Author: Jo
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On sharpening up your articulated beliefs
Hey guys! There are a few tricks you can do to sharpen up your articulated beliefs, or at the very least to minimize misunderstandings by your audience, and I thought I’d share a few of them here. One of them is to express what you’re not saying, e.g., “I don’t happen to believe that the…
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Hey, where did that blog post go?
Hey guys! Thought I’d write a little something as two of the blog posts that I have published this year have been unpublished. The first one was about the parallels I saw between the Avengers movie series and various mythological stories, and what these patterns ultimately meant for the truths encoded in those stories. I…
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My podcast is live on YouTube!
Hey guys! I’ve got pretty exciting news to share with you! As of today, you can listen to my podcast on YouTube here. The first episode can be found here, whereas the second episode (e.g., my conversation with Karina Alce) can be found here. It took me a lot longer than I expected to have…
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Project Euler’s first problem
Hi everyone! This if my first post on my Project Euler series. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, Project Euler is a series of mathematical challenges that are meant to be solved using computer programming. Given my interests in both of those fields, it only seemed natural that I would start writing about…
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I’m officially a podcast host… now what?
Hey everyone! I suppose this is more of a personal post than the other ones I have written thus far. I have had an exceptionally busy month of April. In addition to working forty hours a week, I try to maintain a rich social life, which includes spending adequate time (adequate both in quality and…
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Episode 2: Karina Alce
Hi everyone! Very excited to finally be able to post this. You can listen to the conversation I had with a good friend of mine, Karina Alce (both of us pictured below), here. We recorded this episode on March 11th, 2022. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, she and I discussed the COVID-19…
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Podcast launch
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the date that my podcast is officially released falls on a 23rd. Robert Anton Wilson noticed that the number “23” was at the center of endless synchronicities and thus declared that it was part of the cosmic code. I have actually witnessed first-hand the number’s remarkable synchronistic characteristics:…
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Happy New Year!
Hello readers! I thought I’d write a little something for the beginning of the year. Apologies for not updating my blog in a while; I came down with a fever over the holidays, and I’ve been busy with various projects (and work) since getting back on my feet. As you can see, I recently updated…
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How to deal with intellectually dishonest people
John Stuart Mill once said, “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as…
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What is steelmanning?
Aristotle once said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” To me, this is what intellectual honesty primarily consists of. Too often, people get stuck in their own beliefs and are totally incapable of even articulating an opponent’s point of view. Of course, this…
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