About Me

I'm Joe Schlessinger, based in Washington, DC. This is where I put things I make for fun.

There are technical projects and data analysis (written the old-fashioned way, before AI, with Stack Overflow and spite), book reviews, a reading log, and essays that are mostly trying to be funny.

Featured Posts

Xenophon: Cyropaedia and the Anabasis

16 minute read

A synthesis of the conflicting visions of The Anabasis of Cyrus and Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus, defending Xenophon against snobbish analytic philosop...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

11 minute read

Tom Wolfe’s outrage machine, then and now, and why the bonfire was really an exaltation.

Akerlof’s Market for Singles

9 minute read

Dating apps are broken due to adverse selection. Microeconomic theory can help explain why people looking for serious relationships are driven away from apps...

Legacy and Wikipedia: Will you be Remembered?

5 minute read

An exploration of biographical Wikipedia articles and their popularity. Even those noteworthy enough for Wikipedia pages receive few views, and older pages g...

Chinese Postman Problem In Real Life

4 minute read

How long would it take to walk every street in Shippan? A practical application of graph theory and the Chinese Postman Problem to real-world navigation.

Modeling the Army Talent Alignment Process

15 minute read

Simulating the Army’s officer assignment marketplace to discover how scheming and rule-breaking create unfair advantages over honest participants in the Gale...