Justin Mallone

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Favicon 🤔

I customized my Ghost Blog’s favicon. I thought to do this because I was reading a post on Elliot Temple’s Critical Fallibilism site, and I also had a couple of tabs open for my own blog, and I couldn’t tell at a glance which tabs corresponded to

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Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 7

Part 7 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 6 - Suppression & Propping Up A False Moral Status

Part 6 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Exercise Apps

I like Apple’s Fitness+ app/service. I tried a few different things but particularly liked the functional strength workouts. I found the very guided workouts to be quite useful as a beginner. Going through an entire workout with someone and watching them do the exercises from different angles gives

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Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 5

Part 5 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Preferred Indifferents & Objectivism

A post on applying the Stoic idea of preferred indifferents to a couple of passages of Ayn Rand's novels.

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Emotions and Moral Judgment, Part 4

Part 4 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Advantage of Dialogs

I think that one advantage of writing dialogs is that it removes some potential triggers of wanting to engage in a social performance from a communication. What I mean is that if you’re talking to someone else, you might have some automated behaviors regarding wanting to appear like a

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Counterrhetoric

A dialog on Stoicism as a kind of counterrhetoric.

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Dialogue on Emotions and Moral Judgment, Part 3

A dialog discussing the Objectivist ethics and going on various tangents. It is setting the groundwork for a discussion about morality and emotions

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Differences in the Consciousness of a Day

A dialogue on a quote from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

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Archimedes App

Archimedes is a nifty Markdown editor that supports writing math in LaTeX quickly and has an integrated preview window for viewing LaTeX. It also is specifically set up to make entering LaTeX easy. Some examples of this easy of entering LaTeX: 1) after you type $$ to indicate that you want

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Dialogue on Emotions and Moral Judgment, Part 2

Part 2 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Dialogue About “Time-Based Metric For Overreaching” Part 2

Part 2 of a dialogue about an article from Elliot Temple on a time-based metric for avoiding overreaching.

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Why Are Dialogues Easier to Write for Me?

I have been writing dialogues lately. I find it easier to write large amounts of writing in dialogue form than in other styles of writing. I was thinking about why this might be the case. I came up with two reasons. One is a fancier point, and one is more

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Dialogue About “Time-Based Metric For Overreaching” Part 1

A dialog about some of an article from Elliot Temple on a time-based metric for avoiding overreaching.

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Dialogue on Emotions and Moral Judgment, Part 1

A dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".

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Finding & Fixing Defects in Character

A dialogue about addressing moral flaws

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Mistakes & Doing the Right Thing

Mistakes that we’ve already made in the past can’t be unmade. You can learn from them, and try to avoid making the same mistake twice, and try to make amends for them, but you can’t get an actual do-over. People often beat themselves up for mistakes made

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Newsletter Strategy

I had been sending out each blog post as a separate email. Since I’m planning on posting more frequently now, I think that will get annoying for people. So I’m planning on sending more infrequent updates with links to posts (frequency TBD based on how much I post)

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Error in Stoicism Book?

A post respectfully suggesting that there may be an error in a book about Stoicism.

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Further Microblog Revisions

Clicking on the title of my microblog entries will take you to an individual page for them now. This is for the purpose of being able to link specific microblogs and enable comments. To get this to work, I had to do two things. First, my microblog entries weren't having

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John Hospers vs. Rand

Discussing the break between Ayn Rand & John Hospers

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RSS Feeds

This blog has 3 different RSS feeds (main blog, micro blog, comments). Details are at the bottom of the about page.

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New Microblog

I added a microblog section to my blog. You can see the hbs file I made to implement it here. I don't fully understand it ... it's a bit of a copy-paste job that incorporates some advice from Ghost discussion forums, but it seems to work. I also added some lines