Isadore Johnson’s Website

  • A Shove In The Right Direction

    People may forget what you’ve done, or what you’ve said to them. They tend not to forget how you make them feel. Knowing this, it’s important to make strong and positive impressions on other people.… Read more

  • Places, People, and Personhood

    It’s been said many a time that you are the people you spend the most time with. Despite this, many people rebel from the people they’ve grown around. The recipe for person-hood must be more… Read more

  • Tactical Empathy

    If you don’t know where those oppose you are coming from, you do yourself a disservice. This is why it’s infuriating to see people talk past each other, it doesn’t work. In Getting To Yes,… Read more

  • Following Leadership, Leading Followership

    Are you a leader or a follower? The dichotomy between a leader and follower is overblown. To reach greatness, it’s important to embrace both of these roles, and to know when to use both of… 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

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.