Why Are We Like This? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May22_Post.mp3 Why do we defer to authorities? The answer to all these “why do we…” questions is the same. We’ll call this X. As in, why do we “X.” Anyhow, the simple answer to any “why do we X” question is once upon a time, there […]
Social Competitive Advantage
Nothing Is Easy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May21_Post.mp3 Most of everything is a competition. Nobody likes to hear that. But think of all the things you want, that are easily within your grasp. Things you don’t have, but can get relatively easily. When you choose, there is choice. And among all the choices, you […]
Love From Scratch
Copy Paste Monkey https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May15_Post.mp3 Humans can reverse engineer a lot of things. To see something, and then figure out how it works, and copy it. Businesses do this with each other all the time. And businesses keep other businesses from doing this all the time. Once, way back in the day, […]
Mayor Charisma
Who’s He? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May11_Post.mp3 A long time ago I was at this open house. A Japanese style Buddhist church. Not sure if “church” is the right word. But I checked it out, and it was a version of Buddhism invented by a Japanese couple (husband and wife) a few decades earlier. And […]
Self Sustaining Social Skills
Pump Priming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May10_Post.mp3 Some things, once you get them started, are relatively self-sustaining. Like if you need to prime a pump, once the water is flowing, it is self sustaining. But when the water stops flowing, you’ll need to prime it again. This is a function of fluid dynamics. Kind of […]
You Don’t Need Looks
Subconscious Beauty https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May06_Post.mp3 The halo effect is real. Scientifically verified. They send gorgeous people into job interviews. And tell them to give dumb sounding answers to the interview questions. They send normal people into job interviews. And coach them to give really thoughtful and thorough answers. But the pretty […]
Reject Rejection
Disconnected https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May05_Post.mp3 I recently watched an interesting series of lectures a few weeks ago. Based on the greatest trials of all time. The first was the trial of Socrates. The last was the famous O.J. Simpson trial. In between were some famous ones, like the Scopes Monkey Trial. Also, perhaps […]
Escape Insidious Cons
Big Business https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May04_Post.mp3 The path of any business is simple. And very repeatable. First, any business does ANYTHING they can to make a profit. So the money they get on the front end is more than the money they get on the back end. The next step is to scale up the […]
Bird Brain Chaos
Chaos Birds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr29_Post.mp3 A murmuration of starlings is a pretty cool thing. This when a hundred or so birds start to fly around in circles. Not really circles, but in a kind of relatively small space. Compared to the sky. Where the birds are making all these cool shapes that keep […]
Hobby Practice
Local Guitar Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr25_Post.mp3 Once a friend of mine and I were at this local bar. The bar was locally famous for the band that played there on weekends. Not so much the band, but the guitar player. He had a unique trait that made him very memorable, beyond his guitar playing […]
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