Tom Wolfe Trumps Michael Shermer

"[Y]ou can learn more from being gullible [open-minded] than from being guarded [skeptical]."

Excellence & Equality

Excellence and equality--virtue and deontology--are hard to square.

Listen to Experts

Philosophy's individualistic methodology has made me overconfident in my ability to figure out an issue by researching it on my own rather than reaching out and listening to relevant experts outside of philosophy