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  • Camping: The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

    I try to go camping at least a few times each summer. Something about the placid nature of heavily wooded areas stirs up something in my bones that keeps me going back. I used to… Read more

  • The best kind of p-hacking…

    When do you feel most productive? For the tongue in cheek title, I apologize. Generally, data fraud isn’t particularly helpful at allowing insights to be built. I feel most productive on days when there’s something… Read more

  • 🛎️🛎️🛎️ The time ⏰ for emojis 🤪 is now! â¬†ď¸Źâ„˘ď¸Ź

    What are your favorite emojis? Surprisingly, I don’t actually enjoy Emojis too much, because I prefer to use plain text most of the time. I’ve noticed that emojis aren’t often used in copy, and I… Read more

  • Asymmetric Opportunities and Perils

    Most of the time, the commonest types of situations we encounter are those that are symmetric: You win/You lose, about an even amount. The most lucrative situations are ones where you’re able to claim more… Read more

  • Risking it, Where’s The Biscuit?

    When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? I made a big decision a few months ago that the Midwest was not going to be the best place to… Read more

  • The Gervais Principle, SSC Response, Isadore Rejoins

    Venkatesh Rao wrote a very provocative set of essays called the Gervais Principle. Armed with a PHD in control systems, Rao analyzes the Office through a theoretical framework where society is split into 3 types… Read more

  • Slicing and Dicing Writer’s Block

    Even the best of us have it. When you’re creating a work of writing, you often reach points where you’re unable to continue the flow of your original thought. Does this mean that your writing… Read more

  • Is AI coming for our blogs?

    One question that seems to be on the mind of creatives everywhere is the coming AI revolution, and whether it’ll remove all our productive capabilities, preventing us from reaching employment? I certainly don’t think so.… Read more

  • Ran My First 5 K!

    I had signed up for a 5K several days ago because after moving, I haven’t really had many opportunities to meet people and make new friends. I thought that finding a set of events to… Read more

  • Journalistic Ethics in Civil War

    I just watched the new Alex Garland movie, and found it quite engaging, but also disturbing. One element that I found especially interesting was how it treated journalism, particularly photo-journalism as a profession. One major… 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.