Products and Markets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May27_Post.mp4 In the world of markets, there are things called “evergreen” markets. Named after trees that are green all year round. These evergreen markets always have customers. And any product you create can always be sold to people in these markets. Other products are only sold around certain […]
Doppelganger Night Terror
Dangerous Inventor I have this neighbor that lives a few doors down. He’s incredibly intelligent, and retired in his mid forties because of a couple of patents he invented. He loves hobbies, building things, most of which would get him arrested if anybody knew about this. Instant Turkey https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun30Loop.mp4 His latest invention […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Collective Energy Use
Drafting Birds If you ever see a flock of birds flying, they’ll tend to draft off one another. This is an instinctive way to move much more efficiently as a group. It’s a technique that cyclists and truck drivers do. Predators and Parasites https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10Loop.mp4 One way to think of a predator is […]
Emergent Chaos
Ice Volcano There are these cool structures called ice volcanoes. They form where it’s cold enough for the ice to from on beaches. Eventually the waves will come into the beach under the large sheet of ice. If the ice sheet is big enough, it will create enough pressure for the water […]
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, […]
Inorganic Portal Destruction
Tech Advances We live in a time of massive technological advances. Some of the stuff that is coming in the near future is even better. Most of us would not enjoy living a thousand years ago with no electricity, no penicillin, and much shorter life expectancies. There is a troubling trend that […]
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