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Thank You Dr. Henry!

Posted on June 12, 2020

Here’s the story of my fundraiser: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Notes from 6. Caylan Ford

Posted on June 4, 2020

Here are the show notes from my conversation with Caylan Ford. As always, the actual minute will be around 1 -2 minutes later than usual. So if you want to hear about Caylan’s preference for milk oolong green tea, it won’t be at 0:00 but rather at 1:30 or 2:00 ish. If you’d like to do some reading on the texts that she ent which turned into a complete nightmare, they’re pretty easy to find by googling her name. IfRead More

Shownotes from Zach

Posted on May 29, 2020

Here are the reading notes from my conversation with Zach. We talked for nearly two hours and talked about a bunch of things.  2.30 Trad arch: ornamentation, based on old designs. Modernism: clean lines, no ornamentation.  5:00 Zach’s experience at school: you’ve always got to “reinterpret” the architecture; you can’t just build a building. Notre Dame Architecture school, traditional architecture.  Immersion in minimalism and modernism, how Zach came to like traditional architecture. “Beauty” – the word. How architects reject the notion. Read More

The Loaded Barbell Issue of Hookups

Posted on May 28, 2020

“The first time I saw him was on the bus, on my way home from work. I was sitting in the middle of the bus when he got on. He had a sharp jawline, piercing predatory eyes (just my type!) a shirt which failed to conceal his muscular torso, and healthy, glowing skin.  I looked at him.  He looked at me.  And we knew instantly we’d soon sleep with each other.  He sat down in the seat right next toRead More

Day 4: The F**k up

Posted on May 26, 2020

Man, I made a HUUGE mistake! A couple of weeks ago, I tried to reduce t-shirt printing costs from $25 to $19 by switching from TeeHatch (the t-shirt printer in Vancouver) to Printify (the more professional website). I added Printify to my store, and then removed the popular TeeHatch t-shirt from my storefront. I thought that this would be enough. This was on Friday evening. Around 7 people bought t-shirts over the weekend. Then, on Sunday, while I was doingRead More

Show Notes from Michael Kudla

Posted on May 24, 2020

0:00 – Being a 7th day Adventist; how the community has its own education system.  6:30 – Being taught evolution in a Christian High School.  9:04 – Cracks in his faith – bible study, reading apologetics. 10:32 – More cracks – conversations with friends, watching the Four Horsemen online, debates.  13:00 – Solution to the doubt – a la Descartes! Figure out first principles. But also, how his social life disappeared.  15:33 – The personal and logical arguments he used to think aboutRead More

Notes from Made to Stick

Posted on May 23, 2020

This is probably the best book I’ve read on how to write/speak/communicate. It solves all of the major problems I (and every other communicator) has. You need to read the book. If you can’t, at least read the notes below. It’s a Grade A book, for SURE. And it’s also not a time waster book – it’s written by both a theorist and a practitioner. Here’s a link to buy it. Core Message: the messages best remembered all have SUCCES:Read More

Show Notes from my Podcast with Steve

Posted on May 21, 2020

Links to the podcast: Anchor, Spotify, Google, Apple. Here are the show notes for my conversation with Steve Paolasini. Here’s a link to his facebook page if you’d like to reach out to him. Update: the times are wrong! You’ve got to add 3 minutes to the times below to get the right time. 2:00 Steve’s protest against traffic tickets during COVID-19.  HustleCo, Husam.  Stopping drinking.  The insecurity of being a contrarian.  His new work in Immigration.  Dropping out ofRead More

The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need for Learning Latin

Posted on May 20, 2020

Dead language or not, you can still reap plenty of rewards from learning the Roman tongue. Read on to learn how. First, why you want to learn Latin? Are you sure you want to? Latin is not for the faint of heart. It is not a “fun” language that you pick up on your weekend trip to Italy, either. You’ll need perseverance, grit, dedication, and patience. Do you want to be able to chop up a sentence to articulate whyRead More

Summary of Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford.

Posted on May 16, 2020

So this lovely book came in the mail today, earlier than the release date on Amazon. It’s much thinner than I expected – no more than 2 cm thick. Below are my notes for Dr. Ryan Alford’s book . They’re not yet finished, but what I’ve read so far has been exciting. The biggest reason for why is that there are rights which are absolute. They can’t be limited by the government under any circumstances, and they’re older than theRead More

Show notes from Nikola Kuzmanovic

Posted on May 7, 2020

Here’s where you can listen to the podcast: Anchor Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Here are the topics we covered, roughly speaking. 0:00 Why, Eugene, should you start a podcast? What do you seek to accomplish with it? COVID-19, epistemology, and what it means to be a contrarian. Changing people’s beliefs, encouraging critical thinking. Whether dialogue and discourse are worthwhile. Changing behaviours and actions. Finally, how face-to-face discourse reveals new options and invokes humanity. ~33:00 The place of experience in persuasion,Read More

Day 3: Dr. Henry Fundraiser

Posted on April 26, 2020

The best marketing doesn’t even know that it’s marketing. That’s a tough lesson I’ve learned in this campaign. One artist from my store made a post on the Dr. Henry fan page. It said, basically, that he put his design on a t-shirt, and now he was fundraising with it. His post was blocked by the admins. But some other person put out a fundraising request and … his post was allowed! A third person was making coffee mugs (fundraising,Read More

Storytelling and Analysis

Posted on April 25, 2020

Ever since high school, literary analysis has both bewitched and baffled me. In English, we’d read through a short story, or a play, or watch a movie, and then our sharp-as-a-tack English teacher Ms. Mosca would give us a one liner that completely blew our minds with its depth and wisdom. I would get so frustrated when she did that because I didn’t have the same knack for it. Because coming up with pearls of wisdom from every single textRead More

Day 2 of my Dr. Henry Fundraiser

Posted on April 20, 2020

So it’s not really day two in real life, it’s more like day two of progress. In reality it’s more like day 20. Two of the four artists I reached out to are now on board – now we’re working out the fine processes and how it works, etc. I don’t think I should wait for TeeHatch to send me my t-shirt. It’ll come within 5 days. I’ll take a chance and launch the website anyways. If worst comes toRead More

There’s No Such Thing as “Good” Writing

Posted on April 19, 2020

“You need to be a good writer in order to succeed!” “His writing is just better than hers!” “Good writing is something which can serve you throughout your life.” Or so they said. I went to university in order to learn what this mythical thing of “good writing” was. I was told that once I had it, the world would open up to me and I would be a powerful person. More or less. Steven Pinker said it had toRead More