Isadore Johnson’s Website

  • Replacing Social Batteries: On Office Work

    I work remotely, so if I don’t want to see anyone for a week at a time, that’s a pretty attainable goal. Generally speaking, this means if I found social contact in some senses uncomfortable… Read more

  • I’m probably a much better writer than you, that’s unlikely to change.

    In many ways, it appears that the age of the dilettante is upon us. This creative cataclysm, inspired by the death of old-guard gatekeepers seems inevitable. Music labels, agents, newspapers, and even movie studios are… Read more

  • Hate Mail Advertising

    When I want to get something from someone on the internet, particularly traffic on my teeny-tiny blog, I like to do what I’ve coined ‘hate mail advertising’ which is premised on the simple psychological fact… Read more

  • Stubbornness

    What’s the trait you value most about yourself? Being pliable has its advantages, it’s easier to fit in. Life is generally straightforward if you’re going with the flow. You get to avoid thinking a lot… Read more

  • Brag

    You will be both your biggest critic and your biggest fan. This is because you, like everyone else, are a human being, and human beings are selfish. It’s not inherently bad that people are selfish,… Read more

  • Thinking Through My Career Strategy Over Writing

    I think about Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers all the time, where he talks about just how significant tons of practice is. The amount of time writers put into creating content, refining it, revising it, figuring… Read more

  • Passive Aggressive Email Etiquette

    We all know passive-aggressive emails are mistakes. After all, you tend to work with people on a repeated basis and poisoning the well in general is a bad idea. but, sometimes it can be all… Read more

  • Protected: Non-Believers Until Lying Eyes Prove Otherwise

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  • When Should You Trust But Verify?

    The project manager serves as an interface between the project team and stakeholders. Being given this task, one should recognize that you’re probably not going to be able to look at each individual data point… Read more

  • Are you the ‘brilliant jerk?’

    Reid Hoffman published a piece a while back describing two types of challenging employees: the brilliant jerk and the lovable idiot. Both of these archetypes are difficult to work with, harder when you are one… 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 implement a large scale IT transformation, help with a PR nightmare, or generally improve your public speaking skills, reach out to me directly at 1isadorejohnson4me@gmail.com.