Welcome to my peculiar blog!

Hello everyone, welcome to my peculiar blog! I started this project in 2021 as a way to write about philosophy and various other topics I am interested in. I also launched a podcast in 2022, Truth-Seeking With Jo, with which I am hoping to use to show people how to have productive conversations and to talk about ideas I am interested in. Hope you’ll enjoy!

Latest from the Blog

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Earlier this year, I went to a friend’s housewarming party, for which I baked a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever baked this much in a single day my whole life! I made two batches of my ginger cookies (see link here for the recipe), one batch of chocolate chip cookies, and one banana bread.…

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What does it mean to live a good life?

Hey everyone, To kick off the year with a bang, I thought I’d write a post about the question that is undeniably at the core of moral philosophy: what does it mean to live a good life? This is a question that moral philosophers have been asking each other for millennia, perhaps going all the…

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If the facts are just there, what does the brain do?

Hi everyone! In this blog post, I’ll articulate why I believe Sam Harris’ strongest argument dealing with the is-ought problem ultimately fails. One of the reasons I think Sam Harris is so popular is specifically because of how strong his arguments tend to be and how clear his thinking is. That being said, as correct…

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Episode 4: Casey

St. Augustine once said, “All truth is God’s truth.” Hey everyone! Very excited to finally publish this. On August 4, 2023, I recorded a conversation with my friend Casey on my podcast. Casey is a Christian who happens to disagree with a lot of the things that I believe in (and yes, the feeling is…

What the hell have I been up to?

Hey everyone! Hope everyone is having a fun summer. Apologies for not writing more often. In addition to experiencing major changes to my personal life, including a new job for the thing I actually studied for in school (!), I had been preparing for a podcast episode with one of my good friends. Before saying…

Episode 3: Amezerion

Hello readers! I’m very excited to finally share what I have been working on for the past few months with all of you! On March 10th, 2023, I had my good friend Amezerion over to my apartment to record my second conversation for my podcast. He used to be my game master back when I…

On divinity and awareness

Hey guys! Hope everyone’s new year is going well. Okay, so I promised something special for this month… I’m actually hoping to kick off each year with a special blog post, so I’m pretty excited about that. In any case, I had two ideas for this month’s blog post. One of the two was more…

On the deadly simplicity of Ben Shapiro’s arguments

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying (or have enjoyed) their holidays. I was hoping to have this blog post published last month, but unfortunately, I had less time than I expected last week. Apologies for this! As hard as I try to publish at least one post every month, I don’t want…

Gluten-Free Ginger Cookies Recipe

Hey everyone! Today, I thought I’d write a post that is slightly different than what I usually write. As much as I love writing about philosophy, this is a post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while, and part of me suspects this one will be well-received, especially with the holidays being so…

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…

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…

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…

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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