Neil deGrasse Tyson
(our generation’s Carl Sagan) takes what appears to be intellectual high
ground by denying that the term “atheism” has any use in our society.

Would that this were true.

What he fails to acknowledge in hi…

With
the changes to Safari
coming up in Mountain Lion I may abandon Chrome as my primary browser.

Here are my main thoughts:

Safari now has a unified input interface (search, direct urls, etc.)
which…

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Basically, the role of the government is to provide for our welfare, to see
that we flourish, etc. Note this part of the constitution:

Notice that from a GOP perspective even public schooling is anti-American in
…

It seems to me that every time I come across real philosophers they have an
extremely pompous view of non-academic, amateur, or overly modern or
political thinkers.

In short, they relate everything to the greats: Kant, Plat…

I am demoing a Samsung Galaxy S III.

It’s the new flagship Android device, and I like a lot about it. The screen
is stunning and call quality actually seems better on it. It’s also on
AT&T’s 4G network, which I’ve honestly noti…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the habits of productive people.
When I say productive I mean successful–as in setting out to accomplish
something and then doing it.

I’ll put up Paul Graham and Sam Harris as examples.
…

So I just finished up my annual Vegas trip. Much was accomplished.

Attended a ton of great talks that will get parsed into additions to our
testing methodologies

Had valuable face time with the team
…

Smart, educated people tend to avoid junk food. They tend to be thinner and
have better diets because they’re simply more aware of the downsides of
eating crap, including the negative effect it has on productivity.

It should be …

I already did a post on my recent Vegas trip, but there’s a piece of it that
I didn’t mention.

Working in my current job I have had the privilege to be able to hire many
of my friends, and going to Vegas this time (our team…

I’ll try to avoid cliché, but for this post it’ll be difficult.

I have a friend named Brad. I met him in my first job out of college where
we both started on the same infosec team at a credit card processing
company. He was startin…