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Category: frameworks/models

  • Some Ideas On Approaching Work Differently

    As someone who is graced with the opportunity to be self-employed, I’ve been thinking about how I might get more out of myself without succumbing to the all to familiar “running on e” problem. To the end of addressing this problem, I’ve been playing around with tying in some ideas that I’ve gotten from the…

  • Some Thoughts On The Case Of “Talent v Hard-Work”

    Both because of a debate that I’ve been watching unfold recently and my long standing interest in this topic, I thought I would offer what is hopefully a bit of a different take on the age-old case of “Talent v Hard-Work.” Before we get to the alternative model definition that I want to share in…

  • On Preferring Gradient Scale Assessment To Hard Description

    First and foremost I apologize for the title, I’m tryin’ here I really am, but I couldn’t think of a cooler, more, “roll off the tongue” nomer for this one, so again sorry about that. In other news you may have noticed that I’m again posting to the blog which would likely not have happened,…

  • A Rough Hierarchy For Ranking Systems

    Initially, I had intended to write a piece generally on the topic of the importance of individualization, but decided that this instead would be much more valuable as it offers a more comprehensive way of appreciating the distinctions between various systems. Individualization is still a very central theme in this piece, however it is now…

  • Another Way Of Thinking About Values

    Written by: Orion Webster I’ve been thinking for sometime now about the problems in practice with moral relativism and the problems in principle with moral objectivism, and I’d like to share another way of thinking about values and how we treat each other, that I think wraps up the pros and cons of the aforementioned…