Cody Hall

My aunt gave me this one for Christmas and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. Dartnell explores the fundamental building blocks of everything we enjoy about modern civilization.

It’s remarkable to think about how long it took us to arrive at the technological maturity level we experience today.

I finished this one by Perman this week. It is encouraging, biblical, and practical. It is changing my daily approach to productivity more than any other content I’ve crunched in the last five years.

Perman spends about two-thirds of the book on productivity’s biblical and theological foundation — and rightfully so! He’s about to turn the corner into suggestions for tools and frameworks to use daily to manage your work in progress.

This one was recommended to me by a close friend and supporter. He and I were roommates in college for three of my four years at Cedarville University. His small group at church has been going through this book together and he said it’s been huge for him.

We’ve had conversations over the years about our struggles and one that we share is our tendency toward workaholism. At the core, this is idolizing productivity and work, and chasing after personal worth and value through work, rather than finding our identity in Christ.

I’m reading this with my Dad; I just started last week. It’s an excellent, thorough history from Lyn Alden. I read nearly everything she writes and have benefited immensely from her analysis of both historic and current macro conditions.