Logan McLain

Christian, Dad, UX, Soft Dev, Hiring, Scaling Businesses || COO at Kitestring Technical Services

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

@DiligentPlane I’m a huge MU fan as well, and I believe the market is acting irrationally compared to how well the company is performing. But realistically, what will be the actual catalyst for MU to hit all time highs sooner than we think? Why won’t the market just remain irrational?

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@TradingWarz ME

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@StockOptions888 $ARM

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@JasonL_Capital Leap

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@WealthCoachMak Can this be done on Robinhood somehow? If not, what is your favorite platform for this?

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

@FinXRob Looks like a great offering. Can this “cash” be used as options collateral?

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

X friends, help me out!

I saw something on X about an AI tool that will do a weekly check-in with each of your direct reports to understand their tasks and capacity, and summarize this in a report back up to management.

Can anyone point me towards that tool?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

If you got married to someone thoughtful, responsible, driven, with whom you can have stimulating conversations every day, someone who has your back, who makes you feel loved in a society where no one has time anymore, treasure them, you already won the lottery.

[John Nabors @JohnNaborsShow]

All Hog fans feel this.

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

@MaddoxBell23 @coachwjameson @bdspencer10 @Harding_MBB @GobsBasketball @d_stahler @ARHoopScoop @BeEliteSports @rush_court @AYSABasketball @ArRecruitingGuy Amazing man! Congrats!

[nolen @itseieio]

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

[staring at a merge conflict]

me: *under my breath* this is going to ruin the tour

[Catch Up @CatchUpFeed]

Argentinian president and self-described anarcho-capiatlist Javier Milei tells the WEF: "The Western world is in danger." (Fully captioned and subtitled)

[David Perell @david_perell]

I went from thinking the Bible was the most boring book ever to seeing the magic in it.

Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. Though I was motivated to learn about it, I didn't have the patience to read it or the knowledge to understand it.

Generally, I try to follow my 4th-grade English teacher's advice to read things first-hand. But the Bible seemed too hard, too boring, and too confusing to read on my own. It was a snooze fest. The stories felt outdated in a world of smartphones and fast Internet. Living in the modern world, shouldn’t I be rooting my life in modern books, modern studies, and modern authors?

At the time, I was living in New York when a friend introduced me to the work of Tim Keller. I reluctantly found time to put down the self-help and picked up two of his books instead: The Reason for God and Making Sense of God. It was around that time when I discovered Keller's Questioning Christianity lecture series.

Instead of focusing on the Bible directly, Keller focused on Christianity's relationship with culture and the modern world. He spoke to career-driven Gordon Gekkos who were driven by the glories of the material world, but sensed the emptiness at the heart of such a single-minded pursuit. Instead of referencing scripture directly, he spoke about big-picture themes like identity and purpose, morality and meaning.

This was back when I thought all Christians had the intelligence of sidewalk pigeons. I would scoff at church-goers because I didn’t understand why anyone would worship a sky fairy or follow rules from thousands of years ago. Keller was the guide I needed.

For the first few years, I looked at faith through a cultural lens instead of reading the Bible directly. I literally knew nothing about Jesus or Christianity — and I came to realize how little I knew about my own atheism too. In school, while studying the Declaration of Independence, I’d learned that it’s “self-evident” that “all men are created equal.” Turns out, this defining American ideal is only self-evident if you assume that every person has inherent worth because they’re made in the image of God. I was stumped. Where did my moral compass come from? Do people have inherent value? And if so, is it because every human is a child of God?

In addition to advocating for the life of Jesus and the truth of his message, Keller revealed the many assumptions underlying my own atheistic worldview. He taught me that every worldview requires a leap of faith. Sure, Christianity couldn’t perfectly explain everything in the universe, but then again, neither can any worldview. Astrophysicists say that much of the universe is made up of “dark matter,” which is a scientific-sounding way to talk about a leap of faith

Though I did some Bible studies, I never enjoyed them. They felt more like reading tedious academic papers than drinking directly from the fountain of God’s wisdom. Instead of reading Scripture directly, I joined a small Christian reading group where I was the only non-believer. By showing me coherent ways to interpret reality besides my science-based materialism, books like The Story of Reality and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist loosened the screws on my atheism.

My palate was beginning to change. Like a fine wine, the same flavors that were once repulsive to me started to appeal to my intellectual taste buds. I surrounded myself with wise Christians who were orthodox about scripture and eager to answer my hardest questions about faith. I asked them to dinner and invited myself to Church with them.

This marked a new era. Once again, I found some guides: books, Internet sources, and an in-person leader to show me the way. On the Internet, I'd turn to The Bible Project to answer my big-picture thematic questions. I picked up the ESV Study Bible, which I still read every day on the white boucle couch in my living room (if you like reading on the computer, I recommend The Bible Study App by Olive Tree).

For years, I’d stiff-armed the Bible. Now, I was skipping to a 7am Bible Study led by a devout believer who'd been reading God's word every day for almost a quarter-century, and wasn’t afraid to rebuke my theology.

What surprised me most was how carefully we read. I admired the integrity of our study. We live in a culture of binge-reading where people boast about how many books they can complete in a given year. We did the opposite. We never read more than ~20 verses in a single session and dissected every word, every verse, and every story. (I once spent two hours studying John 1:1-4 — just four verses at a strip mall Schlotzsky's in the Texas Hill Country.)

Never in my life had I read so deliberately. I spent months in the books of Ephesians, Romans, John, and 2 Corinthians, and there's no way I would've known how to read the Bible so diligently on my own. I learned to look beyond English translations, and I use the BibleHub to look up the original Greek and Hebrew whenever possible.

For a translation, I recommend the English Standard Version (ESV) (no, you don’t need to read the King James Version). And If you're going to pick two books, I recommend the Gospel of John and the Book of Romans. Either find a guide to read them carefully with you or follow along with The Bible Project and The ESV Study Bible. Whatever you do, read slowly.

I used to be a serial consumer who’d brag about how many books I read every year. I’d pick up anything and everything. The more, the merry. But the more I study the Bible, the more careful I’ve become about who I read and listen to. Gone are my days as a serial consumer. Frauds, charlatans, and false teachers abound, so be skeptical and vet your sources. In all this time, I’ve had no more than ten serious teachers. Fortunately, that’s all you need.

I became a believer on March 20th of this year, four years after attending my first Tim Keller lecture, and the Bible is alive for me now like no book I've ever read.

These days, I read the Bible and basically nothing else.

Opening it up is the best part of my daily routine. The words twinkle. The stories are supernatural. It's a living, breathing document, and I wholeheartedly believe it's the Word of God, which makes every other book feel dim by comparison.

[Judianna @Judianna]

THIS HIT ME HARD.

Have you ever noticed how in the scriptures men are always going up into the mountains to commune with the Lord?

Yet in the scriptures we hardly ever
hear of women going to the mountains.
But we know why — right?

Because the women were too busy
keeping life going;
they couldn’t abandon babies,
meals,
homes,
fires,
gardens,
and a thousand responsibilities to make the climb into the mountains!

I was talking to a friend the other day,
saying that as modern woman
I feel like I’m never “free” enough
from my responsibilities,
never in a quiet enough space
I want with God.

Her response floored me,
“That is why God comes to women.
Men have to climb the mountain to meet God, but God comes to women where ever they are.”

I have been pondering on her words for weeks and have searched my scriptures
to see that what she said is true.
God does in deed come to women
where they are,
when they are doing their ordinary,
everyday work.

He meets them at the wells
where they draw water for their families,
in their homes,
in their kitchens,
in their gardens.

He comes to them
as they sit beside sickbeds,
as they give birth,
care for the elderly,
and perform necessary mourning and burial rites.

Even at the empty tomb,
Mary was the first to witness Christ’s resurrection,
She was there because she was doing the womanly chore of properly preparing Christ’s body for burial.

In these seemingly mundane
and ordinary tasks,
these women of the scriptures found themselves face to face with divinity.

So if — like me — you ever start to bemoan the fact that you don’t have as much time to spend in the mountains with God as you would like. Remember, God comes to women. He knows where we are and the burdens we carry. He sees us, and if we open our eyes and our hearts we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and in the most ordinary things.

He lives. And he’s using a time such as this to speak to women around the world.

Original 🖌: Heather F.
Credit: Lisa Harris

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Speak midwestern 101

No Yeah = Yes

Yeah no = No

Yeah no for sure = Definitely

Yeah no yeah = I’m sorry, but unfortunately, the answer is yes

No yeah no = oh no, you’ve got nothing to worry about

Ope = excuse me I’m sorry for moving by you

Welp = a time to go statement before slapping your hands on your knees signaling you’re getting up

[Jonathan @jonathanmb32]

After rewatching The Dark Knight last night I remembered that immediately after Ledger's death, Nolan wrote a piece for Newsweek about working with Ledger. I found it on the rotting remains of their website and man it still hits hard (I copy/pasted it to a Word doc due to ads)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I was recently struck by a realization:

The people I read books about are very rarely the people I would ever want to trade lives with.

Why?

The price of their success was not one I would be willing to pay.

There is a price tag for anything you want to achieve in life.

Every single thing you want is an output that requires certain inputs to buy or earn.

Importantly, there's a "List Price" and a "Real Price":

• The List Price is the actual, direct price to pay for the thing you want (effort, time, energy, etc.).

• The Real Price is the List Price plus the indirect price in the form of the tradeoffs and opportunity cost of the pursuit.

Using the example of John D. Rockefeller, the List Price for his success was the countless years of 24/7 hard work and focus, but the Real Price also included the loving relationships lost, the physical and mental health deterioration from the nonstop schedule, and the reputation damage of some of his business practices.
There's the List Price you see, and the Real Price you don't.

Before you go after anything, make sure you know both.

What I've learned: There are many things in life that look like a great deal based on the List Price, but a ripoff based on the Real Price.

Three questions we all need to ask ourselves:

1. What is the List Price of the thing you want?

2. What is the Real Price of the thing you want?

3. Are you willing to pay that Real Price?

For me, thinking clearly about the List Price and the Real Price of the things I want has helped create a balanced existence.

I spent most of my life thinking that I wanted to build something enormous, be extraordinarily rich or famous, and have some large buildings named after me.

But while the world certainly needs some people to continue thinking like that, as I've matured, I've realized that the Real Price of those things is not one that I'm willing to pay (at least not for now).

It would almost certainly mean giving up these 1pm Wednesday pool days with my son—and I'm just not willing to do that.
In a different season of my life, perhaps I will reconsider my view on the Real Price, but for now, I'm thrilled to enjoy my pool days and leave the building of something enormous to one of my amazingly ambitious followers!

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

@TravelingMead Thanks for sharing this thread! I’ve been thinking a lot about the theory of univocality/inerrancy in the Bible lately. Can you share why the variant readings make you love the book even more?

[Logan McLain @LoganAMcLain]

@JoeKnowsGames So happy for y’all! Congrats!