The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

 Originally written:  11/30/2018   Preface: I want to start this preface to make it clear that I am not the best, fastest, or most avid reader at all. However, I can say that I made significant progress in this area of my life over the past three or four years. This guide provides the reasons and the processes I undertook to try and read more. Because this guide only reflects my experience, it would be wrong for me to think this is universally applicable to all people. However, I again want to show how much I changed along this process. For instance, I recall that I did not read my first book for pleasure until the winter of 2017. On the contrary, in 2018, I read 5 books from front to back so far. Otherwise, between 2012-2016 I only really read for my college classes. My hope is that this guide can help you become better read in topics you want to learn about in time. 1.     Begin with a topic you want to read about. a.     For me, this was a...

 Originally Written: 05/31/2019 Premise I had a conversation with a couple of my co-workers about a week before the time of this writing on the topic of child support. Although it revolved around whether or not child support should even exist in the first place, I found myself to be really uninformed on the topic. What proceeded after that discussion was a quick google search that led me to this quote from the Wikipedia page on child support: “The 1992 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a binding convention signed by every member nation of the United Nations and formally ratified by all but the United States. It declares that the upbringing and development of children and a standard of living adequate for the children's development is a common responsibility of both parents and a fundamental human right for children, and asserts that the primary responsibility to provide such for the children rests with their parents.” I found this interesting as the de...

  Originally written 04/17/2018 Transcribed and edited 9/2/2018 I always found it interesting how easy it can be to dislike someone, and that for a notable amount of people this seems to be the default setting for the way they interact with others. Now, in this respect, I don’t exactly want to delve into the unfortunate life circumstances of rape victims, abuse victims, mental disorders, or other psychological disorders as they constitute an entirely different set of rules and principles that guide their behavior. I only want to investigate the typical person you would find at the grocery store, work with at a job, or go on a date with. However, I want to get the point across that disliking someone takes a lot more work than people realize. I will take the next few pages to explain why I think so and give a couple of examples of the principles I lay out in action. Basic Definitions to Establish our Premise Imperative to understanding the position I take is to define the terms I w...

Originally Written: 06/04/2016 I want to say that like most people, I spent some time thinking about what kind of training or curriculum a person could engage in that would best result in a group of highly competent leaders resistant to the ills that accompany these roles such as corruption and maleficence. Duriang this day I took to writing, I came to the conclusion that in order to get competent leaders, you have to teach them the rulebook while they’re young, and tailor their curriculum based on their age and to expand the range of subjects to include things that are not currently taught in the current American school system. Without further ado, I lay out my idea below. A system of sort needs to have a defined set of core values. They are: ·        Moral fortitude ·        A well-rounded knowledge base in the natural science, social sciences, business, and interpersonal communications ·        ...

  Originally Written: 08/04/2016 This idea is driven by a few influences. First, at the time of this writing, the United States is in all respects a consumerist economy driven by consumer spending. Second, labor and education seem to be at a disconnect. In a labor role, someone either works in an interdisciplinary team or works divided from a part of an overall process. How can education be tweaked to reflect the nature of this reality? First, I propose that we understand that regardless of industry, the labor force can be generalized to extract archetypes of “labor roles” as I have termed them. The labor roles reflect important components necessary for the development of a consumer product and the economy around it. The proposed labor role archetypes are: ·       Theorists ·       Builders-applicators ·       Reviewers Theorist are those typically responsible for developing the ideas or rational...

Originally Written: 04/09/2016 Transcribed and edited: 05/24/2020 Most, if not all of us have a stake in understanding happiness. I can say that I only gave it some thought as I was navigating my time in undergrad. This idea is actually one of the earliest journal entries I made to myself. I was going through a bit of moment because I failed to meet a series of goals I wanted to accomplish as I was leaving my university. Such as it was, I can say I was not exactly in a happy state of mind around the time this entry came into existence. Without further ado, I will introduce my concept of where happiness lies for people. Visual Summary and Introduction A series of assumptions are made in the formulation of this idea that you should be aware of. First, in this view, happiness has a hierarchical order to the various types of happiness determined by their strength and their relative difficulty to achieve. Someone can find themselves at different stages of happiness at any time during their ...

  Hello, welcome to this blog! I'm glad that you clicked the link! So, you may by wondering what you've come across on this small corner of the internet. You’ve come across a repository of the thoughts of Hadrian Archo. Who is Hadrian Archo? Hadrian Archo is the pen name and alter ego of a biomedical researcher in the United States. This biomedical researcher is an oddball in his field by most accounts, he came from humble origins of Spanish speaking parents and worked in construction for his dad when he was growing up. He later attended a top 25 university in the US after working his way through community college as a pizza boy and security guard, and now works at a prestigious research institution. Unlike many biomedical scientists, he pursued biomedical research by following his nose rather than following his heart, but that’s not the only thing that makes him stick out in a lab setting. What most people will say about the man behind Hadrian Archo is his willingness ...