In Focus – Page 3 – Jesse Steele

Written for Jordan Peterson Enthusiasts

Jesse SteeleSeptember 15, 2018

It’s been about a month since it was released: Watch Stand Pray 365. It’s in Amazon paperback and Kindle, and the first 1,000 are free in most other ebookstores. I was inspired by what people said about Jordan, though I had never once heard him talk. Except one short critique on his now-famous interview, I had never see or heard one word from Jordan. That was to make sure the book wasn’t the least bit tainted. Now that I’m finished and am listening to Jordan, I see he and I had a lot in common in our thinking.

So, here it is… Watch Stand Pray 365

Three hundred sixty-five positive, pithy, practical, heart-probing, moral-focused reads, three hundred sixty-five words each · · · →

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Business Guilds, Sunday Morning & Boring Glory

The EditorJuly 18, 2018

Businesses know it is bad business to badmouth other businesses. Competition between coffee shops and skate shops can get downright ugly, but there is a line of negativity that these entrepreneurs know must not be crossed. Those who cross it ensnare their customers in a guild feud and their business walks out overnight.

In business, this is easy to understand: Respect your competition.

This fully applies to Sunday morning “fellowship” congregations, but only in practice, never in name. If you see the business guild on Sunday morning for what it is, “respect between competitors” is easy to navigate. Pastors “respecting each others’ parishioners” makes perfect sense, you will know what to say and not say and when to say and not say it. The entire collection of Sunday morning territorial turf battles are perfectly sensible, if seen from the vantage point of respect between business competitors.

But, pastors can’t explain it so cut and dry. · · · →

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Microsoft Buys GitHub

Jesse SteeleJune 5, 2018

For me, it’s a yeah-boo. Microsoft seems to do well with their acquisitions, staying true to founder DNA, just as quietly having converted to the evangel of Open Source as the Hippies quietly put on their shirts and ties in the 1970s and slipped out the back door to work. It’s a welcome change.

Microsoft would have my support if Windows became a fully-open Linux-ready, robust platform, supporting both Debian and RPM install packages. If “cloud as a service” is the monetizable future as much as purported by the roadmap form the closet Microsoft cult members leading FaithLife (owners of the good old classic Logos Bible software)—well, then Microsoft should go fully Open Source anyway.

I still hold a grudge against Microsoft for Bill Gates’ dream of a population reduced by billions of people, not to mention how Gates killed IBM’s robust OS/2—along with many great software startups—with his lies about the Windows 3 release timeline. Gates has a two-word legacy: deception and murder.

Then, there’s the whole manual updates on Windows 10. Apparently Microsoft developers never fly on airplanes where computers need to be shut off when the captain wants them off, not when Windows Update decides to allow.

Others feel the same way. But hey, nobody’s perfect. Let’s think happy thoughts so no one accuses us of being “negative”.

I hope and pray the best for GitHub, the latest acquisition of Microsoft and all it stands for. It will need all the prayer it can get. My projects will continue on GitHub until something better comes along. GitHub has been really good to me and I truly believe Microsoft will continue that and only help. It’s not Microsoft’s roadmap for GitHub that concerns me, but Bill Gate’s roadmap for the world. With all the “friends” Gates is so good at alienating, GitHub could see a new rival immanently. With the right UI, Fossil could become the next widely-used platform. But, I don’t plan to jump ship anytime soon.

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Net Neutrality: A Letter to Congress

Jesse SteeleMay 16, 2018

This is my letter to Congressman John Mooleanaar, May 17, 2018

Congressman Mooleanaar,

I am writing about the recent “Net Neutrality” issue. I believe that some aspects of this issue should be bipartisan, including a Conservative flavor. I myself am a Conservative in every way I imagine.

The Declaration of Independence references “Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good”. I believe that this includes preventing monopolies and de facto utilities, such as many Internet giant companies have become, including ISP and Social Media giants like Google and Facebook. The Constitution protects the people, from government by creating checks and balances, and from fascism (private wealth and corporate money) by creating a government to prevent monopoly. It is freedom of the people to grant final consent for governance of their own freedoms, not “all powers surrendered to the private sector”, that makes one a Conservative.

So, Conservative ideology, as I just described it, must defend the Net Neutrality issue. · · · →