FourthEye

Category: cultural analysis

  • Lean-In To Absurdity

    The success of a unicorn is determined by the quality of its reality distortion field. Nobody stands out merely by having unique ideas. Everybody has unique ideas. People become titans by persistently figuring out how to make their absurd ideas work, while inspiring those around them with an almost feverish commitment to a useful delusion.…

  • Fall In Love With Failure

    The difference between the quitters and winners is being conditioned for the unexpected. When things are handed to us on a silver platter, too much, too soon, our confidence goes up un-anchored to our actual ability. Getting your ass handed to you early and often is a great embodied lesson that things may not manifest…

  • Some Ramblings On The Trajectory Of The Internet

    In some odd way it feels as though this is a piece I’ve been writing, or been struggling to, for 5 years or more at this point. I’ve recorded podcasts, some released some not, written extensively in private and typed out lengthy c++ introductions on this topic more times than I recall. While the world…

  • The Designer & The Architect

    Over the past few years, I’ve spent a fair amount of energy trying to work out how Americans and increasingly, people of the world, can cooperate to tackle our shared problems. Something that comes up frequently is the divide that we see seemingly growing between the progressive and conservative perspectives, in perhaps many countries but…

  • Rethinking Trust

    Something that’s been on my mind as of late, is the odd misappropriation of trust and expectations that I see as being all too common. Though I am not a psychological expert, I suspect that what I’m noticing may simply be an already well appreciated cognitive bias that sprouts up in people from time to…

  • American Inefficiency Warfare Strategy

    Quick Note: Apologies for my absence recently, I’ve been a bit occupied and have fallen behind a bit on my plans for the site. There may also be a few spelling errors and whatnot as I didn’t review this as many times as I would’ve liked in the interest of getting this out sooner. That…

  • Reflecting On The Case Of George Floyd

    Given that there are many places that I could begin with this difficult topic, I think I want to start by exploring why I think this is important and why I’m choosing to comment on it. Firstly, I think that this is important because this issue is a kind of great wave, that has both…