Isaac Morehouse

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Good Enough for a Dog? Aug 24, 2014

You wouldn't think of putting your beloved dog through a regimen like this.

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How to Keep the Young and Poor from Succeeding Jul 31, 2014

Join my conspiracy to keep young whipper snappers from economic success!

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The Reality of College Jul 21, 2014

In theory, it's a priceless place of self-discovery and enlightenment. In reality, it's an expensive way to signal you have the most basic level of skill and ability.

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Disrupting Education Jul 14, 2014

Is college fading in importance? What should a young person do to prepare for career and life?

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Of Markets and Manners Jul 8, 2014

If you're hostile towards your customers, your business model is probably about to be destroyed. That's what's great about markets. They make us nicer.

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How to Introduce Yourself to New People Jun 26, 2014

Don't just describe yourself by what you do, what group you belong to, or your education or career status. Persuade others to get excited about your unique story or vision!

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Video Games as High Art Jun 6, 2014

A few years back, I listened to a phenomenal ten-part lecture series on commerce and culture by Paul Cantor.  In the final lecture, he discusses the future of art, and his prediction is that video games will emerge as the next dominant medium.  I thought it was an interesting conjecture, but it didn’t really sink in. Fast forward to today, when my nine-year-old son is immersed in a world of video games I could not have imagined.  It’s not gaming as I knew it, which was basically another form of sports – a competitive one-on-one or one-vs.-computer activity that involved the...

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Heaven & Hell Jun 5, 2014

A poem about intentions vs. outcomes, perception vs. reality, and politics vs. freedom.

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Tailor Your Education to You Jun 3, 2014

The worst thing you can do is make personal decisions based on data about some aggregate group you're supposed to be a part of.

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Practicality or Passion? May 31, 2014

Is it better to do what you love, or see work as just a way to pay the bills so you can do what you love in your free time?

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How Entrepreneurs Change the World May 19, 2014

If you don't know a better world is possible, you won't be working towards it.

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“Conservatives” and “Liberals” are Conservative May 17, 2014

In modern usage, both "conservatives" and "liberals" are fundamentally conservative.  Both are motivated by stasis and dread dynamism above all.  One may fear it more in some spheres than the other, and vice versa, but both seek to halt progress.  Both wish to turn evolving processes into stagnant castes.  Both are reactionary.  Both are motivated by fear, cynicism, and anger more than hope, optimism or wonder.  Both rest on naive, unrealistic notions of human nature.  Prices should be fixed.  Differences between people frozen.  Technology, movement, art, nature, ideas, and all manner of social orders walled in.  Dissenters smashed, experimenters stymied,...

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We Are Gods May 17, 2014

A short poem about free-will, innovation, and the beautiful progress of mankind.

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How to Use Email May 16, 2014

A quick list of tips for young people seeking to advance in career and life. Don't be an email idiot!

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How the World Will Change May 15, 2014

Freedom is possible, even probable. Here's how it will happen.

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It’s Not About GDP May 14, 2014

Forget the measures, we're a lot richer! Information tech increases human flourishing but doesn't do much for old-school metrics like employment and GDP. Being listed as on the payroll of a company doesn't always equal being better off, nor does having a larger number of physical objects to count.

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It’s Time to Challenge the Higher Ed Status Quo May 12, 2014

These young people are breaking the mold, and it's just the beginning.

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Transport Me vs. Transport We May 9, 2014

A poem about public transit and the busybodies who wish to end the wonder of personal travel.

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How Else to Protect Us From Danger? May 8, 2014

A satire. Because if we can't laugh at it, we'll cry.

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Breaking the Mold: A Practical Alternative to College May 7, 2014

Bill Frezza interviewed me about Praxis on the RealClear Radio Hour. https://soundcloud.com/realclearradiohour/breaking-the-mold-a-practical

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