Isadore Johnson’s Website

  • What can I help you with? I’m building a male friendship course and I want your feedback

    I recently learned that 53% of men are dissatisfied in their relationships with their friends and that 1/7 men have no close friends. This number is frightening to me, because a lack of friendships makes… Read more

  • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

    A lot of self-help advice is formulated as what to do to succeed. But, most success is based on avoiding attrition. People generally like those they’ve known for a while for no reason other than… Read more

  • Write Stuff Down!

    What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? Bettering yourself is the result of thousands of tiny choices. Those small choices need to be visible to you, to have sticking power. A choice… Read more

  • Debate Coach Delivers Harsh Truth

    Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. When I was younger, I believed that because I was a strong analytical thinker, I’d be unstoppable in debate and the rest… Read more

  • The Freedom To Be Disliked

    What does freedom mean to you? I remember viscerally when one person who I called a friend at the time told me how I had to think about his religion and belief system. I told… Read more

  • 🚨Public intellectual assessment time!🚨

    What public figure do you disagree with the most? I’m not naming names. When you try to determine which public figures are credible, it’s important to understand generally how they get to conclusions, how transparent… Read more

  • All Habits Start Small

    The idea that someone wakes up one day, and conquers the world, vanquishing anyone in his way is a delusion fed to us by Hollywood. It’s dramatic, high-stakes, and consistently not based in reality. Instead,… Read more

  • Misterwives, certainly better than sister wives.

    What was the last live performance you saw? The last musician I heard live was Misterwives, a poppy indie-rock band. This was a magical performance and the energy was impeccable. The new album they have… Read more

  • Suspicious of Kaldor-Hicks as Optimality Conditions

    Wikipedia explains that the Kaldor-Hicks improvement criteria is essentially a less stringent version of a Pareto improvement, something where in practice, everyone is made better off. In the Kaldor-Hicks view, merely the ability of the… Read more

  • Self-Actualizing My Interests

    What do you do to be involved in the community? One barrier that many people find to making friends is that they don’t prioritize doing things they enjoy. Typically, friendship revolving around a shared interest,… Read more

Welcome to my blog!

I’m Isadore. I love critical thinking, rationalism, contradiction, vitriol, ad-hominem, philosophy and all those other things that the kids are into nowadays. I hate sloppy thinking, those who love the Oxford Comma, and humorlessness

Find more about me here.

If you want to hire me to help you navigate PR disasters, or create one, please email me at 1isadorejohnson4me@gmail.com.