by Eddie Pipkin
Reading author and reporter Ann Helen Peterson’s Culture Study newsletter on Substack last week, my ears perked up when she got on a rant about her wearable fitness tracker. She loves her rants, AHP, as do we all! This one was about the ways in which our ubiquitous body-worn tech is great at ‘gamifying’ fitness goals but not-so-great at encouraging its wearers to get the proper amount of daily rest, and it’s practically useless in advising us to slow down or abort our workout when a less strenuous pace is beneficial for the greater goal of overall health. So true, so true. The goals we set and the metrics we use to motivate ourselves to achieve those goals are only as useful as the questions we’re solving for in the first place. The complex challenges of ministry mean we need to be crystal clear about our objectives, short-term and lon