Stephen Smith:
CLASS OF 1975
Columbia High SchoolClass of 1975
Decatur, GA
San Jose State University - MathematicsClass of 1988
San jose, CA
Stephen's Story
The Last Ten Years:
In September 2000 I noticed a new way of looking at human behavior from a book I was reading. Soon I was mapping the concepts from many different world views into what became known as the Psyche States Model. In 2001 I separated from my first wife. In 2002 the divorce was finalized. In 2006 I remarried. After much reading, thinking, writing, rereading, rethinking, rewriting, and discussions with friends, along with lots of editing from my new wife, in December 2010 I released a 180 page book called A Liberated State of Being through the self-publishing arm of Amazon.com. Several months later I released a 400 page book called Your Psyche States (which contains most of the smaller book).
First 30 years:
Born in Utah, moved to Georgia at age 9. Attended Snapfinger Elementary and Columbia High, where I was known for my interest in music, science, girls, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since high school, served an LDS mission in Los Angeles, attended BYU where I met my first wife and studied piano technology, graduated from San Jose State University in Math and Computer Science. I have two children, now grown, a boy and a girl.
Religion...Expand for more
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Active LDS (Mormon) during for most of my life, though have entertained other options at various times in my life. I seriously considered nihilistic agnosticism for several years and still find it a useful way of thinking for checking the consistency of my thoughts. Having come full circle, I am now confident in what I know and believe.
Work:
Have worked with information systems at a drug company, a well-known department of defense contractor, a networking pioneer, a dot bomb, an info security company, an Internet TV innovator, and analog to digital conversion of historical and genealogical records. Worked a lot of hours.
Philosophy and Politics:
I tend toward empiricism (favoring demonstrable science to speculative theory) and libertarianism (reading Reason magazine every month), but there are limits to both.
My Prime Directive (what my first wife taught me):
The extent to which you are deciding is the extent to which should be paying. The extent to which I am paying is the extent to which I should be deciding. (and there are more ways to pay besides monetarily, such as time)
Or to keep it short, If you decide then you pay. If I pay then I decide.
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