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You are entering Yakov Feldman’s project: an attempt to build a working science of human beings, tasks, and groups.

The central idea is simple: a person reveals himself through tasks. If we learn to describe the person, the task, and the group in one shared language, we can better understand choice, cooperation, conflict, education, culture, and social development.

Who I Am

Yakov Feldman is an independent researcher and author.

My original background is in mathematics and programming. This is why my style of thinking is closer to models, structures, descriptive languages, and testable schemes than to literary philosophical essay writing.

I witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. When an epoch breaks, many hidden structures of life become visible: rules, groups, values, roles, fears, ways of choosing, and ways of understanding what is happening. This experience strongly shaped my view of human beings and society.

I have worked as both a programmer and a school teacher. Programming gave me skills for working with information, structures, and complex systems. Teaching gave me the opportunity to observe how children solve tasks, how their thinking develops, and how education can either support or block that development.

I am also a father and grandfather, and for many years I have observed the development of children and grandchildren not only through theory, but in living family reality.

My education has largely been independent: psychology, philosophy, history, and art. I do not belong to an academic school and I do not write from inside a single discipline. My position is external: I am trying to build a shared language for describing human beings, tasks, and groups.

What This Project Is About

I propose to rebuild the humanities according to the model of the natural sciences: to build models, perform thought experiments, derive predictions, and test them against reality.

At the center of the project are three models:

The person.
The task.
The group.

For them, we build maps: the Personality Map, the Task Map, and the Group Map. These maps make it possible not only to discuss people, tasks, and communities, but to make predictions: which tasks suit a person, with whom cooperation is possible, where conflict may arise, and which community will accept a person or reject him.

What Next

If you are interested in reading further, write to the author and leave your email address. He has many books and will direct you to the one that is right for you.

What To Expect

This is not academic philosophy in the usual sense, and it is not popular psychology. It is an author’s attempt to create a shared language for fields that usually exist separately: philosophy, psychology, education, sociology, political theory, and cultural theory.

My aim is a different philosophy, a different psychology, a different science of the human being.

And therefore, perhaps, a different life.