Isadore Johnson’s Website

  • Productive Days

    Days when you work hard starting from the second you wake up are built different. Today I finished a submission of two separate masters degree assignments and started on the next two classes in my… Read more

  • Masters Degree in One Semester?

    Status Update: Orientation and class 1 are complete. Class 2 is complete, assuming no major edits. Class 3 is in progress. I plan to start class 4 and 5 tomorrow. There are a total of… Read more

  • People should be able to sell their votes

    I happen to think voting is generally a waste of time. I’m unlikely to move the needle on any major issues, especially since I’m not in a swing state. However, even if I could move… Read more

  • Completing the Code

    For better or worse, most people shortcut evaluating people’s competence by instead looking to external signals. Instead of asking directly whether this person can code, one can safely assume that getting a master’s degree in… Read more

  • Relentlessness

    Many people want wealth, money, and health, but these things are challenging to achieve. In a sense, everything that people want comes with some level of challenge to get there. Most people have a high… Read more

  • Pushing Myself Physically

    Today after I got a breakfast burrito with my girlfriend, in sweatpants, I proceeded to run 5 miles at a 6 mph pace. Then, I moved upstairs, did 4 sets of incline press, 3 sets… Read more

  • Gordian Knots and Localism

    There’s plenty of challenging tradeoffs that need to be made. Whether to prioritize efficiency or equality, whether to do reparations, determining who should get amnesty, welfare, etc. These decisions in the best of times are… Read more

  • Do the numbers strike back?

    In Liberalism Against Populism, and much public choice literature, it can be hard to escape the conclusion that the only thing we can predict is that things change in ways we can’t. The question than… Read more

  • Missing the point of affordable housing

    The neighborhood is bustling with luxury housing that millennials are moving into. Disorder is minimal, people are having kids and starting families. Starbucks is charging an entire 3 dollars extra for Almond Milk. Oh, and… Read more

  • Heretic was excellent (synopsis + review)

    The scene opens on a park bench, condom advertisement behind the two main characters as we get a sense of their personalities. Sister Thatcher is dark femme coded. She strikes us as distrusting and aware… 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.