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Tag: thought framework

  • 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…

  • Manhattan Projects

    How might your life be different if you could consult the brightest minds in the domain of whatever problem you’re trying to solve? I often like to joke that Manhattan projects fell out of favor after the last party built the deadliest bomb the world had ever seen. In some strange way, the fear that…

  • Escaping The Ego: On Networking & Asking For Help

    Hey y’all hope you’re doing fabulously well. I apologize that it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything substantive to FourthEye, I’ve been quite busy as of late, and working on another blog. The topic is art and anime (no not my shitty art) which showcases art from a number of great artists, most of…

  • On Limiting Personal Stories

    Hello everyone, hope this article finds you doing well. Firstly, big shoutout to all of the new follows and people that have been showing support, I really appreciate ya. I’d like to ask you all, to leave some comments or feedback somewhere of the type of content that you’ve found most valuable and perhaps what…

  • 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…

  • Retirement Revisited

    Despite my young age, retirement has long been a fascination of mine. Perhaps this makes sense given my interest in many topics generally associated with older demographics, but even since my elementary school days I’ve been thinking about the myth of retirement. Of course by “myth” in this context I don’t mean that retirement isn’t…

  • My Take On Plan B’s

    Something that comes up a tremendous amount, is the topic of what we actually do if “it doesn’t work out.” Being that this question is pretty important for those that try to run their own shows, this has been something that I’ve put a lot of resources into thinking about. In part because at some…

  • On Distancing Self-Evaluation From External Social Reference

    Overlapping somewhat with the theme of the last piece, I’ve decided to talk about why I think using other people as reference material to rank ourselves might be misguided. To start off, I want to get into common scenarios such as privilege assessment as a way of solving for gratitude, or using celebrities, peers or…

  • 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 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…