2 days ago2 minMy Dissertation: pt. 1For the past month, I’ve been running an experiment. I started going to two therapists so we can form a consensus. Weirdly, this is kind...
Oct 275 minWe’ve confused Intrinsic & Ultimate value and it’s been a DisasterIf you’ve happened to take a course in intro ethics, you might have heard of a classic distinction between instrumental and intrinsic...
Oct 1310 minSomeone could get it WrongI had a really interesting conversation about art criticism this week. So here we go: What does it mean to be great at jazz? Look, I know...
Sep 223 minOn being taken SeriouslyNow that I’m back in Bloomington for a while, everyone has a ton of advice on how to present myself on the academic job market so that...
Aug 254 minThe Politics of Age of Empires III’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...
Aug 181 minI got PublishedNeat! You can check out a free version of my paper “Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism” here. (The final, professionally edited and typeset...
Jun 306 minI had to write a research statement about what I’m working on. Here’s my first draft.Let me know what you think! I'm still figuring out how to summarize my research program and instill confidence I’ll be a “productive”...
Jun 910 minJustice for Assholes (and why we need Utopias)I’ve been putting together a syllabus called Utopias that draws from a bunch of fields (philosophy, literature, anthropology…) to try to...
Apr 71 minHere's my dissertation in 9 minutesFrom a comedic storytelling showcase at Jackalope Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.