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  • Proposed Outline for Men Need Friends Book:

    Introduction: Encouragement and onboarding. This section aims to connect the dots between buying the book and approaching the content. This introduction aims to explain to the reader that the journey towards friendship is one that’ll… Read more

  • Medical Rights and Medical Wrongs

    Recently, I saw a news article that talked about how a scientist testing a treatment on themselves violated bioethical standards. Generally, bioethics, regardless of the party in power, tend to be poorly thought out ethical… Read more

  • Medical Rights and Medical Wrongs

    Recently, I saw a news article that talked about how a scientist testing a treatment on themselves violated bioethical standards. Generally, bioethics, regardless of the party in power, tend to be poorly thought out ethical… Read more

  • High Agency Behavior

    High agency behavior is acting in a way that allows you to broadly achieve your goals and be influential. It’s relentless, strategic, and focused. In order to become highly able, you should start by creating… Read more

  • The Progressive Overloader’s Toolkit

    When you’re looking to increase your physical fitness, you should see duration, intensity, and novelty as the main tools in your kit to improve performance from the gym. External factors like sleep, nutrition, hydration are… Read more

  • A Thousand Mile Journey

    A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. This sentiment gets to the heart of self-improvement because you have to start somewhere in order to forge your path. I like this metaphor… Read more

  • What are the Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias’s of the world?

    Two columnists I regularly follow who put out high quality content on the regular that are left of center are Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein. Both of them previously founded Vox Media and pioneered an… Read more

  • Rest and Relaxation

    Each week, I try to take an entire day off to do things fun for myself. Today, my sister and I went to NYC to check out the 9/11 memorial, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge,… Read more

  • The Nootropic Power Fantasy

    The television show Limitless tells the story of a schlubby guy in his mid-thirties who has generally been failing at life. He’s not engaged, his father is sick of a terminal illness, and he’s working… Read more

  • Why is Tyler Cowen so interesting?

    Tyler Cowen, probably GMU’s most famous alumni and professor (outside the law school) has consistently been ahead of the broader intellectual ecosystem, and has been writing Marginal Revolution since before I was born. He’s done… 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.