FourthEye

Tag: critical feeling

  • You Are Not A Fraud

    When you are generously and passionately trying to solve a hard problem your relative expertise is irrelevant. New problems and neglected problems, by definition, have no experts. Whoever makes the first move is never qualified. You’re there to do the work because it matters. When you stick your neck out for the projects that others…

  • The Voice That Never Speaks

    All these why’s are incomplete. Whenever you ask a great sounding question it’s easy to forget that the answer is still bullshit. Even the truest seeming stories are at best inspiring delusions coughed up by someone you believe you ought to respect. People often accuse me of being cold or callous, but that isn’t even…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lifestyle Design Part 3: Setting The Stage For Quality Work

    Originally, I hadn’t planned to associate this piece with lifestyle design when I first wrote about the ideas I’m about to share here, but I thought that much of what I’m gonna touch on is so fundamental to a quality life, that it may as well be put in the lifestyle design series. The basic…