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A big trend in the management/self-help guru industrial complex concerns maximizing productivity. While I think this can be a worthy goal in some respects, I think it misses the big picture. What I think we ought to be doing is looking for ways to maximize the value or meaningfulness of what we do with our […]
Read More Applied Philosophy: How to Spend Your Free Time MeaningfullyThe JargonLets get it out the way, shall we?Negative rights place obligations on others to abstain from doing something. The most common example of a negative right is freedom of speech. My (negative) right to freedom of speech places an obligation on others (in most cases, the guvamint) to abstain from restricting my speech.Positive rights place […]
Read More A Problem for LibertarianismAlt-med practitioners and proponents luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve to talk about how no one would ever get sick if they just did x, y, z to boost their immune system. Here’s the thing guys. When push comes to shove, I don’t think that you really believe your own hype. But I could be wrong. Fortunately I’m going to […]
Read More My Challenge to Alt-MedOne thing that blows my mind is the frequency with which I see people texting and driving. It’s absolutely mind-bottling. In fact, because of it, my mind has been put in a bottle several times. It could be confirmation bias, but I swear 1 in 4 drivers I see are either texting or talking while […]
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Wrestling with Philosophy 