Spencer Goad, Music Teacher and Capoierista

Bem-Vindo (welcome, in Portuguese), Spencer Lagosta (capoiera nickname), an enthusiastic and motivating capoierista and music teacher in the public school system. He is growning a capoeira school around which a …

Sincere Irony, and apparent paradoxes

Shall a person be flexible or firm? Is it better to explore or exploit? Science is better than art! Are these questions ill motivated? Any particular strategy to living will …

Time Banking, better than Wells Fargo!

I’ve talked before about how all currencies are fundamentally social constructions that function as trust tokens or “units of caring“. As with anything constructed, we get to institute it according …

Success Paradox, or Useful Delusions?

My name is Keevin and I’m a recovering libertarian who used to love Ayn Rand after reading The Fountain Head. Previously, unexamined “Freedom” was the most important value to me. …

An Architecture of Motivation?

Most of human morals have been generated ad hoc based on limited knowledge of the human organism, be it biologically, psychologically, intellectually, emotionally, or socially. Certainly, we have stumbled upon …

Contextualism

Among our many awesome though limited survival heuristics is the binary bias. We tend to want to discretely categorize information into binaries. This has shown up in our institutions of …

Half Assed Attempts as Proof of Failure

As a counter to calls for increased public funding for social programs, I frequently hear “Throwing government money at the problem never solved it, so why should we throw more?”. …