Category: Work

My Work This Year
Almost everything I wrote this year ran here at Mere O, either on the main site or here at Commonplaces. Here’s a link to everything I wrote on the main site. It’s been rather a busy year—I’ve written about 110,000 words on Mere...

Christian Publications in a Post-Christian Context
We know there are two models that work for financing media jobs right now. The first model is to work for a print legacy institution that was well-positioned to weather the transition to digital and is now flush with subscription...

Dealing with Burnout Like a Christian
Chris Krycho: For the last several months, I’ve been experiencing what I initially described as mild burnout. I’m not sure how mild it is at this point, but I’m definitely still experiencing it. As a result, I’m still thinking about how to mitigate...

Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar
This is good for those of us who aspire to doing intellectual work outside of the academy or the world of “professional intellectuals”: