Persistent Productivity
Keep working, no matter what happens. Persistence is one of the most important factors for success. Working on this website part time is an excruciatingly slow process.
I’m 60 years old. I have to walk a mile down the hill to the bus stop, to get to work. Then ride for half an hour to downtown Seattle. Then, I work in a very stressful retail environment. After the bus ride home, I walk a mile up the hill to my apartment.
It is very distracting. Getting back into writing stories is not always easy. For one thing, I tend to start new projects a lot and the project I was working on last week gets lost in the shuffle.
I’m also doing a lot of research for the articles I write. Reading and watching videos. I’m trying to learn how Linux works and how to use these free and open source tools, like Kdenlive and Krita, to create content for a very attractive website.
Perhaps I should start using Org mode of the Spacemacs application I recently installed, to better manage my time. That’s not really my style, but I feel like I’m getting bogged down in the business of life right now.
This is a huge project. I have read many books about how Linux works and I still don’t understand it very well. I’m working on writing a story that describes it in terms that someone with very little academic education can understand.
Most of the literature I’ve read describes how Linux works in a big corporation. I’m writing a story about how to make Linux work for your own home office based free enterprise.
I’ve thought about setting up some kind of commenting system and enabling other authors to contribute. Of course, I would have to start working on attracting more traffic, for that idea to work.
My plan is to write these stories on the website and then, convert them into a book and publish it using Bookbaby or Lulu.com. I’m not really concerned about who writes the stories. I just want a single resource that people can use to learn how to use Linux and other free and open source software to produce their own free enterprise.
You know, so many people are complaining about the authoritarian economic system we have, including me. This story and this website and the book are my effort to contribute to solving that problem, to restoring our capitalist system of private property and free enterprise.
Big giant corporations owning and controlling everything is national socialism, not capitalism. Capitalism is families owning and controlling their own means of production. You work to produce enough food and shelter for you and your family. Anything you produce after that is profit, it is your capital.
Work on accumulating capital. I recommend investing in the stock market, because you’re investing in the productivity of the people of earth. Do not be greedy or materialistic. Let your moral sentiments guide you. Do not harm anyone.
I am not at all opposed to big business. Corporations accomplish things that no small business can accomplish. I’m just working on creating a thriving information age cottage industry ecosystem, which enables entrepreneurs to create profitable, family scale free enterprise.
I’m also very interested in the ethics of business and commerce and will be writing about that throughout this story. All these individual stories add up to one big, very valuable story.
Make sure that whatever you produce is harmless and helpful for someone. Beware of the three white poisons; sugar, salt and white flour. Sugar and salt are nutritious when used in moderation. They are poisonous when used excessively.
White flour is created by removing the nutritious ingredients of flour. We need to eat those nutrients, not remove them, so the food will last a long time on the store shelf.
Persistent productivity is a good attitude. Cultivate that habit in your personality. Practice persistent productivity every day, for as long as you are alive on earth.
Sitting around watching TV is not productive and it cultivates very bad habits. Cultivate productive, profitable habits.
Add value to our one, world wide, free marketplace.