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  • Median Vs Marginal Voter Theorem

    A lot is theorized about how social preferences turn into policy. What translates an issue to a politician has to be somewhat abstract, after all, politicians are a mishmash of various beliefs and policy statements.… Read more

  • Some Informal Heroscape Balance Ideas

    I’ve been playing Heroscape for the past few months, and a couple of cards/units are overwhelmingly under or overpowered, decreasing the viability of a diverse set of play-styles. I wanted to compile what I think… Read more

  • My Crusade Against My Girlfriend’s Cat Part 1

    My girlfriend and her cat are currently living with me, because we’re overlapping the lease before I move out of the Midwest, so she can have cheaper rent, and I can fill a vacancy. Unfortunately,… Read more

  • A definitive ranking of all of Carly Rae Jepsen’s music

    I am in the top 0.01% of Carly Rae Jepsen’s listeners. As a self-appointed professional, I wanted to briefly rank her Spotify music so that fans can find music that they’ll like by her. SS… Read more

  • Short Truths of A Bunch Of Ideologies

    Ideology is a way of explaining the world through a particular lens. Most lenses overgeneralize one of their key insights, and that’s used to both spread and also discredit their general ideas. In principle, ideologies… Read more

  • A (not so) Brief Review of Madison, Wisconsin

    Over the last year and a half, I’ve lived in Madison in a couple different places ranging from the East side to downtown. As someone originally from the Northeast, I wanted to provide a retrospective… Read more

  • Apologizing is Difficult: Some Lessons I’ve Learned

    This week, I had a bit of a communications kerfuffle where I didn’t clearly communicate to my roommates my plan for moving. By failing to communicate clearly, I frustrated them and led to a situation… Read more

  • Some Tips to Improve Extemp Debate

    I used to be successful at competitive parliamentary debate, winning the Dartmouth debate camp (parliamentary), and going undefeated at the New Haven Urban Debate league. I faced a lot of losses as well, and don’t… Read more

  • Why do people pretend to be minimalists?

    I’ve heard many people with maximalist approaches towards owning things describe themselves as minimalists. Keeping up with the Jones’ is out of vogue, what’s in is appearing satisfied, Feng-shui and Buddhism. Despite the protestations of… Read more

  • I asked AI to improve my essay on AI 7 times. Here’s what I learned about GPT in the process

    Recently, the fear of AI taking writing and other creative jobs has emerged bigger and badder than ever before. The worry that a smooth talking studio head will wheel-and-deal with a virtual Sam Altman, and… 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

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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.