Bloghttp://www.ialas.net/blog/2009-11-11T08:21:50ZSquarespaceialashttp://feedburner.google.comhttp://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/11/7/a-stroke-of-insight.htmlIan Alas2009-11-07T19:46:45Z2009-11-07T19:46:45ZThe video below has the potential to change your life. Keep in mind that people paid over $2000 to see this presentation live, that your only cost is 20 minutes, that it usually takes longer than 20...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/bz7dYfJSAEg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/10/29/opinion-is-the-lowest-form-of-knowledge.htmlIan Alas2009-10-29T18:45:02Z2009-10-29T18:45:02ZHigh school teacher Bill Bullard makes a great point about opinions: Schools, especially good ones that so emphasize student voice, teach us to value opinion. This is a great deception. Opinion is...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/x3gSbDJrFQk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/10/19/love-is-selfish-selflessness.htmlIan Alas2009-10-19T19:27:00Z2009-10-19T19:27:00ZThey say that love is unselfish, but is that even possible? I've never loved someone for purely unselfish reasons, my desire for another entwined with my desire to improve my happiness. And as soon...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/RKM-eUAqcpw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/10/5/privacy-policy.htmlIan Alas2009-10-05T20:07:42Z2009-10-05T20:07:42ZI've been debating for a while about whether to talk about my new relationship on this blog. I'm not an extremely private or public person, but I'm more of an open book than most. I'm convinced I...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/RONdICtrjBE" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/9/27/we-found-ourselves-calling-one-another-every-day.htmlIan Alas2009-09-27T17:11:00Z2009-09-27T17:11:00Z"We found ourselves calling one another every day, sometimes as many as five times a day, not to say anything in particular, but simply because both of us felt we had never spoken like this to anyone...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/4N-2k0RTkwI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/9/26/modus-operandi.htmlIan Alas2009-09-26T15:14:42Z2009-09-26T15:14:42ZI'm sorry for neglecting this blog. It's hard to find time to write when life gets busy. Though that's not a great excuse because plenty of busy people make time to write. They say that it isn't work...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/aSd6g9dGO78" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/8/16/you-cant-handle-the-truth.htmlIan Alas2009-08-17T05:25:21Z2009-08-17T05:25:21ZMy moral philosophy was largely influenced by a class I took in high school that broke down all moral dilemmas into rational arguments. One such argument posits that a village of liars would be...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/pxPIxxZPxb8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/7/27/opportunity-costs.htmlIan Alas2009-07-27T20:00:08Z2009-07-27T20:00:08ZThe other day my friend Dante said to me, "The opportunity cost of anything is everything else." If you look up the definition of opportunity cost, it's usually limited to the second best...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/NMVaUUaVH9E" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/7/17/be-more-intense-about-fewer-things.htmlIan Alas2009-07-17T18:41:15Z2009-07-17T18:41:15ZTwo years ago, I read this article on Roger Federer: A couple of times during his press conferences, someone's cell phone went off, each time with an annoyingly loud ring tone. Both times, everyone...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/xBQH9Er6hDQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.ialas.net/blog/2009/7/10/the-problem-with-empathy.htmlIan Alas2009-07-10T17:41:57Z2009-07-10T17:41:57ZThe problem with empathy is that you can never truly understand what it feels like to be someone else. But since you can come close, you fill in the unknowns with assumptions, based on your past...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ialas/~4/EQbLwXfCqlg" height="1" width="1"/>