Benson Lee

product at @planningcenter, husband to @puttingme2gther, dad of 3, and general tech enthusiast

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I’m for civility, BUT civility does not = true peace.

I believe in kindness, BUT kindness does not = justice.

Be careful not to try to substitute civility and kindness for true peace and justice.

Or to try to hinder true peace and justice with calls for civility and kindness.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Oh, the uncomfortable silence as I read Dr. King's words at a commemoration of Dr. King's life when people had no idea that these were his words. When I revealed that everything I said to that point was taken from his speeches between '56 and 67... Can you say SHOOK!

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

So, I scrapped my original speech and spent the entire first half of it reading excerpts from a bunch of Dr. King's speeches, but without telling anyone that I was doing so, leading the audience to think King's words were mine. And, whew, chile, it was AMAZING.

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

When they asked for clarity, they learned that they meant exactly what was shared.

For her, “Freedom in Christ meant giving up your individual rights for the sake of following Jesus. It was cruciform. Death to self for the sake of others and for the glory of God.”

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

One of my graduate students from Taiwan was shocked when in a class, the professor asked what does freedom in Christ mean?

She was dismayed when some of her Americans classmates said, “the freedom to do whatever we want since we are no longer bound by the consequences of sin.”

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

Jesus: “Show me your open tab.”

me: "I have no tab open."

Jesus: "You are right in saying, ‘I have no open tabs,' for you have forty-three open, and the ones you now have open you have not read."

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Managing is designing.

Except instead of designing products, interfaces or services, you are designing how a group of people can create something more together than apart.

Which people are needed? Who should do what? How do folks collaborate?

These are design questions.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

@KevinDr_ver The punch line is *not* "therefore people closer to power cannot be trusted," but "this is why you might be able to do without concentrated power, but if you care about truth and truthfulness, you can't do without people who speak truth irrespective of power considerations."

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

All of which suggests why God in the OT seems to think a people can survive just fine without a king (if they walk in the ways of YHWH) . . . but never even hints that they could survive without prophets.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

TL;DR proximity to power often limits your ability to speak truth quickly, decisively, and publicly. It's the price of admission.

[Liz Slade @lizslayed]

This dad press conference is excellent 😂

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

Hero worship paints certain people as “Good” and idolises them, placing them on high pedestals. The higher the pedestal the greater the fall.

But painting someone as Good makes it difficult to decide what to do when they behave badly. Hence the outbreaks like this week.

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

It’s why I say, “hero worship kills community.” Accountability is care for the community first then self second.

When you get held accountable, it’s the community saying, “Our collective values were broken by you as an individual. Please commit to doing better.”

[Benson Lee @besologic]

@dannydb Tangentially related - recently discovered @nuggetcomfort 🧐

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

The reason we told this story often (thank you @aaron_!) was to remember a fundamental product truth:

It is not about how many features you add or how much work the team did.

What matters is: did we understand the users' needs well enough to give them what they wanted most?

[Benson Lee @besologic]

@albreybrown 🙏🏼

[Dr Aisha Ahmad @ProfAishaAhmad]

The 6 month mark in any sustained crisis is always difficult. We have all adjusted to this "new normal", but might now feel like we're running out of steam. Yet, at best, we are only 1/3 the way through this marathon. How can we keep going? THREAD /x

[Jonathan Merritt @JonathanMerritt]

MY LATEST: Evangelicals perfected “cancel culture.” Now it’s coming for them. https://t.co/7psRs4BCXW via @RNS

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

When you boil down our political conflicts, you see that most disagreements are about What Is, not What Should Be. When people agree about what the tree looks like they only have minor disagreements about what to do with the ladders. The conflicts are about the shape of the tree.