% of the world's population.

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::: All the Health Risks for Global Traveler James Bond
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::: A Bitcoin Microeconomy to Help the Poor
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::: South Korea a cultural superpower
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Photo: Iguana Island, Turks and Caicos, October 2021.


Opportunity: if you are interested in serving at a Christmas party for refugees, get in touch.

Friday Burn

::: A Fewer Good Men

Neither the sex lives of young American men nor their relative rate of college attendance is that striking by itself. Except to the men involved. What should trouble all of us is what these statistics portend.

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::: The 2021 Most Powerful Passport Ranking
Look down the list if you are from the USA.
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::: An Interview with Robert Dunbar, of Dunbar's Number
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Photo: White Sands, NM. August 2021.

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::: Global Trends 2040

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::: Instagram and the Well Being of Teenagers

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::: 10 Spiritual Traits of the Pacific Northwest that Made Mars Hill Possible

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Photo: Joshua Tree NP, August 2021.

And a quick Ember update... exploring a slow relaunch. Reach out if you want to explore working on something together.

Friday Burn

:::A Summer of Hell is Coming to US Airports
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::: A US Missions Agency and Spain's Technology Hub
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::: There are Two Types of Airport People
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::: McDonald's Serves as Mini US Embassies
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::: Gladwell on How School Shootings Catch On
Link via The Weekend Reader


::: Crossing Cultures - The First 90 Days
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Photo: McDonalds, Vienna, Austria. July 2007.

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::: Remembering Sabika Sheikh
The most powerful thing I have read in a long time.
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::: Algorithms, Human Rights Abuse and Justice
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::: Micromobility Will Transform Cities
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Photo: Ramadan July 2014, Aix-en-Provence.

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::: Inside the Secret Team Dinners that Have Built the San Antonio Spurs' Dynasty
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::: Facebook AI Powered Maps Help Vaccination Campaigns
Link via Justin Long's Weekly Roundup


::: The Pool - Charity: Water Engaging Tech Equity for Their Employees

...founders and paper billionaires from Uber, WeWork and Casper have pledged at least 1 percent of their shares to the new program, which Charity: water is calling The Pool. That all but guarantees that the organization’s 78 employees will share in the spoils from some of the most hotly anticipated initial public offerings in the history of Wall Street.

Link via Kyle Westaway's Weekend Briefing

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::: By the End of this Century, the Global Population will Start to Shrink
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A very big deal, but I won't be around to help you worry about it.


::: Mosaic LA - Here to Stay
Mosaic has an opportunity to purchase their gathering space in Hollywood. Here's part of a letter Erwin McManus wrote:

When my family moved to Los Angeles over 25 years ago, we came with the conviction that Los Angeles was the epicenter of human creativity. Creativity is the unique economy of Hollywood, and in the same way that Los Angeles inhales the world’s talent and beauty, it can exhale the gospel.

This exact vision was what captivated me in 2004 about Mosaic and Erwin's leadership.
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::: The State of Social Entrepreneurship - 2019
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Picture: Perspectives, Lancaster Bible College, April 2019.

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::: Is God Working in Iceland?
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::: An 8th Grader Joins Social Media and Discovers That Her Mom Had Been Posting About Her For Her Entire Life
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::: The Most Post Christian Cities in America, 2017
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::: Scott Harrison, founder of Charity:Water, on a Reddit AMA
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::: Scientists Have Discovered a Shape that Blocks All Sound
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::: Revolution Annapolis Wipes Out Nearly $2M of Medical Debt
Incredible.
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Photo: Hanging with the Metzgers, Affordable Annapolis Lab Night #3. [Tell you more about this later]

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::: What I Gave My Kid Instead of a Smartphone
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::: Take a Picture of a Spreadsheet and MS Excel Will Now Import It
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::: Soft Robotics
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Photo: Cru UMBC.

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::: How to be Successful
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::: The Difference Between People Who Move Abroad and Those Who Don't
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::: Donations to Charity Plummeted Last Year, Except from the Super Rich
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Photo: Todd Ahrend.

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::: Three Hopeful Signs in Ending Poverty
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::: Five Tips for Better Fundraising
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::: The Weekly Email
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::: The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
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::: The Gates Annual Letter
Required reading. This year includes education, toilets, young people, and mobile phones.
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::: Instagram for Prisons
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::: Four Models of Church that are Thriving
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::: Is this a deep water problem or a big wave problem?
Classic Seth Godin. So good.
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::: The Michael J. Fox Foundation Gets Results
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::: Scaling Systems Up and Down
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::: First Child Vaccine Delivered by Drone
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::: Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

I don't fear missing out. I fear not giving enough attention to the things that I already know for sure are important.

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::: What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
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::: Ping an Good Doctor, Chinese AI based minute clinics
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::: 15 Ways the World Got Better in 2018
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::: Stadia to provide all church planting resources free of charge
Because of the Pinetops report. So sweet.
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::: 8 Forecasts for the Future - Scott Belsky
Author of The Messy Middle and Making Ideas Happen.
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::: Preparing Your Kids For Jobs That Don't Exist Yet
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::: The key pathology of our time, which seduces us all, is the reduction of our imagination so that we are too numbed, satiated, and co-opted to do serious imaginative work. - Walter Brueggemann via Dave Blanchard

Friday Burn

::: How do European Countries Differ in Religious Commitment?
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::: How I Made Sure all 12 of My Kids Could Pay for College Themselves
Link via Terry Storch


::: Your Phone is a Tool Not Your Boss
This is incredible. Most of you should read this and do at least a few of these.
Link via Tim Ferriss