No Soup For You https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May02_Post.mp4 One of the more famous characters from Seinfeld is the “Soup Nazi.” Dude has some seriously delicious soup. His soup was SO popular, he didn’t need to advertise. Tons of people came for his delicious soup ONLY because of word of mouth. And because he always […]
Secret People Training Skills
Cooperating Species https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr17_Post.mp4 A fascinating subject in science is co-evolution. It’s when two completely unrelated species develop a kind of mutually beneficial, overlapping selfishness. The most common example is bees and flowers. Once upon a time (metaphorically) there were tons of different kinds of bees and tons of different kinds of flowers. […]
Make Them Crave You
Two Sides To Sales https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr15_Post.mp4 There are two ways to sell things to people. One is to come up with a compelling pitch. This is the way TV characters sell. Because TV characters are fictional, they can be VERY mesmerizing, charismatic, etc. But in real life, memorized pitches are not nearly […]
Your Massive Inheritance
Invent And Replicate https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr11_Post.mp4 Once, a long time ago, I was hanging out in this laboratory. A place I worked right after college. An engineer and myself were doing an experiment. We were using something called “protamine.” This was to counter the effects of heparin. Heparin is the natural anticoagulant […]
Unlock Your Ancient Super Powers
Intelligent Design? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr08_Post.mp4 Whoever made us humans put a lot of thought into it. God, aliens, biologically driven natural selection, whoever or whatever. They knew what we were doing. One thing that we have that no other living creatures has is language. Sure, plenty of other animals can transmit basic information […]
Custom Programmed Confirmation Bias
Deeper Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr02_Post.mp4 A common phrase from self help is: What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. This is essentially a description of our confirmation bias. What we think is true, our confirmation bias will point it out. Imagine that your confirmation bias is like a very loyal employee. Only […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
Math Sex Magic
Hey, Don’t I Know You? I ran into an old friend at a party the other night, and I almost didn’t recognize him. I remembered him as being really intelligent, and really introverted. He was a nice guy if you talked to him long enough to get to know him, and he seemed […]
Anti Anxiety Nightmare
Drugs There is a huge market for anti-anxiety drugs. Plenty of people suffer from social anxiety of one form or another, so if they could come up with a drug that would completely eliminate anxiety, that would be fantastic. But so far, most anti anxiety drugs work more or less like chemotherapy. […]
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