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  • Having Fun in The Sun!

    I love going out and meeting new people! It’s so much fun to attend events, and tap until the end of time. Here’s what I notice about it. You need to have a base belief… Read more

  • Expressive Gratitude + Relationship Building

    How do you express your gratitude? One tip a colleague gave me when I was early in college was to aggressively send thank you notes when anything important is done. This reinforces behavior and helps… Read more

  • private association

    There’s a lot of talk about how public goods don’t exist enough of the time because they’re non-excludable, meaning that people are able to free-load. This theoretical problem with capitalism falls apart when one realizes… Read more

  • The Comedian-Commentator 2 Step

    Comedians do this thing that makes me absolutely mad. They step into serious political commentary, talk about how unfair and unjust the world is, condemn other commentators for lacking their moral clarity, and get a… Read more

  • Also, FYI Chevron is Dead

    I saw this post on TikTok, and while I think the person explaining this is wholeheartedly wrong about deference to the experts and political economy (which I’ll get into), this is a good primer. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNjPf5tp/… Read more

  • A General Equilibrium Theory About Consulting

    The big three management consulting organizations tend to consistently stick around despite costing exorbitant sums of money, and arguably primarily creating spreadsheets to tell people things they already know. There’s several competing explanations for why… Read more

  • Production Hacking

    What are your daily habits? Every day, I try and complete a set of tasks that will eventually make me strong. First, I try and make sure I walk several miles. This is good for… Read more

  • Breading The Get

    Are you really on the grind for the bread? Is the reason you do things for the outcome, or the journey? You will die. You will be forgotten. Even the cruelest are forgotten, Ozymandias’s visage… Read more

  • Games of Gross Hypotheticals

    My sister and I have a favorite game we play whenever we spend more than 15-20 minutes with each other and it goes like this. I find this endlessly entertaining and I think others might… Read more

  • Absolution In The Eyes of Self

    There’s a lot of talk about absolution in the eyes of God. This seems silly to me, why bother wait for glory in the eyes of another, when you can have glory for yourself? Why… 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.