Float Like A Butterfly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr10_Post.mp4 I saw a clip online the other day. Of Muhammad Ali in one of his fights. He was standing in the corner, arms wide, holding the ropes on either side of him. Leaving himself absolutely wide open. The other guy took at least 10 swipes at […]
The Most Beautiful Sales Pitch
TV Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar20_Post.mp4 Halt and Catch Fire is a pretty good TV show. It’s a four season show that covers the rise of the PC and the Internet. It’s a fictionalized version, but it’s pretty accurate. The competition for the first PC, then the first couple search engines, then the first browsers. […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
One Mind Shift To Rule Them All
Two Kinds Of People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar07_Post.mp4 There are plenty of ways to look at things. Plenty of simple categories to put things into. Pretty people and non pretty people. Tall people and short people. Perhaps one of my favorites is the famous line at the end of “The Good, The Bad, and […]
Nano Bot Pranks
Long Game Prankster There was this semi evil genius that was also very rich, and he very much liked to prank people. He bought an eyeglasses company, and created a special type of lens with a lot of embedded nano technology. Then he would sit and home, and via this embedded nano technology, […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
Why Be Yourself Is Excellent Advice
Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Self Destructive Death Cult
Nested Dreams A couple of weeks ago I had one of those dreams that you’re having a dream and then you wake up and you think you’re finished having a dream but you’re still having the dream and then you wake up again and you realize you’ve been trapped in several nested dreams. Inside […]