<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Home on Jackson Steiner</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/</link><description>Recent content in Home on Jackson Steiner</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:47:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jacksonsteiner.net/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Where to Start</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/posts/where-to-start/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:47:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/posts/where-to-start/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I decided to create a personal website, and this is it. I&amp;rsquo;m not exactly sure what I want to put on here or write about yet, but I came to the realization I haven&amp;rsquo;t sat down and written my thoughts out proabably since I graduated college in the spring of 2021. I work in technology, so I&amp;rsquo;ve written documentation, emails, Teams/Slack messages, my resume, and whatever writing comes with working at a company, but those have been only paragraphs at most at a time rather than the long research essays I used to have to write. I miss those a bit, especially on topics I find interesting. I also think, as a result, my writing skills and grammatical correctness has declined, which I want to restrengthen. Those atrophies led me to lose confidence in my writing ability and made me put off writing this first post. But after a few days of being scared in my own writing abilities and putting them in front of the world to see, I realized two things. 1) This site is mine. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter how bad my writing is on it or what other people think of it. It&amp;rsquo;s my place to be me and express my ideas. 2) Writing more will only improve my writing at its current level, so I might as well just start now so my improvement starts now. This, I believe, is true about everything you want to improve. Of course you won&amp;rsquo;t be the best at something you don&amp;rsquo;t do regularly. And as I&amp;rsquo;m writing this I&amp;rsquo;m realizing that there is no end goal of being a &amp;ldquo;master writer&amp;rdquo; or master anything. The whole point of the process and doing the thing is the improvement and the journey of improving. I think this is where 99% of being a &amp;ldquo;master writer&amp;rdquo; is. Though this isn&amp;rsquo;t necessarily the reason I started this website. I started it to share what I&amp;rsquo;m working on, what I&amp;rsquo;ve learned from what I&amp;rsquo;m working on, thoughts on books I&amp;rsquo;ve read, useful bits of information I&amp;rsquo;ve read that I want to explore more, and learning topics that interest me and sharing what I&amp;rsquo;ve learned. Improving my writing will just be a nice side-effect. And as I wrap up this first post, another nice side-effect is that I just feel a lot better after writing down and sharing my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>About</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/about/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/about/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last updated: 2026-04-26&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m not exactly sure what to put here yet or what I want to use this page to say about myself. I have taken a some inspriation for what I want this site to be from &lt;a href="https://sive.rs/"&gt;Derek Sivers&amp;rsquo; website&lt;/a&gt;. He has an interesting point in his about page that one day his site will be all that&amp;rsquo;s left of him, so it&amp;rsquo;s his own autobiography. Maybe I&amp;rsquo;ll take this in the same direction. For now, this is it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meghan</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/posts/meghan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:02:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/posts/meghan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Meghan!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sending you all of my love&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jackson ❤️&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Antimatter Blues</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/antimatter-blues/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/antimatter-blues/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s a sci-fi book. If you&amp;rsquo;re into sci-fi, maybe you&amp;rsquo;ll like it. Mickey 17, the first book, was better, but the movie for Mickey 17 was a disaster.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dandelion Wine</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/dandelion-wine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/dandelion-wine/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A collection of short stories told over the course of a summer in 1929 of a boy&amp;rsquo;s adventures and beginning to move beyond boyhood.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Killers of the Flower Moon</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A great historical fiction told as a thiller. Told about a time period in the state of Oklahoma that I had no idea about. If you liked &lt;em&gt;The Devil in the White City&lt;/em&gt;, you&amp;rsquo;ll enjoy this. Plus, I personally don&amp;rsquo;t know what the big deal is, there&amp;rsquo;s Leonard DiCaprio on the cover for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Alienist</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/the-alienist/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/the-alienist/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;An epic histroical fiction thriller set in the late 1800s in New York City. It&amp;rsquo;s a long read but remains attention-grabbing throughout.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Good Soldier Švejk</title><link>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/the-good-soldier-svejk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jacksonsteiner.net/books/the-good-soldier-svejk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Most people who read this probably wouldn&amp;rsquo;t rate it this high, but I&amp;rsquo;m in the Army National Guard. I&amp;rsquo;ve never deployed, but I&amp;rsquo;ve been to the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Polk#Operations_Group"&gt;Joint Readiness Training Center&lt;/a&gt;(JRTC) in Louisiana. This is a dark comedy that reminds me of the chaos and non-sensical moments that happened during my time &amp;ldquo;in the box&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>