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Interpretive replacements sometimes erase context
There’s a practice I’ve encountered in Biblical interpretation which often leaves me with some unease. Not because I haven’t done it myself, I have. Maybe it’s because the practice feels too close to interpretation by mystic symbology. The practice is finding a term or phrase in the New Testament that gets applied to Jesus, then interpreting that term as a pseudonym for Jesus in the Old Testament. The example I run into most regularly is the transformation of “Angel of the LORD” to “Jesus pre-incarnate”.…
Biblical interpretation is cyclical
As I’ve matured, one of the ambiguities I’ve learned to accept is the journey of interpretation. When I was younger, I expected that a full and complete grasp of the Bible was a matter of time and effort. Now that I’m a little wiser, I realize that I am on a journey of discovery that has no final end nor milestones to mark progress. The best I can claim is that I understand a part of the whole and part of any one page, and that’s true for every person I’ve met.…
Business discovery is uncomfortable
It’s more comfortable to scale to big business than stay in the customer discovery cycle until there’s a repeatable, scalable business model. The majority of the world’s business people know how to operate an established business. Everyone can give a summary of departmental structure (Marketing, Sales, Product Development). The language is the same, the tasks are similar. Now take a startup. Depending on the market it’s attempting to reach, the structure of the company may be entirely different.…
Lean startups live by the agile manifesto
Lean startups may take the Agile Manifesto principles for their own. The Agile Manifesto principles ((Tycho Press, pg. 93-97)) are as follows: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan With a slight modification to the second bullet to match industries other than software, these principles match the needs of a lean startup.…