Engineers like problems and businesspeople like solutions. When was the last time you heard any executive say, “let’s sit down in front of this whiteboard and try to better understand the problem at hand”? If it was recent, congratulations, you’re in a lucky minority. The truth is that the majority of executives want to hear solutions, not problems; sales, not internal struggle.
Why Nudity Is Good
Sunday, March 11, 2007
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!Henry David Thoreau
There is a dreadful anxiety surrounding nudity in some modern countries, most notably the United States. [...]
Initial Thoughts on Consumption and Production
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
There are unique conditions in Western culture and the United States specifically that highlight vast differences from other cultures and past times with respect to consumption and production. It should be obvious that technology has given Western culture a large lever with which to accelerate its levels of both consumption and production. Still though, there [...]
The Bible as Philosophy
Thursday, August 10, 2006
As with any other subject that people are passionate about, religion has its reactionaries who subconsciously categorize interlocutors into generalized positions. There are Christians who will infer from your lack of belief in Christianity as a whole that you think everything Christian is necessarily false, bad, or useless. This is, of course, a logical fallacy.
If [...]
What’s Wrong with Ajax?
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the popularization of useful techniques in any field, but the process by which this takes place has profound implications for the overall comprehension of knowledge and the quality of the products produced in that field. The explosion of attention toward the web applications arena was inevitable and has produced numerous [...]
Morality of Sex
Friday, March 17, 2006
There are two factors concerned with the morality of sex and sexual behavior: consent and maturity. Archaic definitions of sexual morality are unnecessarily restrictive, following the “fear the unknown” mantra, and fail to logically address the issue with anything more than circular arguments.
There have been several court cases in the recent past involving two sexual [...]
Determinism and Free Will
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Often in the course of the philosophy of religion, the question of free will vs. determinism is brought up. Typically, the non-religious side claims that every human has complete autonomy and control over him or herself, doing whatever is willed and having unbounded freedom. The religious side usually asserts that there is some omnipotent, omniscient, [...]
Unauthorized Authorization
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
There is an increasing trend in which certain reasonably educated individuals in the computer software industry have decided to take it upon themselves to endeavor into a mildy annoying, carelessly destructive, and decidedly irresponsible realm: that of unathorized authorization. By this I mean to say that these people have taken the normally enormous leap from [...]
Necessity of Change
Sunday, June 5, 2005
I am interested to know how many other people out there believe that there is something wrong with the current United States government. I’m not necessarily looking for positions on specific issues, but rather would just like to know roughly what proportion of the people think something is wrong.
Sadly, my guess is that most people [...]
Atheism: Debunked
Monday, May 16, 2005
Atheism is the state either of being without theistic beliefs, or of actively disbelieving in the existence of deities.
Wikipedia
1. a) Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. b) The doctrine that there is no God or gods. 2. Godlessness; immorality.
American Heritage Dictionary
1. archaic : UNGODLINESS, WICKEDNESS. 2. a) a disbelief in [...]
