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Category: productivity

  • 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…

  • Automating Success & Rethinking Luck

    Everything important should be decision-less. At first this concept might seem psycho or confused, but it’s the most important key to success. A lot of us assume that our decision making energy should be spent in full on things we deem important, or vital to a life well lived, but very few of us ever…

  • Busy: The Relationship Between Effort & Content Creation

    Sup peeps, hope you’re doing well. As an antidote to my horrible, unplanned hiatus from posting here I’ve been thinking about how to change my relationship with content creation and all of my hair-brain so called long-term goals. A number of years ago, for a variety of reasons, I was able to get a lot…

  • 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…

  • Smithing Better Writing

    So it’s been a little bit since I posted any writing pieces to FourthEye (yes, yes I know you missed me). Jokes aside, although my goal is to publish at least one written blog post per week, I’ve been struggling with what to write about. I don’t know if I would describe my plight as…

  • The Practical Search For Passion

    Reflecting on the many articles I’ve published to FourthEye, I realized that though I’ve spent a decent amount of time talking about the importance of passion and managing it to achieve success and fulfillment, I’ve spent relatively little time addressing how we identify our passion. While everybody and their grandmother at some point or another…

  • 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…

  • Distractions From The Main Plot

    It always feels like such an odd exercise to diminish the importance or usefulness of certain conversations or topics, and yet to the end of effective resource management such a task seems necessary. In this short piece, my hope is to illuminate some of how I think about choosing topics and also cover issues that…

  • Unresolvable Philosophical Differences

    This piece is on a topic that has a really high degree of relevance to one of the bigger roadblocks or struggles that I’ve been dealing with recently. Something that I’ve found somewhat fascinating over the years is whether we ever actually change people’s minds when we have conversations or share our perspectives, or think…

  • The One Person Theater: On Wearing Many Hats

    Glancing at some of the older posts on FourthEye I thought that it might be valuable to create a follow up to my piece on polymathism, something that I personally interact with a fair amount. In this article, I’d like to go over some of the things that I think are paramount for those that…