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  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Mundane Musical Moments Ranked

    I for one love Crazy Ex Girlfriend, the story where Rebecca Bunch moves to West Covina from big-law to pursue a romantic interest from summer camp when she was a teenager. This show is excellent… Read more

  • A Different Kind of Straussian-ism

    Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy, and widely known for his work on talking about eternal truths, and how the modern canon of philosophy was nihilistic and somewhat worthless. Students… Read more

  • Which dragon are you chasing?

    I was listening to a podcast earlier with Tim Ferriss and Neil Strauss, and it largely talked about writing. When you write, the only way you’re going to get things done is by getting started,… Read more

  • Virality and Building An Audience

    Eyeballs, while easy to attract, are hard to sustain. This is because everyone is competing for them, and as a result, it can be challenging to make sure people keep thinking about you, so you… Read more

  • Tell Great Stories

    People are hardwired to understand a lot of things through shared experiences. Sitting around a campfire, talking to each other about one’s day and life is a tale as old as time. I’ll cover the… Read more

  • Whoops I did it again

    Just as I have spent several years off of Facebook, and most of my life off of Snapchat, I decided I would go back to the dark side of the moon and avoid my remaining… Read more

  • How Can I Help?

    You get what you give. This idea seems to constantly pop up in self-improvement and sales contexts, in large part, because its right. Approaching things with an attitude of “what can I take?”, “what do… Read more

  • Your Objection is The Ad

    One of the great things about selling things is you know the product better than just about everyone else. In my experience helping a few small businesses develop their pitches, I’ve recognized that you can… Read more

  • Show Me The Result, I’ll Show You The Incentives

    A common thought of mine is that people inadvertently reward behavior they don’t like, in terms of how they participate in social behavior around them. Take car dealerships. Generally, you want to get a good… Read more

  • Lazy Daze

    We all have the days when nothing seems to be going right. In my case, it was getting rejected from working at a private equity firm and terrible weather. It’s been just about 2 months… 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.