At this point, you’ve built up the ability to build individual relationships, and now you’re looking to find more alignment about the things that matter to your soul. Finding a community that encourages and facilitates you in doing the things you love is essential to growing into shoes bigger than you thought possible to fill.Continue reading “Finding a Community That Works For You”
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SohoForum Retrospective: Why I think David Leonhardt is Half-Right on America’s Trend-Line and Why It Matters
On Monday, I saw a debate between John Early and David Leonhardt. I personally think from the discussion that Leonhardt had the upper hand, and would have liked to explore deeper ramifications of each side’s perspective. From my understanding, Leonhardt argued that a wide variety of sources show that economic growth for lower class AmericansContinue reading “SohoForum Retrospective: Why I think David Leonhardt is Half-Right on America’s Trend-Line and Why It Matters”
Picking a fight with Hunter Walk on former-google-worker-supremacy
This was written ten years ago, but republished today. It’s a little dated, so I’m not going to argue whether Google is especially transformative today. Instead, I want to challenge a bit of the argumentation that those who work at high leverage companies are especially equipped to execute excellently. His argument is that working atContinue reading “Picking a fight with Hunter Walk on former-google-worker-supremacy”
What should a president be?
One idea that I discussed in a club that I’m a part of is whether presidents are too powerful, or too weak. I think this can be a bit of a challenge since presidential power can be a bit amorphous, and talking through it, it seems like there’s a couple distinct issues in play. OneContinue reading “What should a president be?”
Applying Economic Analysis to Common Law
Economic analysis of law looks at how law as an institution shapes the incentives of individuals and firms, looks at how risk is allocated, and how resources are segregated. The figure most associated in law and economics, or economic analysis of the law is Richard Posner who’s general contribution was that common law is andContinue reading “Applying Economic Analysis to Common Law”
Bioethics: What’s An Ethical Institutional Response to Patient Requests For Clinicians Of A Specific Race?
Public health ethics manages respect for patient autonomy with discrimination free environments. Unfortunately, situations arise which make it challenging to emphasize both. One example is when a patient requests a clinician of a specific race. This forces a choice of commitment between spaces free of discrimination and patient autonomy. The proper ethical response to thisContinue reading “Bioethics: What’s An Ethical Institutional Response to Patient Requests For Clinicians Of A Specific Race?”
That time I debated Vaush and what I learned
A while back, when I was more involved in libertarian politics, I was attending conventions left and right, and frankly wasn’t in my best state emotionally. Without going into too much detail on that, there was one convention that I helped volunteer for in Nashville, and it was fancy. The reception was at a somewhatContinue reading “That time I debated Vaush and what I learned”
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