Joshua P. Steele

Do you make and use mind maps? If so, what do you use to make them? Pen and paper? Software? I’m trying to decide between Obisidian and MindNode, but wondering if I should expand my options. #mindmap #pkm #notes #creativity

Looking for a good, thorough list of all the Bible verses that support universalism.

Lol. Reviewing my subscriptions in the App Store. Every other subscription keeps going until the end date if you cancel. Except Apple Music! You instantly lose access to the free trial when you cancel. Bummer. I’m out!

Ugh, I might cancel my Kagi subscription after reading this. “I lost faith in Kagi” - d-shoot.net/kagi.html

I’m home alone this weekend, so, naturally, I’m planning to resume my LOTR extended editions marathon… What are your weekend plans?

UPDATE to the heat pump thing. After poking around for awhile, I noticed that the breaker in my main electrical panel inside marked “Heat pump” was quite loose. When I attempted to turn it off and then on again, it moved, and I heard the heat pump come on. Seems to be working now!

Help me diagnose what’s going on with my very old heat pump. I’m not sure if it’s getting power, because it doesn’t seem to turn on at all. I don’t recognize the kind of switch that’s in the box on the back of my house. Anyone have any pointers? #heatpump #hvac #electrician #homerepair

Random, but I wonder what % of humans who’ve ever lived have seen totality in a solar eclipse.

Welp, the world didn’t end. So I guess we can still watch March Madness tonight! 🏀🌞🌑🌎

Agree or disagree? “Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” (David Allen, Getting Things Done)

Does anyone else out there feel like they have a pretty minimal collection of memories from their childhood? I remember a few highlights and lowlights. But most other people seem to have more memories from their childhood than I do.

What’s a word, phrase, framework, or concept that gave you the biggest “aha!” moment, describing something in your life that, until that moment, you didn’t have words for?

Connections Puzzle #300 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

What are your weekend plans? We’re getting Indian takeout and watching a movie with the kids tonight. I’m excited! Would also appreciate good kids movie recommendations, otherwise we might default to rewatching Frozen for the 100th time…

I’m absolutely loving the Micro.publish Obsidian plugin to easily publish posts and pages from Obsidian to my Micro.blog! Do any #obsidian nerds out there have a good setup for quickly publishing something from Obsidian to a self-hosted WordPress blog? #obsidian #wordpress #blogging

Any Blackstone griddle enthusiasts out there? My wife really wants one by summer. I’m getting more excited about it. Just waiting for one with a hood to go on sale.

I’d like to read Iain McGilchrist’s work. Do I need to read The Master and His Emissary before reading The Matter with Things?

I’m on the lookout for a used pickup truck. Would love a Toyota Tacoma, but I’m wondering if they’re all overpriced right now? Any thoughts on Tacomas and/or other truck recs? I’m in NW Ohio, USA.

Big ol’ “JK” to the April 1st “I’m now a Trump supporter” post yesterday!

I think Trump is a pathological liar, wannabe dictator, and a genuine threat to democracy. I’ve got plenty of religious/theological objections to him and his policies, but, even as just a red-blooded American, I think he’s a huge embarrassment to the country, an abandonment of what’s admirable and honorable about the USA experiment.

The descent of the Republican Party and large swaths of American “evangelicalism” into full-throated Trump-ism is one of the saddest and most frustrating things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.

I’m no fanboy for Biden and the DNC. I wish we had younger candidates on the ballot. I wish we had more than just 2 dominant political parties. I wish we had more candidates that represent a consistently pro-life ethic that, yes, protects the unborn and seeks to reduce the overall number of abortions, but also protects the rights of women, children, poor, minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ+, etc.

Nevertheless, I think it’s a mistake to reduce someone’s vote for president to any one issue. And I reject the idea that Biden and Trump are equivalently bad, or that the GOP and the DNC are equivalently flawed and dangerous to the country right now.

I think Joe Biden has done a decent job as president. I think concerns about his age, memory, etc., have been overblown. I think that critiques of the economy under his leadership have been overblown, and that the real state of the economy is much better than people tend to paint it.

I think that Joe Biden is much closer to the kind of reasonable political middle ground that this country needs. Much further away from extremism on the Left than Trump and his ilk are from extremism on the Right.

I think that, despite his flaws, Joe Biden is much less of a threat to democracy and to the overall welfare of our country and the world than Donald Trump is.

So, I plan to vote for Joe Biden again this November. And I think that others should vote for Joe Biden, too.

I put 1oz of Drambuie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream in my afternoon decaf coffee and it’s…not bad!