Tag: critical thinking

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…