I was thinking a bit about ethics and ambition. It’s weird because ambition can be such a harmful influence in a person’s life, despite the fact that I have great admiration for those who are ambitious. For me, I find myself constantly keeping my ambition in check. It’s actually gotten easier over the years. It’s not that I would consider myself ( Read more... )

I’ve been doing a bit of research as of late in an attempt to understand the incredible mess our economy is in now. I’ve researched a decent amount of US history to try to get a sense of the general patterns our economy goes through, and what events have precipitated the problems we’ve run into. And while that’s been helpful, the mess we’re in now ( Read more... )

As it turns out, the past month has been just about the craziest time of my entire life. My company is finished at this point. In just a few more weeks, it'll be gone completely. And while that has been extremely taxing and challenging for me, I feel pretty good ( Read more... )

My website lives again! Sheepmage.com is back, and with a new layout. As I mention on the site, I’m gonna basically just use the site for pictures, at least until I can figure out some other kind of useful content to put up there. Meanwhile, go check it out. I’ll be adding more albums throughout the week. There are also plenty of Athena pictures, ( Read more... )

In this entry, I try to sum up my thoughts on foundations into 17 propositions. Some of these propositions are simply examples of a more general principle listed earlier. I didn’t want to elaborate too much on any of them, because I wanted them to be bite sized. Some of these will be entirely not obvious, but I think they’re all interesting. Some ( Read more... )

Some recent interactions have led to me an interesting realizations about my relationships with people, and relationships in general. These thoughts have been so interesting that I find myself suddenly wide awake, when a couple hours ago, I was collapsing on my bed with my lights on. So I figure if I can’t sleep, well I may as well write em down.
( The nature of friendships and loans on pride. )

I woke up early today, and find myself with some extra time to think about stuff. So, I've chosen to think about math.

There is an excellent preface I read from a guy in Ohio State that references a lot of Objectivist concepts. You should read it if you want a "basic" intro to foundations of math: Preface to Linear Mathematics in Infinite ( Read more... )

There's a certain incredibleness to the mobile internet. Of course I believe this, as I'm designing software that should make the mobile internet way more accessible, but I'm really talking about the principle of it now. I'm on a train right now, that's passing a beach along the Atlantic, on my way to Boston. And does anyone find it remarkable that ( Read more... )

Sleep won't come easy tonight. Not sure why, maybe the heat, or the food. Who knows. But thus, I type. I love this laptop, I must say. It's a wonderful device, and I wish I had more of a use for it. Alas, my desktop is just more appropriate for most things. But that aside, I noticed a bunch of things about the world I wanted to comment on ( Read more... )

Film has been rather boring as of late. I've sseen a number of films that just haven't been very good, a few that have been decent, and even fewer that I would classify as good (Crash, Pride and Prejudice, Me You and Everyone We Know, United 93, V For Vendetta, Pirates II), though none that have come up to the quality of Finding Nemo or Eternal ( Read more... )