FourthEye

Category: philosophy

  • 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…

  • On Connecting Inputs With Outputs

    First and foremost, I want to say that I wrote the original piece that this will be working from a long time ago, and I’m not operating at a peak while typing this, so I may fail to do it justice in its now (hopefully) improved, revised and reworked form. The basic concept that I’d…

  • Challenging The Idea Of Avoiding “The Path Of Least Resistance”

    Written On: Monday, January 14th, 2019 Written By: Orion A. Webster Something I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, is the concept that one should avoid the, “path of least resistance”. I’d like to explicitly challenge this heuristic here on the blog because I think there is a harmful flaw in the way…

  • One Antidote To Numbness

    Written Date: Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 Written By: Orion A. Webster I’ve been thinking for some time about transitioning from an age of information to an age of wisdom. It seems that when an abundance of information was created people assumed that the natural progression would be to seek out knowledge by default, but it…

  • 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…

  • The Value Of Working In Service Of Others

    Written by: Orion Webster Before starting FourthEye, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what things were worth working on and really drilling down on why I thought I was justified in choosing the things I did. I often found that I would fizzle out, not because of burnout, or because I…