You’re unique. Just like everyone else.

Update 06/16/2020: Sam Harris recorded his thoughts on this issue shortly after I posted mine. We agree on most everything, but he said it with much more detail, tact, and eloquence. You can listen here: https://samharris.org/podcasts/207-can-pull-back-brink/Let me begin with a statement of belief to make sure that I am not taken the wrong way: Law...

Binge listen to the rest of Season 1 now!

Hello, climate change aficionados! I didn't get around to publicizing the release of the last few episodes of the podcast, so lucky you get to binge listen to the last three episodes! We have two interviews, one with my first climate change skeptic guest and the other with a real live climate scientist! The last...

Interview with Grant Couch

Hey all! I'm now making a concerted effort to spread the podcast. If you enjoy it, please share links! If I can garner a legitimate audience, I might be able to start bringing in some bigger names. However, I've already gotten lucky enough to have a former Wall Street executive, so that's pretty big! The...

Turn the firehose around

We may not be able to turn off the firehose, so why don't we just stop trying to drink from it? Last week, I linked to a conversation between Sam Harris and Tristan Harris (no relation) about the potentially trillion-dollar industry of how to get you to be less productive, more distracted, and generally miserable....

The Politics of Fact

Tonight, President Barack Obama gave his seventh and final state of the union address to a joint session of Congress. Though he promised to keep it short, it still stretched on for an hour (he has a habit of being verbose). Like all politicians, he has made some promises he couldn't keep. Despite these shortfalls,...