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  • Doug Campbell Interview Transcript

    The video can be watched here. Here’s my interview with Doug Campbell, winner of the SSC forecasting competition! Isadore: Hi Doug. It’s nice to meet you. I wanted to put you on my show originally.… Read more

  • Understanding Tony Robbin’s Unshakeable (what I took from it)

    I spent the last couple nights before bed reading Tony Robbin’s Unshakeable, his financial freedom playbook. Here’s what I got out of it. Tony Robbins does this thing where his work is light on facts,… Read more

  • What Methinks about the McKinsey Mind (notes from a reading)

    I just finished the McKinsey Mind. Overall, I think it was well-written with a smattering of humor. There were a couple unintuitive parts surrounding how to approach difficult clients, but you’re never going to get… Read more

  • Beginning an interview series

    I very much enjoy blogging. Frankly, if I don’t have anyone follow me for the rest of this year, while I’m continuing this challenge, I don’t think I would mind at all. Something that’s a… Read more

  • The Juicy Important Info (Notes I took from reading) In The Reluctant Entrepreneur

    I’m starting to look into creating my own business. To that end, I’m going to learn exactly what steps need to be done by reading a variety of books on the subject. Underneath will be… Read more

  • What is something you think is true that other people don’t, and why?

    When I was going through school, despite being in accelerated programs, I think the curriculum was far too slow, laborious, and repetitive. Instead of the telos being valuable skills, or ‘how to think’, school often… Read more

  • The anti-craftsman perspective

    My most recent blog post, I wrote a short argument for why I was in favor of seeing craftsmanship integrate with one’s life. I believe that to be true, deeply in my heart. However, like… Read more

  • Is daily work necessary?

    I hear an argument that goes something like “Generally you get can 80% of the results for 20% of the effort. Thus, there’s little reason to do something every day, if it’s not really going… Read more

  • My gripe with formerly gifted kids

    I see a lot of people talk about how they used to be gifted, and then squandered their potential into mediocrity. Apparently, gifted adults tend to make . From there, they pretty much approach the… Read more

  • On The Move

    Today, I made a 15 hour drive back to my hometown to begin the next chapter of my existence. I like to think of my existence as a series of long form sketches. The producers… 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.