-
It would not be my last. I wrote a post after we learned the news of Osama Bin Liden’s death that went viral shortly, and now that I’m thinking about it I wrote an article that MSNBC posted after 9/11, so I guess I’m selling myself a little short. The AA Boy Meets AA Girl…
-
Hello world! Its been a very long time since I’ve written anything at all on here and I went through some massive changes, spiritually, geographically, and even matrimonially! I moved to Florida, became Catholic, albeit not a very good one, and married a woman I love with a 3 year old daughter who is now…
-
First, credit where it belongs: Books4Free exists because of Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, OpenStax, and eBible.org. Those teams did the hard work — decades of digitizing, proofing, and formatting the world’s public-domain books, and giving them away. I’m standing on their shoulders. What I’m adding is a reading experience around their work: an AI study…
-
A short, true story about timing, for the record. Yesterday I was deep in a planning session for Books4Free — the free reading platform I’ve been building solo, one late night at a time, with an AI as my pair programmer. We had just finished launching the World English Bible: a translation one man spent…
-
How a 25-year volunteer translation found a new home on Books4Free, why we kept the name Yahweh, and where this road eventually leads. A few weeks ago I was looking at the reading stats for our King James Bible — the most-read book on Books4Free, and one of the first we ever made fully free…
-
I got sober in Atlanta, GA in 2005 -2006 initially, and then over the next decade, and the early days were filled with Woody Davis and I shooting the shit. Woody was one of a kind, and I’d be lying if I said we always got along, but we did get along most of the…
-
It’s been a while since I blogged anything at all. I have regrets about writing the memoir so early in my sobriety. I should have waited until I was 20 years sober. The world is such a mess, both leading presidential candidates seem ancient and neither can operate a computer, so how are they running…
-
I’m around 12 years sober, and have struggled this year with a new dilemma, too many opportunities to choose from. What I thought I wanted, I don’t seem to want, and what I thought would be a great job offer, I received with stock and turned it down. It’s quite amazing that I could receive…
-
So clearly I have a long history of chronic headaches and thought trying CBD Oil would be worthwhile as I was told it had no THC, no psychoactive properties if you will, and I thought hell i’ll give it a shot. The topic got brought up in our local AA Facebook recovery group and got…
-
It’s actually been out for a few months now but I’ve been so slammed in the real career I haven’t had a second to process this, though I think I did mention it under the Jared Bryan Smith Facebook page. We could definitely use some good reviews though, if you have the time to make…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
JB Smiths Blog - Author @ books4free.com 