FourthEye

Tag: critical thinking

  • What Will Ruin This Project?

    Only a few decisions really matter. Even Warren Buffett has often credited the majority of his success to a handful of really good judgment calls. It can be easy to get the impression that working all the time is the key to getting the project where it “needs” to be, but this is a trap…

  • Lean-In To Absurdity

    The success of a unicorn is determined by the quality of its reality distortion field. Nobody stands out merely by having unique ideas. Everybody has unique ideas. People become titans by persistently figuring out how to make their absurd ideas work, while inspiring those around them with an almost feverish commitment to a useful delusion.…

  • Plain Sight

    Apparently over 90% of Americans are estimated to be deficient in potassium. Why hasn’t anyone done anything about it? The cultural narrative is that salt is bad and that most modern people should eat way less. The counter-cultural idea is that salt is great and you should eat a lot. Which is actually true? A…

  • The Myth Of Discipline Revisited

    Misappropriated discipline is the enemy of creativity. If we accept that success is being consistently good over a long period of time, how we produce quality consistently is the pressing question. Discipline is but one part of the toolkit for creating a life well lived, but like the old hammer and nail story it gets…

  • 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…

  • Some Ramblings On The Trajectory Of The Internet

    In some odd way it feels as though this is a piece I’ve been writing, or been struggling to, for 5 years or more at this point. I’ve recorded podcasts, some released some not, written extensively in private and typed out lengthy c++ introductions on this topic more times than I recall. While the world…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • American Inefficiency Warfare Strategy

    Quick Note: Apologies for my absence recently, I’ve been a bit occupied and have fallen behind a bit on my plans for the site. There may also be a few spelling errors and whatnot as I didn’t review this as many times as I would’ve liked in the interest of getting this out sooner. That…