This is the first installment of my intellectual commitments series. It’s a doozy …
I am a hard determinist. I believe that everything that has ever happened happened because it had to and that everything that will happen in the future must happen the way that it will. Being a hard determinist means [...]

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You can learn a lot about an individual if you can listen to more than what is being said. Blogs are a great example of this. They are chalked full of hidden hints and subtle signs of an individuals deeper thoughts and core beliefs. Most people don’t really talk about these things [...]

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I personally think that work is a very good thing. When I really think about it, it just seems like humanity is designed to be productive. We are made to make. We are partial to production. Wired for work. And yet there is another fact that seems to stand in [...]

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The other night I watched The Pursuit of Happyness and it got me thinking about how money relates to that third inalienable right. If you have not seen the film I will sum it up in two sentence - Chris Gardener, a down and out medical supplies salesman, overcomes great financial adversity to [...]

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