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Lessons I’ve learned from business
I’ve been in business for a while now, I’ve had over a hundred employees (I lost count eventually), and although I’m not the best boss ever, I have learned a few things about being a manager. First, most of the actual work that makes an organization productive is done by a small minority of the…
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On individualism
It is the instinct of our time to “make something ours”, to make it your own, to particularize things to yourself. We do not seek to belong to something greater than ourselves. Our love of the individual means there is nothing greater, and we make them worthwhile by bringing them into us, not us into…
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The blind spots of all societies
It is in the nature of every civilization to be blinded by two things. First the “things that everybody knows”, the basic, fairly unchallenged assumptions that drive people’s view of the world. The “first principles” of the science of life that are themselves axiomatic (as Aristotle pointed out). The second is the confidence and self…
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Why the Bible uses stories instead of lectures
One challenge the writers of the Bible faced was the fact that there were no books. Written records were rare and took a lot of effort to produce, and there were a lot of different people in different places and situations the message needed to be able to reach. So the question is, how do…
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Random Tangent on History
(excerpted from an older entry) It’s an interesting fact that our political parties seem to have organized themselves broadly based on personality. I have a theory for why this may have happened. Partly it may just be an inevitable consequence of having enough people, and, since personality variation is a huge natural element of human…
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The manifesto of the new age
Speech is violence Outcomes are causes Denial is guilt Censorship is inclusion Power is truth Violence is peaceful Vulnerability is power Strength is safety Freedom is uniformity of results Property is theft Dialogue is supression Knowledge is slavery Everyone is the same But differences are supreme Who you love is innate to who you are…
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Why Systemic Racism?
I get now why they were calling it institution racism and systemic racism. They had to call it that to develop the argument that would allow them to enact their own institutional and systemic racism as a coubter-balance. Ironically, their accomplished this by shifting the meaning of institutional and systemic (formalized), for situations where this…
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The New Oscar Standards
I just read the new diversity and inclusion standards for Oscar eligibility, and it was one of the most shocking things I’ve ever read. Obviously the Oscar’s were always heavily prejudiced toward certain things, but formalizing it is a whole other step. Making prejudice institutional is a new level. Artistic merit should never be held…
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Reflections on my thesis
If I didn’t already say this somewhere, it wasn’t my intention to argue in my these that we should have state sponsored censorship. I mean, to a degree we already do. We gave censorship of behavior, you can’t do anything anywhere, and especially when it comes to kids we engage in some censorship. It’s not…
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The modernist confusion about postmodernism
One refrain that seems to come up often lately among the remaining modernists in academia is, how could this have happened? Viewing (accurately) the collapse of the ideas of truth and evidence and the descent into a postmodern ecosystem of manipulation and tribalism, they wonder where it all went wrong. Having previously spent their days…
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