Hero Gadgets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr12_Post.mp4 James Bond is famous for having a lot of gadgets. So is Batman. All kinds of cool equipment that gives them an advantage. This kind of thing is cool because we like tools. One way to look at human history is all the different tools and gadgets we’ve […]
Windy Aliens
Always Angles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar14_Post.mp4 Why do they call newspaper articles “stories?” Because objective descriptions of events are pretty boring. And news companies, TV, online, etc., are businesses. Sure in some countries, they are funded by the state. Which makes them propaganda. Pure, blatant propaganda. But so long as you need […]
Walk Up Rocks
Rock Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar09_Post.mp4 Once a I went rock climbing with a friend. A long time ago. And climbs are rated kind of like Earthquakes. On a log scale. So a 6.0 climb is twice as hard as a 5.0 climb. And at the time, I felt comfortable on a 5.5 […]
The Elusive White Whale
Elusive Idea https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec19_Post.mp4 One idea that has been around for a long time is the “Great American Novel.” What is this idea? A story about people doing things, overcoming obstacles, going through their own individual character arcs. But in a way that is uniquely American. So far, there hasn’t been ONE […]
How To Take Brains Offline
Snap Out Of It! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov08_Post.mp4 There’s a common scene that used to be in the movies. Not so much any more, because if it were, it would be roundly criticized. The scene is when somebody starts to lose control. They’re in some kind of situation where everybody needs their wits. But […]
Profit From Human Nature
Not Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May29_Post.mp4 Humans love to believe in our own logical decision making. But in reality, most of us are driven by emotions. Unless you are making a tough decision about a big purchase, like a house, then your decisions are emotional. If we were purely logical, we wouldn’t have evolved. […]
Leverage Your Two Powerful Biases
Inside vs. Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May13_Post.mp4 Human nature is pretty simple from an engineering standpoint. Very simple. But looking out into the world through our subjective experience is very, very complicated. Or it SEEMS complicated. Part of this is our unique human ability of meta cognition. Thinking about thinking. Talking about […]
Leave Your Pavlovian Bell At Home
Nurture And Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12_Post.mp4 There are two general schools of thought about what makes us who we are as individuals. There’s the blank slate side of the spectrum. That our minds are completely programmable. That with the right training, we can be “programmed” to do pretty much anything our “programmers” want us […]
Bowling Ball Magic
Best Museum I went to this really amazing science museum once in Hong Kong. They had tons of floors, tons of rooms with tons of different science exhibits and interactive things in a bunch of different rooms. Like a gigantic mall, but every shop had something to do with science. There was […]
Blender Hallucinations
Home Depot Disaster I had a friend once in this class I took a couple of years ago at a community college. He told me a story about how he’d just seen the movie, “Jackass,” and was feeling inspired. So, he and a friend went into Home Depot and he took a dump […]
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