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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 212: An Instruction Booklet for the Brain
Description: Jon’s journey to becoming a critical thinker was pretty unique. Just before turning twenty he impulsively stabbed a man, which earned him 27 years for Attempted Second Degree Murder. While in prison, he got deep into litigation as he tried to overturn his conviction. He researched his own appeals, filed suit against his lawyer for ineffective counsel, and even sued the department of corrections several times, winning a landmark case which declared Humanism as an officially recognized religion in the Wyoming Dept. of Corrections. Unfortunately his appeals were ultimately not successful, and he slowly moved from studying law to readin...