Archives for August 2017

My Problem With Buddhism

[ August 31st, 2017 ] I’ll start by saying that I am not an expert in Buddhism,…

I recently spent two weeks in London followed by a week in Las Vegas. As I was…

I think I bring this up every year or so, but the point is becoming more acute…

The struggle for ideological simplicity forces a polarization in our public dialog…

This is probably nothing, but if I were Putin, and I was in charge of a massive…

I just finished listening to Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate politics on Sam’s…

Evidently, Socrates thought the greatest potential for evil came from the ignorance…

The more I pay attention in the Bay Area the more I’m noticing it’s…

I was just watching some server logs and decided to pull some statistics on common…

Many in the InfoSec community are currently making a major mistake by dismissing…

Statues are a problem. Specifically statues of people. A statue (or sculpture)…

I’ve been thinking about the role of desire in the human identity, and I think…

I have a friend who I’ve always wished I was closer to. He is one of the…

I just lowered my Amazon EC2 bill, over 3 years, from $6,120 to $583. Or, put…