Every year I wish I had read more books. Once i get into a book I’m good, but when i finish it takes me forever to get back into that groove of the “next” book. I tend to bounce from book to book until I find that next one. That next one right now is Tony Reinke’s new book, God, Technology, and the Christian Life.

There are so few tehcnologically deep, well written, books that combine faith and technology, but this is one of them, so far. I’m just getting started, but Reinke’s balanced objective voice shows how science, technology, and faith in God all coexist and often compliment each other. I can’t wait to get to the meat of the text.

Books in the technology genre are some of my favorite, but they often get outdated very quickly. Some that have stood the test of time and are favorites of mine are (in no paticular order):

• Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
• The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
• The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
• Viral by Leonard Sweet
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke

I’m sure there are plenty of others, those are just some on my list. 📚

I love the RSS feed and think it’s one of the most powerful tools someone can use to filter and currate content on the web. It’s also one of the most undervalued and underused options. Unfortunately on March 13, 2013, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating the product had a loyal but declining following, and at that point, Google pretty much killed the popular use of RSS.

My RSS reader still has several hundred feeds that transferred over to Feedly when Google shut down, but I haven’t opened Feedly in some time. There are several different sites I’m actively using now that have great RSS feeds so I went back to looking at readers and the two main players are Feedly and Inoreader.

Fastfoward to 2022 and I’m pleasantly surprised how great these two apps have been developed. But I’m torn between the two, and both have subscriptions to get full features. Reviews really push Inoreader and the features they offer, but I have found Inoreader to be somewhat confusing, complicated, and complex to do what I want, read. Feedly may be the old non-flashy app but the UI for reading is amazing.