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Having Fun in The Sun!

I love going out and meeting new people! It’s so much fun to attend events, and tap until the end of time. Here’s what I notice about it. You need to have a base belief that going will be fun that only works if you do it somewhat regularly. Make sure to notice the positiveContinue reading “Having Fun in The Sun!”

Expressive Gratitude + Relationship Building

How do you express your gratitude? One tip a colleague gave me when I was early in college was to aggressively send thank you notes when anything important is done. This reinforces behavior and helps people justify what they’ve done. This is the same reason why car salespeople are most effective when they remind peopleContinue reading “Expressive Gratitude + Relationship Building”

private association

There’s a lot of talk about how public goods don’t exist enough of the time because they’re non-excludable, meaning that people are able to free-load. This theoretical problem with capitalism falls apart when one realizes that private association can remedy this error. If a club offers goods to its members, they can make sure thatContinue reading “private association”

The Comedian-Commentator 2 Step

Comedians do this thing that makes me absolutely mad. They step into serious political commentary, talk about how unfair and unjust the world is, condemn other commentators for lacking their moral clarity, and get a reputation for telling it like it is. At the same time, whenever they face a hard problem, they shift backContinue reading “The Comedian-Commentator 2 Step”

Also, FYI Chevron is Dead

I saw this post on TikTok, and while I think the person explaining this is wholeheartedly wrong about deference to the experts and political economy (which I’ll get into), this is a good primer. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNjPf5tp/ Basically, the original Chevron decision set up a legal standard called the rational basis, which essentially says that if there’sContinue reading “Also, FYI Chevron is Dead”

A General Equilibrium Theory About Consulting

The big three management consulting organizations tend to consistently stick around despite costing exorbitant sums of money, and arguably primarily creating spreadsheets to tell people things they already know. There’s several competing explanations for why this seems to be the case, and I want to take a bit of time to assess them. The mostContinue reading “A General Equilibrium Theory About Consulting”

Production Hacking

What are your daily habits? Every day, I try and complete a set of tasks that will eventually make me strong. First, I try and make sure I walk several miles. This is good for fortitude and mindfulness. I also try and drink a gallon of water, some caffeine, and relevant supplementation. I’m also reallyContinue reading “Production Hacking”

Breading The Get

Are you really on the grind for the bread? Is the reason you do things for the outcome, or the journey? You will die. You will be forgotten. Even the cruelest are forgotten, Ozymandias’s visage is buried in a desert. Life is the journey, but the question of what to spend a life doing isContinue reading “Breading The Get”

Games of Gross Hypotheticals

My sister and I have a favorite game we play whenever we spend more than 15-20 minutes with each other and it goes like this. I find this endlessly entertaining and I think others might as well. Take a gross would you rather that has the potential to be uncomfortable, make the gross option theContinue reading “Games of Gross Hypotheticals”

Absolution In The Eyes of Self

There’s a lot of talk about absolution in the eyes of God. This seems silly to me, why bother wait for glory in the eyes of another, when you can have glory for yourself? Why prostrate yourself when you are the arbiter of your destiny? I think a lot of problems come from not acceptingContinue reading “Absolution In The Eyes of Self”