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  • Really enjoying the show Hacks

    As an aspiring standup comedian, I often think about what it would be like to be incredibly successful. If I started to sell out stadiums, joke in front of large crowds, or write something truly… Read more

  • Aspire to heights you can’t reach

    As someone who’s gotten to be very good at things, I’ve noticed that at the peak of performance comes a plateau of despair as you don’t know what to do next. When you feel like… Read more

  • Social Entrepreneurship! Why it beats the alternatives

    What are you passionate about? There’s this pervasive idea that when people get together as a government, problems get solved, and the world generally becomes a better place. The combination of incompetence, graft, and bureaucracy… Read more

  • Summer, the pinnacle of the year

    What is your favorite season of year? Why? Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men. The concept of a cycle being an… Read more

  • The ability to speak my mind

    What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? I have a biting wit, and something I struggled with at a previous job was that I notice both people’s strengths and their weaknesses. I’ve learned from… Read more

  • Make people feel celebrated!

    Taking the effort to let people know that special moments exist for them, and ritualizing it pays dividends. You both build strong relationships with others while choosing to commemorate and have fun! Here’s how you… Read more

  • Down bad for fulfillment

    What are the most important things needed to live a good life? Knowing that I’m pushing myself to my limit is an incredibly motivating thought. I think everyone aspires for greatness, and having your efforts… Read more

  • She’s my bestie… she’s a real bad….

    Who do you spend the most time with? I spend a lot of time in parallel with my mother. I recently moved back home, and I spend a lot of time hanging out with her.… Read more

  • Finding Purpose in Work

    If you feel in your heart that what you’re doing is useless, every moment you spend doing the tasks will feel like pulling teeth. The cavity keeps getting worse as goo accumulates, emotional baggage spews… Read more

  • Punching Down

    There’s been a lot of moralizing about the purpose of comedy, and whether it should attain purposes other than making people laugh. Some say it’s important to be able to change the world around you… 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.