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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 specialization. I also ran more than two miles, awoke at 6:45, prepped for an interview, cleaned my house, and cookedContinue reading “Productive Days”

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 the needle, I fail to understand why people couldn’t employ payment as a tool of persuasion. Part of expressive rightsContinue reading “People should be able to sell their votes”

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 data analytics does the job. The problem with these credentials is they rely on the judgment of the people evaluatingContinue reading “Completing the Code”

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 time preference, therefore things that require little effort are competed for intensely, whereas things that require time to blossom areContinue reading “Relentlessness”

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 of curls, 3 sets of arm raises, 3 sets of squats, and went in the sauna for 10 minutes. IContinue reading “Pushing Myself Physically”

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 bound to be controversial and require a thick skin, and a willingness to look at the situation critically. Some topicsContinue reading “Gordian Knots and Localism”

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 our climate is fine so there’s no reason for exorbitant spending on jobs programs for literature graduates who somehow haveContinue reading “Missing the point of affordable housing”

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 of the situation around her. She’s sharp, edgy. She’s persuasive, having convinced 9 people to convert already. Her partner inContinue reading “Heretic was excellent (synopsis + review)”