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Re: The Value of Working for a Bad Boss

Jared White — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:26:24 -0000

Some people go self-employed and do freelancing to get away from "bad bosses" but I can state from personal experience that when you have clients, they've hired you and they're footing the bill so in a sense they're your boss. Only now you don't have one boss, you have many -- perhaps dozens! I've had some great clients and some...not so great clients. And so I can definitely identify what you put in your list Michael. :) I think respecting other people's time is a huge one from a freelancing perspective. It's easy to go slowly out of business dealing with an overflow of unpaid overtime on projects... tweaking little things here and there to "make the client happy" ...so here's what I've learned about respect and time:

Proactively communicate in detail what you do in your work.

That probably applies to the regular employee/boss relationship as well. Don't just assume people understand the work you do based on results. They'll think the results came easy, when it could have been extremely difficult. There's no shame in explaining the difficulty of your efforts! It doesn't always work, but sometimes I hear back "wow, I had no idea that would be such a challenge!" and consequently I get more respect for time spent on other things down the road.

Re: Interview with Jared White

Jared White — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:32:03 -0000

Love the new blog design! I'll just have to link to this all over again. :)

Re: My first iOS App Experience - James Brooks

Jared White — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:46:07 -0000

Very cool. I've toyed with the notion of getting into iOS development, but my problem is I did a fair amount of Mac/Cocoa dev back in the day and now I'd have to unlearn what I remember to do the new iOS stuff!

Re: Why I built Mariposta, the Tablet-First CMS for the masses - James Brooks

Jared White — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:10:35 -0000

Just wanted to clarify that the 20% off is for the first 3 months of a paid plan. Thanks again for posting this, James!

Re: App.net Podcast: Episode 2

Jared White — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:01:41 -0000

I'm super excited about the private messages API. Sounds extremely compelling.

Re: The maker/manager transition phase

Jared White — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:24:16 -0000

Really good post Joel. I think it'll be super relevant for me soon. At present with my startup, it's a very small team and we just recently launched our product so my divide is more maker/marketer with the marketer percentage increasing dramatically. It's tough...I'd much rather code than hustle, but then that's probably because I'm better at one than the other. I'm challenging myself to make dramatic gains in my social media presence in 2013. Wish me luck. :)

Re: Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville (or, Why I Won’t Relocate to Work for Your Startup)

Jared White — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:34:52 -0000

Good post and very timely for me!

Re: 2012 - what a year - James Brooks

Jared White — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:32:24 -0000

Sounds like you had a very cool year! Sky Diving...whew that's scary but probably an amazing experience. I'm still working myself up to going up in a Hot Air Balloon. :) Hey I'm interested in hearing more about your project when it's less super-secret. Keep us posted.

Re: My 3 Words for 2013

Jared White — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:49:55 -0000

Cool words this year, Chris! Thanks for breaking that down. My 3 words are:

Value
Amplification
Creativity

I talk more about it on my blog post here:
http://jaredwhite.com/blog/...
and also share how I did last year with my 3 words.

Happy New Year, all! -Jared

Re: King James had it right…

Jared White — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:56:51 -0000

Thank you for sharing this Felicity...I've heard something similar before (probably from Frank Viola's document) but you always put things in a simple -- aka easy to grasp -- way, which I appreciate! :)

Re: When Perfect Pastors Divorce

Jared White — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:07:43 -0000

There's a bigger problem even than this epidemic of martial struggles and divorce in church pastorates and that is the structures churches create to place people in these situations in the first place. It's bordering on the absurd to (a) blame pastors for these sudden transgressions, or (b) say they just need more prayer and sympathy from their congregations when they were never intended to carry that level of burden in the first place.

The Biblical blueprint for church leadership is focused far more on a plurality of elders/shepherds, multiple leadership types (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherd, teachers), and relationship-based congregations where people are mainly ministering one to another -- aka simple, organic, or house churches. People can and will sin in those situations, but the likelihood it will go unnoticed until it's too late or the impact will simultaneously affect thousands of people in adverse ways is greatly reduced.

Until Christians begin to realize they're generating these high-profile "falls" by supporting non-Biblical church structures, they're going to continue to see this happen on a regular basis. It pains me to say that, but I feel that's simply the truth.

Re: ThisLife—now even better!

Jared White — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:25:24 -0000

Congratulations! Usually these kinds of merger news items fill me with dread, but actually this seems to be a truly beneficial partnership for both parties. Good luck with everything -Jared

Re: The Tragic Elimination of Apostolic Ministry

Jared White — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:21:53 -0000

I absolutely agree with this article! I would only add, as a caution, to be careful how you consider the role of the apostle. I've seen (mainly in some charismatic circles) the apostolic function being heavily distorted by people seeing it as some kind of "super-pastor" role where one man basically calls the shots for a whole network of churches and is seen in an almost divine light. We definitely do not want to take the already over-used and unbiblical CEO-pastor mentality and expand it even farther!

However, if you think of apostles as church planters and mentors for other leaders to help new congregations and missions get off the ground, and the ones taking principal responsibly for ensuring all the saints are equipped for the work of ministry -- and if you think of apostles co-leading with prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers (ala Ephesians 4:11) in order to do this equipping ministry -- then you'll be on the right track! Remember, apostles and prophets are not "over" everyone else -- they're beneath! The foundation of the Church is the apostles and prophets. If you want to become great, you must become the servant of all. That's how the Kingdom of Heaven works.

Re: http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/ruby-on-rails/fixing-readline-for-the-ruby-on-rails-console/

Jared White — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:16:38 -0000

Thank you thank you! That solved my problem to a T.

Re: Digg Blog, We're Building A Reader

Jared White — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:22:02 -0000

The #1 reason I use a RSS reader is because I want to be able to go to an individual news source quickly. I want to see what's new at this blog, at that newspaper, at this magazine, at that company newsfeed. I don't want everything all jumbled together via some algorithm. If I did, I'd say on Facebook or Twitter.

So if you keep the ability to organize feeds into folders (or by hashtag or keyword or whatever) and then make it easy to navigate through various feeds -- with all this being in sync between web and mobile sites/apps -- I'll likely be quite happy!

Re: The Easter women

Jared White — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:53:35 -0000

And to you as well! Hallelujah to the Risen King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

Re: Who Will Pick Up Where WordPress Left Off?

Jared White — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:30:22 -0000

WordPress is the new Windows (circa early 2000's). Nobody ever got fired for using Windows. Windows is the future, it runs on 95%+ of PCs! Windows can help anyone built a $$$$ business. Everyone knows how to use Windows, why try anything else?

I respect the WordPress developers and have many friends in the community. However, I feel WordPress has gone from useful tool for web devs to a paradigm of website building that is simply not innovative. To customize a WordPress site to the point where it's pushing the envelope of online content presentation and production takes massive bucks and a team. Nothing out of the box is all that exciting.

If WordPress is Windows, where's the iPad of web publishing? Where's the Next Big Thing? I don't know. It's a problem I'm working on in my startup. I hope Ghost maybe moves the needle. Medium is certainly doing something exciting from a content perspective, although at the end of the day Medium is all about Medium...not empowering people to create their own websites under their own control.

P.S. WordPress also has a history (like Windows) of copying more innovative competitors. Many of the content tools now present in WordPress were, um, inspired by Tumblr or other more advanced CMSes. What major features has WordPress originated? I can't really think of any. The fact it's PHP and open source and flexible is its most innovative feature, but that has nothing to do with content and is simply a technical detail.

Re: Who Will Pick Up Where WordPress Left Off?

Jared White — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:31:10 -0000

WP is many things, but easy to use is certainly not one of them.

Re: 10 Popular Misconceptions Church People Hold About Church

Jared White — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:03:36 -0000

I think all of these ideas of what church is are incorrect. A home church can be just as stuffy and institutional as anything, for example.

Church, as defined by the Bible, isn't any of these things because what you're describing are formalized organizations of one sort or another. Church isn't an organization. Church is God's people covenanted together to worship God and "break bread" together. The end.

Meet at home? Great. Meet in a big building? Great. Meet at an office? Great. Meet in a parking lot at 3am? Great. Meet in an airplane en route to a foreign land? Great.

You don't need any of those things to be a church though. You don't need a home. You don't need a building. You don't need a pastor, or a "worship team" or a denomination or an apostolic superleader or any of that. All you need are these key ingredients:

1. Father.
2. Son.
3. Holy Spirit.
4. Humans. (a few or a lot, doesn't matter)
5. Faith.
6. Humility.
7. Love.

That's really about it. Do you need Bibles? No. Every Christian should have a Bible but you don't *have* to bring a Bible to meet for church. (We could all do with a little memorization!) Do you need wine/juice and bread for communion? Would be ideal, but it's not mandatory every single time.

Here's something everyone can, and should, bring, however: Testimony. Praise. Prophecy. Songs. Exhortations. Confessions. And not just a few folks on a stage. Everyone.

If this concept of Church should be labeled anything, it could be called "organic church" because it's fully alive, easy to reproduce, and adapts quickly to environmental pressures -- but really it's just church.

Folks, let's be careful not to clutter things up! A good example in nature of something infinitely complex and yet in a way extremely simple is: a diamond. We need a lot more "diamond" churches in the world.

Peace. -Jared

Re: Mackie’s new mixers and studio monitors

Jared White — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:46:14 -0000

I have a pair of HR824’s (original model) in my home studio. They're so good, it's sick. They have the kind of sound that makes a grown man weep for joy. If they were ever stolen or burned down or whatever, I would beg, borrow, or stop just shy of stealing to get a new pair. Can't recommend them highly enough. :)

Re: We are just getting started

Jared White — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:56:51 -0000

Awesome news - congrats!

Here's a vote for this news to result in an acceleration of a billing API so we can have a real 1-click, web-scale payments platform and squash PayPal dead. =)

Re: Rick Joyner Predicts Destruction of Republic, Third Great Awakening

Jared White — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:59:50 -0000

I have not been satisfied with statements from Rick on more than one occasion. This is another one. However, I don't know the man nor do I regularly follow his teachings, so I'll leave it there.

What I'd really like to write about is my agreement with your word, Jennifer, and my prophetic sense that there is indeed a major groundswell of movement going on with God's people here in America. It looks very different than past moves over the last decade:

(a) Revival is happening in individuals "high and low" - not being spearheaded by a few preachers or leaders at a podium.
(b) It's beginning to invade church settings unaccustomed to seeking the Lord for immediate supernatural breakthrough. (In that respect we might be seeing another wave of charismatic renewal like in the 70's)
(c) Answers to prayers of faith are coming in fast and powerfully -- just in the past few weeks people I know are seeing amazing things happen and it's becoming the "new normal" which is so exciting to me after years of feeling like we're in the wilderness!
(d) In a dream a few weeks ago, God spoke to me and said that revival is breaking out simultaneously across the nation so that no one place or ministry stands out above others -- and the only thing that can stop it is "sin in our midst" and particularly the hidden sins of church leaders. Friends, shepherds of the flock, fellow leaders: Check Yourselves! Remove any stain from your life and seek God's healing and restoration. You don't want to become the hinderance of the move of God in your midst!

Blessings from Northern California and a growing network of organic / house churches here,
Jared

Re: Rick Joyner Predicts Destruction of Republic, Third Great Awakening

Jared White — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:47:14 -0000

Thank you Jacquie for that wonderful testimony. Blessings on you and your church family!

Re: Strange Fire: Every biblical argument refuted – Part Two

Jared White — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:56:15 -0000

I don't see biblical justification for communicating God's word via an electronic device, therefore I guess it must be wrong.

Sorry, am I missing something in your question? People fall because their legs become weak under the physically-palpable weight of God's presence. I've had it happen to me many times. I don't think it's a fall forward vs. backward thing -- everyone is different. :)

Re: Help us choose a title!

Jared White — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:21:47 -0000

I like the third option. Easy to read, clear, direct.