FourthEye

Category: frameworks/models

  • You’re Avoiding The Most Important Thing

    Why can’t you achieve your 10 year goals in 6 months? This is one of my favorite thought experiments from the renowned contrarian and renegade investor Peter Thiel. Every time I ask myself this question, particularly when layered upon itself, I helplessly zero-in on the most important thing that I can do in any moment.…

  • Manhattan Projects

    How might your life be different if you could consult the brightest minds in the domain of whatever problem you’re trying to solve? I often like to joke that Manhattan projects fell out of favor after the last party built the deadliest bomb the world had ever seen. In some strange way, the fear that…

  • The Self-Improvement Trap

    Sometimes the voice in our head telling us we need to get better is actually our greatest enemy. When I was a younger man, perfectionism and imposter syndrome in full stride, I spent inordinate amounts of time trying to better myself. I consumed all the quality self-improvement content I could get my hands on. Whether…

  • Escaping The Ego: On Networking & Asking For Help

    Hey y’all hope you’re doing fabulously well. I apologize that it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything substantive to FourthEye, I’ve been quite busy as of late, and working on another blog. The topic is art and anime (no not my shitty art) which showcases art from a number of great artists, most of…

  • The Lens of “Optimal”

    Although I spend a lot of time doing it, I’ve spent little time talking explicitly about my focus on optimization. The pursuit of optimization is more or less, the lens through which I see most issues and facets of my life. Whether it’s health, wealth, love and relationships or internal peace and enlightenment, optimization is…

  • How Not To Be Tired All The Time

    One somewhat of a different note from much of the other content on the blog, I want to address how to deal with a common problem that I personally run into a lot. While I certainly don’t possess a cure-all type solution to the topic issue of this piece, I do have a lot of…

  • Bite-Sized #1 – Performance/Productivity Pyramid Model

    Trying something a little bit different for FourthEye, as an idea I had around how to achieve higher engagement and avoid burning out. My idea was to do little, bite-sized posts where I discuss something like a model or concept that I’m working with, that may not be super polished but just something that people…

  • 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…

  • Fleshing Out A Concept Of Plausibility Tolerance

    Note: This article is actually something that has been sitting on the backburner for a while, but now that I’m more available to work on the blog I wanted to get it out quickly. As always I reviewed it a number of times, but there may still be a few spelling errors or grammatical errors.…

  • 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…