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Tag: philosophy

  • The Lessons of Mortality, Approaching 2021 & Cutting The Noise

    Facing this new year one of the things that struck me recently was the returning wisdom of always being able to find opportunity in a situation no matter how dire things may appear. In the midst of the haphazard handling of the Covid-19 epidemic by the United States, the passing of a family member, and…

  • 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…

  • An Introduction To Polymathism

    Something that I’ve been toying with for a long time is the idea of wearing many hats, so to speak. Even with the rise of people working from home and things such as freelancing that we see in the modern world, the idea of pursuing many careers at the same time or exploring different creative…

  • 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…

  • 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…